Participating organizations included faith-based social justice groups PICO California and the San Diego Organizing Project.
“What we’ve been seeing with the Trump administration’s family separation policies — and Jeff Sessions’ use of the Bible to defend them — is truly horrific,” Father Neal Jose Wilkinson of the San Diego Organizing Project said prior to the march. “Children do not belong in detention centers. They belong with their families.”
The march comes on the heels of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’ visit on Friday to the detention center.
It isn’t the first time the federal government has detained migrant children and families, however.
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