Politics
- Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policy took place in over 700 cities across the country on Saturday.
- Demonstrators called upon the Trump administration to reunite the immigrant families it separated, and to stop trying to detain asylum-seeking families.
- The marches came one day after hundreds of women were arrested after they occupied a Senate building to protest immigrant family separations by the US government.
Thousands marched on Saturday in over 700 rallies planned across the United States against President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
The flagship march, Families Belong Together, took place across the street from the White House in Washington, DC.
The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy led to the separation of thousands of families at the US-Mexico border, prompting critics such as the United Nations Human Rights chief to call it "government-sanctioned child abuse."
Though Trump signed an executive order last week halting the separations, the crisis is far from over. In recent days, lawyers and government officials have faced significant challenges in locating and reuniting the families of more than 2,000 children who were separated and sent to shelters and foster families across the country.
On top of its zero-tolerance policy, Trump administration is also overhauling the asylum process, restricting the amount of eligible asylum-seekers by disqualifying domestic or gang violence as qualifying factors in obtaining asylum.
Saturday's marches came one day after hundreds of women were arrested after they occupied a Senate building to protest family separations.