The caravan was the idea of Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Whinston spoke to a crowd of well-wishers at the temple Sunday night about why they’re going.
“This summer our nation roared,” says Whinston. “We cried out after seeing pictures of screaming children being ripped from their mothers’ arms. We were outraged after hearing stories of children lost by our government, of parents deported without understanding they may never see their children again.”
Whinston says the Trump administration has led people to believe the family separation policy has been rescinded, but he says it’s merely been supplanted by other means of keeping children from their families.
