What is happening now at the U.S.-Mexico border, where immigrant parents and children are being forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy is “not some foreign reality,” said Celeste Martinez.

“This is something that is happening now and that our country is deeply responsible for,” Martinez, an organizer with Together Colorado, told a crowd of about 200 during a rally outside of Park Hill United Methodist Church on Thursday evening.

“The ‘zero-tolerance’ policy will continue to militarize our border,” she added, as members of the crowd held signs and banners decrying the federal government’s enforcement tactics at the border. Together Colorado, along with other organizations including American Friends Service Committee and the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, led Thursday’s event— a short march just east of City Park from one church to another, where the group rallied for an hour.

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