Protest in DC Over Family Separation at Border

(13 Jun 2018) Democratic Congressional members along with activists marched through the streets of Washington Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's handling of undocumented immigrant children and families at the border. Federal officials approved separating parents from children earlier this year as part of a pilot program in the El Paso Border Patrol sector, which includes all of New Mexico. Democrats feel taking children away from parents is cruel. "The time is always right to protest what is right. It's a shame and a disgrace that our government has taken young children, even babies from their mothers," said Georgia Democrat, Rep. John Lewis. "It's not right. It's not fair. It's not just and history will not be kind to us as a nation and as a people." The protesters took their march to the entrance of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters, where they sat down blocking the doorway, in hopes of provoking arrests, but the police on hand kept watch, but did not get involved. Actor John Cusack who joined in the march said "we have fascism here, now in America and it doesn't go away, can't turn the channel and the fight is here, so we better be here." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...