Activists from around Vermont will join in nationwide protests against family separation outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Williston on Saturday, July 28, 2018, 10 am, they announced in a press release Monday. The Trump administration was ordered by a federal judge in California to reunite parents and children separated under its “zero-tolerance” policy within 30 days. That deadline is Thursday, July 26. As of Friday, July 20, the Trump administration had only reunited 364 of the 2,551 children separated from their parents.
“The US government, ICE and any other agency involved must be judged as abusive parents and held accountable for traumatizing/terrorizing innocent children. Their actions are abhorrent and immoral,” said Debra Stoleroff of the Plainfield Community Resistance subgroup.
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