{"id":8788,"date":"2018-07-13T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2018-07-13T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T17:40:11","slug":"hundreds-gather-throughout-valley-to-denounce-trump-zero-tolerance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8788","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Gather Throughout Valley to Denounce Trump Zero Tolerance Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rally participants protecting the separation of undocumented children from their parents.<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hundreds of people gathered during an event to denounce the Trump Administration\u2019s zero-policy and to put an end to the separation of undocumented Central American children from their parents.<\/p>\n

They met on Thursday, June 28 in Brownsville, at the city\u2019s Linear Park in front of the Reynaldo G. Garza & Filemon Vela Federal Court House.<\/p>\n

The protests were part of a nationwide call made by the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n

Many of the protesters came from throughout the Rio Grande Valley and from as far as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and from other U.S. cities.<\/p>\n

They chanted a number of slogans denouncing injustice, descrimination and inequality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to fight for those families who have been separated,\u201d Astrid Dominguez, with the Border of Texas ACLU. \u201cThe border is not alone. The mothers and children are not alone. We are all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isis Avalo, a woman from Brownsville who now lives in Los Angeles, said brown Tejanos are still looked at in an inhumane way.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur brown brothers and sisters continue to be discriminated against,\u201d he said. \u201cFamilies should be together, not separated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juanita Valdez, with a Valley-based organization called La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, shared the story of an El Salvador man who was separated from his son months ago and has not seen him since.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy suffers from a medical condition, she said, but the government has not attempted to reunite them.\u201d<\/p>\n

George and Diane McDiarmid said they live in Riverbend, a retiree community along Texas Highway 281 west of Brownville.<\/p>\n

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Some of the hundreds of people who participated in the Brownsville rally to denounce the Trump administration zero tolerance policy.<\/p><\/div>\n

They both said what the government has been doing is horrible.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a northerner, I believe family values should be taught at home,\u201d he said. \u201cI have never seen parents holding the hands of their children as people do here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis separation of children from their parents is against humanity,\u201d his wife said. \u201cIt\u2019s against everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the events went on, the crowd chanted slogans such as \u201cThe people united, should never be defeated. \u201c<\/p>\n

On Saturday, June 30, a second rally was held in front of the Border Patrol headquarters in McAllen with more than 200 people attending it as part of a nationwide action to protest the zero tolerance policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Hundreds of people gathered during an event to denounce the Trump Administration\u2019s zero-policy and to put an end to the separation of undocumented Central American children from their parents. They met on Thursday, June 28 in Brownsville, at the city\u2019s Linear Park in front of the Reynaldo G. Garza & Filemon Vela […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}