Thread: More than 700 anti-Trump protests planned across all 50 states

More than 700 anti-Trump protests planned across all 50 states

Mass events, spurred by immigration policy and supreme court, urge unity in trying times: ‘It’s not about red or blue’

Joanna Walters in New York
@Joannawalters13
Fri 29 Jun 2018 16.23 EDT Last modified on Fri 29 Jun 2018 17.56 EDT

Organizers of demonstrations expected to take place across all 50 states on Saturday are calling for Americans outraged by Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the prospect of a supreme court swinging sharply right to put aside party differences and protest with one voice.

“This is an all hands on deck, stop the madness moment. It’s not a red or blue thing,” the national protest organizer, Ai-jen Poo, told the Guardian.

More than 750 events are planned across the country on 30 June, under the slogan “Families belong together”, to protest against the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents in recent weeks after they crossed the border illegally under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown.

Poo said the protests were primarily for people who had been horrified at the news of the separations and detentions, but she said the cause would widen into a show of opposition against Trump’s travel ban, which targets five Muslim-majority countries and was upheld by the supreme court this week, as well as the threat of Trump nominating a hard-right conservative for the supreme court seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy.


Families divided at the border: 'The most horrific immigration policy I've ever seen'


“What you are seeing is the downright refusal to accept this administration’s policies,” she said.

With the Fourth of July holiday approaching “this is a time when we reflect on where we are as a country and, right now, what we are going to do to take it back as the multiracial democracy we know and deserve”, she added.

Most children have not yet been reunited with their parents despite the president halting the summary separation policy and a judge this week ordering the administration to reunite families.

The largest demonstration is planned for Washington DC, with many thousands expected to gather close to the White House, including Poo, who is a union leader and the director of the national domestic workers alliance, the Hamilton musical creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and other figures such as the actor and activist America Ferrera. There will be a rally addressed by a mother who was separated from her child by the border patrol. Mass protests are also expected in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and other big cities.

“But the beautiful thing about this day is that there are 10 events in Indiana, [vice-president] Mike Pence’s home state, protests in Lubbock, Texas, events in Alabama, rural Pennsylvania and many places like that,” Poo said.

This is a time when we reflect on where we are as a country

She dubbed the administration’s immigration policy “zero humanity” and “a moral atrocity” and said the main thrusts of Saturday’s events were to demand that families be reunited, call for an end to “zero tolerance” and an end to immigration detention, even where families are kept together.

Beyond the issue of family separations, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced earlier this month that domestic or gang violence, which is rife in many parts of Central America and Mexico, will no longer be regarded as valid reasons for seeking asylum in the US.

The union and the progressive advocacy body MoveOn are the principal organizers of Saturday’s events, along with more than 150 smaller groups across the country.

On Capitol Hill Thursday, hundreds of activists, including actress Susan Sarandon, center left, and Linda Sarsour, center, challenged the separation of families. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

The Women’s March is also an event partner, and its organizer Linda Sarsour is taking part in the planned event in LA, fresh from rallying a mass sit-in over immigration at a US Senate building in Washington on Thursday, at which about 600 women were arrested.

“We need a combination of direct action, mass mobilization and electoral power,” she told the Guardian.


Susan Sarandon arrested at anti-Trump protest

Sarsour said plans for the demonstrations on Saturday had been given new impetus by the news last week that the supreme court had upheld Trump’s travel ban. That news was quickly followed by the announcement that Anthony Kennedy will retire, and is set to be replaced by a conservative, which presages heightened threats to legal abortion and to workers, gay rights and immigration rights.

“I think news of the Kennedy retirement really shook people up,” she said.

Asked if she thought many Trump voters might regret their choice as Republican politics shift further right, she said: “Absolutely.”

“There’s an element of the GOP who are pro-choice women, and moderates who support marriage equality and who realize that on immigration issues, the supreme court will take us back years. The travel ban is rooted in Islamophobia, which the president himself spread during the election campaign,” she said.

She urged maximum “grassroots energy” at Saturday’s protests, and throughout the summer and fall. “This administration is not to be trusted,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ons-roe-v-wade

Unfortunately, normal people across the states have real jobs and family to take care of with no free time on our hands to go out protesting looking like a bunch of idiots.

• BREAKING NEWS
• Hundreds of thousands rally across US for illegal immigrant families separated at border
• 
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people flooded streets in hundreds of cities across the country on Saturday to press President Donald Trump’s administration to reunite children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  More on this
• For more news, please go to FoxNews.comand watch Fox News Channel.

The 1986 amnesty and not fully enforcing immigration laws for three decades leads us to this day. Lack of extreme vetting, the diversity visa lottery, chain migration has brought us to this day. Allowing the numbers of invading foreign citizens illegally here to grow towards thirty million, not including the anchor baby children who most likely possess the same disregard for American laws on immigration, has brought us to this day. Government and lawmakers who have reoeatedly failed to do their jobs, who fail to represent the lives of American citizens have brought us to this day.

The far left, social justice demonstrations and protests will continue as attempts to enforce immigration laws increase and the media pushes the activists' messages. It is disheartening to see and to hear so many in opposition to protecting the United States and her citizens from this invasion.

"America First" means secure borders and American lives and jobs are the priority. Help others in their home countries and demand other governments take actions to assist their people to stop this. They want to send their least desirable, the criminals, those who threaten their governments with change.

Aid should be stopped if this doesn't stop immediately. President Trump says we are not the world's piggy bank. He needs to stop the theft. Mexico is a facilitator to all of this. "Reconquista" through numbers.

KEEP THE FAMILIES TOGETHER...ON A BUS...BACK HOME!

NO ASYLUM AT PORTS OF ENTRY

THEY MUST APPLY AT COUSULATE ON THEIR SOIL WHERE THEY CAN BE VETTED AND MEDICAL EXAM PRIOR TO COMING HERE!

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Aid should be stopped if this doesn't stop immediately. President Trump says we are not the world's piggy bank. He needs to stop the theft. Mexico is a facilitator to all of this. "Reconquista" through numbers.

I keep seeing reports like the one below, but I don't see any action.

President Trump is now threatening to cut foreign aid to Honduras and other countries unless a large group of Central American migrants are blocked from entering the U.S.
The president has been tweeting about a so-called caravan of more than 1,000 migrants, many of whom plan to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and seek asylum. Trump says the caravan "better be stopped before it gets there." He threatened foreign aid spending and U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, if it wasn't.
-----------
says he wants to cut off aid to Central American countries that he claimed Tuesday are 'sending' migrantsto the U.S.
asking for authorization to end assistance to the region that includes Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
'We're not going to give any more aid to those countries,' he asserted during a Washington, D.C. speech to the National Federation of Independent Business. 'Why the hell should we?'
--------------------
There is another important one I remember, but now I can't find. It was at a meeting with DHS, and he said he would cut aid to countries who were refusing to take their illegals back. I believe he even said he would be doing this in the next couple days. I never saw any more about it. Does anyone remember? or can point me in the direction of finding it.

A good time to detain and deport a whole bunch of illegals, now that they'll be gathered up in certain spots.

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

. . . There is another important one I remember, but now I can't find. It was at a meeting with DHS, and he said he would cut aid to countries who were refusing to take their illegals back. I believe he even said he would be doing this in the next couple days. I never saw any more about it. Does anyone remember? or can point me in the direction of finding it.

Trump Threatens Aid Cut If Countries Won't Take Deportees - NBC ...
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/.../Trump-Threatens-Aid-Cut-If-Countries-Wont-Take...
Feb 2, 2018 - President Donald Trump threatened Friday to cut off aid and slap sanctions on ... "If they don't take 'em back, we'll put sanctions on the countries, we'll put tariffs on the .... Trump says Democrats "can't even approve citizenship.
------------------------------------------

Trump Administration Punishes Countries That Refuse to Take Back ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/politics/visa-sanctions-criminal-convicts.html
Sep 13, 2017 - Countries refusing to take back immigrants who were ordered removed ... to suspend visas from countries that refused to take back their citizens.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

The 1986 amnesty and not fully enforcing immigration laws for three decades leads us to this day. . .

If the Federal Government had controlled the border, as they are required to do, City, County, State, and Federal Government Agencies wouldn't now have to deal with millions of illegal aliens all over the country.

CUT OFF THE FOREIGN AID NOW PRESIDENT TRUMP!

NO ASYLUM FOR MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA!

PUT THEM ON THE TRAVEL BAN!