“We are here today to ask congress to pressure the administration to do everything in their power to make sure families are not only together, but free.”

“I think the worst thing you can do to a child, as an immigrant, is to separate them from their families,” added Lorenzo Morales, Richard’s ten-year-old son.

Richard Morales also told News2Share that Trump’s executive order to keep families together doesn’t go far enough. “It’s not sufficient. What he needs to do is end the zero-tolerance policy,” he said. He explained that if convicted of entering the country illegally, a migrant family would still be separated.

Rev. Dr. Robert M. Hardies of All Souls Church Unitarian explained that he found comments by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the subject to be a travesty.

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