Families Belong Together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes.  Today.  Across the nation, people marched.  In opposition to the Trump administration's decision to separate children from their parents at our border.  They were separated before we could even determine if the families were here with legitimate claims for asylum or not.  And even if we found that they should return to their countries of origin, are we a people who take children from their parents?????  I don't think so ~ and millions of other Americans don't either!

Here is a link to one report on the thoughts of a nation:  Here Are The Best ‘Families Belong Together’ March Signs - article from Huff Post  As their lead in says, "Toddlers shouldn't be in jail!"

B and an amazing group of human rights advocates did double duty...marching yesterday AND today!!

Today...amazing peeps from Chattanooga gathered....

And....yes.  We marched.  
I helped lead with B working to bring up the rear.  Thanks guys!!  It is a comfort to meet such a wonderful group of peeps - walking in the heat - on behalf of those who cannot.

Unless you are a native American - I'm Irish/German, B is Scotch/Russian - like us, your peeps were immigrants to the great nation that is America.  The Statue of Liberty welcomed my ancestors as she did yours.  Recent immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador are not here to game the system, do us harm, or "take our jobs".  Rather, immigrants clean things, pick things, and work in conditions that most Americans will not!!!  To the contrary, these immigrants are fleeing circumstances we cannot imagine.  They are leaving their HOME!!!  They are leaving their FAMILY!!!  They are desperate to provide a better life for themselves and their children.  Most undergo what we would consider intolerable circumstances for over a month, just to make it to our border.  There, they ask for asylum.  Something they have the legal right to do.  Still...they are jailed and their children, more than 2,500 of them, have been removed from their parents.  Is this who we are???  Is this what we want our government to do?  Is this how you would want your brother, your sister, your children - treated?

We don't think so.  So we march.  And more importantly - VOTE!!!
Love trumps hate! - c