Immigrant minor distraught over family separation is prescribed antidepressants in U.S. shelter, lawsuit alleges
Federal suit claims violations of minors’ constitutional rights, saying the government is causing “grave harm to children detained for alleged civil violations” of crossing the border. Lucas R. is the pseudonym that attorneys assigned to the 12-year-old from Guatemala detained in February.In his case, the suit alleges the boy was placed in Hacienda del Sol, a shelter in Arizona run by the government contractor Southwest Key. When he first arrived, the lawsuit says, staff noted that Lucas “appeared cooperative, calm, and alert, and showed ‘no behavioral concerns.
“ WOMP , WOMP !” The man was parroting former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who had uttered the same sound on Fox News several days earlier After he had disrupted the first half of Holder-Joffrion’s prayer, a few protesters began drifting away from the audience to confront the man .
Womp womp !" The man was obviously parroting former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who had uttered the same sound on Fox After he had disrupted the first half of Ms Holder-Joffrion's prayer, a few protesters began drifting away from the audience to confront the man .
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Buena Ventura Martin-Godinez hugs her daughter Janne after being reunited at Miami International Airport on July 1. Martin crossed the border into the United States from Mexico in May with her son, fleeing violence in Guatemala. Her husband crossed two weeks later with their 7-year-old daughter Janne. All were caught by the Border Patrol, and were separated. Her daughter was released on July 1 from a child welfare agency in Michigan.
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Demonstrators attend a march and rally on June 30 outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Los Angeles, California against the separation of immigrant families.
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People protest outside a Border Patrol office during a rally in McAllen, Texas, on June 30.
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Lidia Karine Souza and her son Diogo De Olivera Filho talk at lunch as a woman and child walk by during their first full day together on June 29 in Chicago.
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An undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, who gave his name as Mario, weeps as he tells the story of his daughter and wife being separated and detained at the border as they attempted to join him in the U.S. to demonstrators during a rally on June 29 in Washington.
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A Honduran woman embraces her 2-year-old daughter as they wait on the Mexican side of the Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge after being denied entry into the U.S. on June 28 near Brownsville, Texas.
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Actor Susan Sarandon walks to be arrested as she joined demonstrators calling for "an end to family detention" and in opposition to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 28.
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Actress Susan Sarandon joins with other women and immigration activists while rallying inside the Hart Senate Office Building after marching to Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 28.
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Jay Ellis speaks with demonstrators at a rally against the Trump administration's immigration policies at Linear Park near the federal courthouse on June 28 in Brownsville, Texas.
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Hundreds of women crowd the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building to protest Trumps immigration policy on June 28. Capitol Police moved in to make arrests to clear the area.
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Eleanor Chavez, left, Marlene Perrotte, center, and Susan Schuurman, right, are arrested by New Mexico State Police at the Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., on June 28. Protesters from faith-based groups gathered to condemn Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's support for federal immigration policies and ignored requests to leave as the building was closed to visitors. Martinez was traveling in Taiwan.
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Women hold a sign that says "we demand end zero tolerance policy," in a hallway overlooking the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building during a protest of the separation of immigrant families on June 28 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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A State Police officer talks with Samia Assed, chairwoman of the New Mexico Women's March, as protesters from faith-based groups gathered on June 28 in Santa Fe, N.M., inside the state Capitol to condemn Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's support for federal immigration policies.
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Demonstrators rally against the Trump administration's immigration policies across from the federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, on June 28. Despite the Trump administration ending the zero-tolerance policy toward immigration, demonstrators called for separated families to be reunited and protested the detention of children and families seeking asylum at the border.
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Arnovis Guido is comforted by a friend after being reunited with his daughter Maybelline Guido at the Mons. Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador on June 28. Arnovis was deported from the U.S. without his six-year-old daughter Maybelline, and was reunited when she returned to El Salvador from the U.S.
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A detained immigrant child watches a cartoon while awaiting the arrival of U.S. first lady Melania Trump with other young detained immigrants at a U.S Customs and Border patrol immigration detainee processing facility on June 28, in Tucson, Ariz.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cheers on demonstrators calling for "an end to family detention" and in opposition to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, as they are arrested by U.S. Capitol Police at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 28, in Washington.
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U.S. first lady Melania Trump speaks with Southwest Key Programs Associate Vice President Geraldo Gabriel Rivera (L) and Alexia Jo Rodriguez (R) during a roundtable discussion at the Southwest Key Programs Campbell immigration detention facility for children run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on June 28, in Phoenix.
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First lady Melania Trump talks with Rodolfo Karisch, Chief Patrol Agent, Tucson Sector Border Patrol, as she visits a U.S. Customs border and protection facility on June 28 in Tucson, Ariz.
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Melania Trump arrives at Davis Monthan Air Force Base on June 28 en route to a U.S. Customs border and protection facility in Tucson, Ariz.
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Immigrant families walk to a respite center after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 27, in McAllen, Texas.
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Clergy with Women of Faith pray and sing as they show support for detained immigrants outside of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol processing center on June 27, in McAllen, Texas.
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During an interview with The Associated Press on June 27, in Evanston, Illinois, immigrant Lidia Karine Souza, who is seeking asylum from Brazil, talks about the ordeal she has lived in searching for and finally seeing her son. It took Souza weeks to find Diogo after he was taken from her at the Texas border in late May and sent by the government to a Chicago shelter. An emergency hearing is scheduled Thursday morning in which Souza's attorneys, including those from the law offices of Jeff Goldman Immigration in Boston, will argue that the government is imposing unlawful requirements for the reunification of parents with their children.
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Clergy with Women of Faith pray for a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent outside of a processing center on June 27 in McAllen, Texas. The group traveled to McAllen to pray for detained immigrants.
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Young people participate in a CASA in Action protest organized to protest the Trump Administration zero tolerance policy that separates children from their families at the southern border on June 27.
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A young boy participates in a CASA in Action rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., organized to protest the Trump Administration zero tolerance policy that separates children from their families at the southern border on June 27.
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A young girl participates in a CASA in Action rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., organized to protest the Trump Administration zero tolerance policy that separates children from their families at the southern border on June 27.
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A girl wears a jacket that references First Lady Melania Trump's jacket during a CASA in Action rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., on June 27.
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A young boy participates in a CASA in Action rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., organized to protest the Trump Administration zero tolerance policy that separates children from their families at the southern border on June 27.
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People hold placards during a protest against President Trump's immigration policies on June 26 in New York City.
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People protest against President Trump's immigration policies on June 26 in New York City.
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People protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration policies in New York City, U.S., June 26, 2018.
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Children perform inside a simulated cage beside a placard in reference to U.S. first lady Melania Trump during a protest against U.S. immigration policies outside the U.S. embassy on June 26, in Mexico City.
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A Honduran family seeking asylum waits on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge after being denied entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near Brownsville on June 26, in Texas.
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Randi Weingarten is turned away after trying to deliver a teddy bear and other items for children to federal agents at the port-of-entry on June 26, in Fabens, Texas, along the international border where immigrant children are being held.
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Seth Kapler Dan (C), Pastor at the Reform Church of Highland Park, speaks about ICE raids on immigrants outside the Supreme Court as the judges weigh their final decisions of the year in Washington, DC on 26 June.
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Caitlin Sanger, of Franklin Park, N.J., pauses to cry as she speaks to media outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 26, as she speaks about her father being detained by ICE and protests immigrant families being split up.
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Ruben Garcia (C), director of the Annunciation House, speaks on a cell phone with a person from the Office of Refugee Resettlement as he sits with Josue(L), who migrated from Guatemala, and Miriam (R), who migrated from Honduras, both of whom didn't want to provide their last names, as they try to track down their children after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody on June 25, in El Paso, Texas. Cristian and Miriam are part of a group of 32 parents that arrived at the Annunciation House migrant shelter as they wait to be reunited with their children.
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A Honduran child and her mother, fleeing poverty and violence in their home country, waits along the border bridge after being denied entry from Mexico into the U.S. on June 25, in Brownsville, Texas.
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An entrance to Fort Bliss is shown as reports indicate the military will begin to construct temporary housing for mmigrants on June 25, in Fort Bliss, Texas. The reports say that the Trump administration will use Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base to house detained migrants as they are processed through the legal system.
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A child looks through the window of a bus carrying migrants near McAllen Detention Facility, McAllen, Texas, the U.S., June 23, in this photo obtained from social media.
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A woman protesting the detainment of undocumented immigrant children wears a jacket referencing Melania Trump during a demonstration outside a U.S. Border Patrol processing center on June 25 in McAllen, Texas.
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Medical facilities are seen at the Tornillo facility, a shelter for children of detained migrants on June 25 in Tornillo, Texas.
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A Department of Homeland Security officer passes by members of Occupy ICE, a group set on disrupting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, outside the ICE offices on June 25 in New York City.
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Food preparation is seen at the Tornillo facility, a shelter for children of detained migrants on June 25 in Tornillo, Texas.
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Jerry Martinez sings the national anthem before a demonstration against the detainment of undocumented immigrant children, outside a U.S. Border Patrol processing center on June 25 in McAllen, Texas.
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A Honduran family seeking asylum wakes up on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge after spending the night there because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers denied them entry near Brownsville, Texas, on June 25.
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Visitors wait to enter the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Trump v. Hawaii case regarding travel restrictions in the U.S. remains pending, in Washington on June 25.
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Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., discusses his visit to inspect a shelter in Homestead, Fla., this weekend that houses children forcibly taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on June 25.
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The Tornillo facility, a shelter for children of detained migrants, in Tornillo, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, obtained by Reuters June 25.
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A security guard checks cars at the entrance to Casa Padre, a former Walmart which is now a center for unaccompanied immigrant children on June 24 in Brownsville, Texas.
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Participants sit on the steps of Blessed Sacrament Church building in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston during a rally protesting the separation of migrant families along the U.S.-Mexico border on June 24.
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Ruben Garcia, director of the Annunciation House, (R) greets migrant parents, all of whom were separated from their children by U.S Customs and Border Patrol, as they arrive at the Annunciation House migrant shelter after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody on June 24, in El Paso, Texas. The 32 parents that arrived had faced charges for illegal entry into the United States and will continue with the legal process as they wait to be reunited with their children.
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Leon Blevins, dressed as Uncle Sam, salutes other attendees during the "End Family Detention" event held at the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 24.
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Guatemalan asylum seeker Ruben Prado (C) waits on the Mexican side of the Gateway International Bridge after being denied entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near Brownsville, Texas, on June 24.
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Activists hold a decorated parachute during the "End Family Detention" event held at the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 24.
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Suki Castillo Ramos, from Socorro, Texas, is pictured during a prayer at the "End Family Detention" event held at the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 24, "We just need to put ourselves in their shoes," Ramos said, referring to the plight of asylum seekers from Central America.
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Actress Suzanne Mayes holds a sign "I Care," referencing the jacket worn by first lady Melania Trump, as she joins a group of immigrant rights protesters collecting donated toys outside the Los Angeles Federal building, to be delivered to the children of separating immigrant families caught on the southwest border near San Diego, California on June 23. In recent weeks, more than 2,300 children were taken from their families under a "zero-tolerance" policy in which people entering the U.S. illegally face prosecution. While the family separations were ended, confusion has ensued, with parents left searching for their children.
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A Trump supporter screams at protesters during a march to Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on June 23 in Florida.
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Migrant boys spend time in a recreation area outside Casa Padre, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, on June 23 in Brownsville, Texas.
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Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif. (center), is joined by other members of Congress as she speaks after the group toured the U.S. Border Patrol Central Processing Center on June 23 in McAllen, Texas. Over 2,000 children were taken from their families in recent weeks under a Trump administration "zero tolerance" policy in which people entering the U.S. illegally face being prosecuted. Parents and children were being detained separately. But after public outcry, President Donald Trump ordered that they be brought back together.
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Demonstrators block a bus with immigrant children onboard during a protest outside the U.S. Border Patrol Central Processing Center on June 23 in McAllen, Texas. Extra law enforcement officials were called in to help control the scene and allow the bus to move.
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Protesters against the Trump administration's border policies wave and blow kisses to migrant children on a bus at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Detention Center on June 23 in McAllen, Texas. Dozens of protesters blocked the bus from leaving the center resulting in scuffles with police and Border Patrol agents before the bus retreated back to the center. Before President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halts the practice of separating families who were seeking asylum, over 2,300 immigrant children had been separated from their parents in the "zero-tolerance" policy for border crossers.
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Doctors, nurses, medical students hold up posters on June 23 at the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, to demand quick reunification of the some 2,700 children with their families. The Trump administration's erecting of a tent city to house minors separated from their parents has drawn sharp criticism, and is still under fire, despite President Trump's executive order to stop family separation.
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(Left to right) Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) are briefed by a Department of Homeland Security police officer before touring a tent encampment near the Tornillo-Guadalupe Port of Entry on June 23 in Tornillo, Texas. A tent facility was recently built next to the Tornillo-Guadalupe port of entry to house immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.
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Undocumented immigrant families look on as they are released from detention at a bus depot on June 22 in McAllen, Texas.
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An undocumented immigrant family is released from detention at a bus depot on June 22 in McAllen, Texas.
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Immigrant children run around a track outside at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a former Job Corps site that now houses them on June 22 in Florida.
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Activists hold a bullhorn and signs during a protest outside the White House on June 22 in Washington. Members of American Civil Liberties Union staged a protest and broadcasted recording of children in detention centers obtained by ProPublica.
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Men carry shackles to put on undocumented immigrants following hearings at a U.S. federal court on June 22 in McAllen, Texas.
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Minors deported from Mexico get off a bus at an immigration facility on June 22 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Deportees get off a bus at an immigration facility after a flight carrying illegal immigrants from the U.S. arrived on June 22 in San Salvador, El Salvado.
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Deportees wait to be processed at an immigration facility after a flight carrying illegal immigrants from the U.S. arrived on June 22 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Mexican residents wait to make the daily crossing into the American border city of Brownsville, Texas.
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President Donald Trump speaks about immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants on the White House complex on June 22 in Washington.
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Darwin Micheal Mejia and his mother, Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia, second from back left, leave a news conference following their reunion at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on June 22 in Linthicum, Md.
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Jennifer Chevarria talks to her son, Jayden, 2, both immigrants from Nicaragua, as they wait inside the Catholic Charities RGV on June 21 in McAllen, Texas. They were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection yesterday and are waiting to travel to San Francisco to stay with relatives.
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Children wrap themselves up with Mylar blankets to 'symbolically represent the thousands of children separated from families on the border, sleeping on floors and held in cages', during a protest at the rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building on June 21 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Activists staged a demonstration to protest the Trump Administration's policy to separate migrant families at the southern border.
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U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) speaks at a protest against the Trump administration's immigration policy that results in the separation of children from their parents at the southern border of the U.S. outside of the White House on June 21 in Washington.
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Immigrants from Guatemala seeking asylum look over travel packets as they wait at the bus station after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 21 in McAllen, Texas. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end family separations at the border.
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(Left to right) U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) listen during a "shadow hearing" before the Democratic Women's Working Group (DWWG) on June 21 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The hearing addressed immigration and family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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New York Mayor Bill De Blasio speaks to a federal officer through a chain linked fence asking for access to the children's tent encampment built to deal with the Trump administrations "zero tolerance" policy on June 21 in Tornillo, Texas.
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Migrants walk towards El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, in the boder with the United States on June 21.
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Deborah Berenice Vasquez-Barrios, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala (center), her son Kenner, 10, and actress and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon (second from right), sing at the St. Paul & St. Andrew Methodist Church in New York on June 21. New Sanctuary Coalition held the press conference to announce that Vasquez-Barrios, and the youngest of her two children, will take sanctuary in the church on the Upper West Side of New York.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton joins other members of an interfaith delegation of 40 religious leaders as they hold a news conference before visiting the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Centralized Processing Center on June 21 in McAllen, Texas. The group had demanded that the Trump administration immediately end the policy of separating families seeking asylum at the nation's borders. Before Trump signed an executive order that the administration says ends the practice, more than 2,300 immigrant children had been separated from their parents in the zero-tolerance policy for border crossers.
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A man takes part in a protest against US immigration policies outside the US embassy on June 21 in Mexico City.
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Children, with their faces covered with masks, leave the Cayuga Center, which provides foster care and other services to immigrant children separated from their families, on June 21 in New York.
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Shane Ryan Sealy appeared in court on Monday on misdemeanor charges.Credit Madison County Jail.
Before the shoving match, Sealy shouted “ womp womp ” as a local pastor spoke from a gazebo at Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, according to videos of “I didn’t know he had a gun at that point.” There was heavy police presence around the perimeter of the park during the rally and officers converged on
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A room is shown at the Lutheran Social Services of the South "Upbring New Hope Children's Center," which first lady Melania Trump toured near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, on June 21.
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Melania Trump tours the Lutheran Social Services of the South "Upbring New Hope Children's Center" near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen Texas, on June 21.
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Melania Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with doctors and social workers at the Upbring New Hope Childrens Center operated by Lutheran Social Services of the South and contracted with the Department of Health and Human Services June 21 in McAllen, Texas. The first lady traveled to Texas to see the treatment that migrant children taken from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border are receiving from the federal government.
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Melania Trump arrives to meet with doctors and social workers at the Upbring New Hope Childrens Center operated by Lutheran Social Services of the South on June 21 in McAllen, Texas.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials attempted to rebut claims that they have been separating families at border ports of entry, saying Monday that the agency split only seven families out of 5,298 who presented themselves at legal international checkpoints from May to June. Police clear the area after removing protesters from blocking the loading dock of a Department of Homeland Security U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) office in Philadelphia on July 3.
34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy - pushed one of the protesters . The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Alabama, was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
Man Who Yelled ' Womp Womp ' to Disrupt Immigration Protest Arrested for Pulling Gun on One protester can be heard shouting “ Gun ! Gun !” in video of the incident as others dropped to the So: A grown man with a gun terrorized a 10-year-old girl out of exercising her right to speak out against the
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Activists shout towards the US Mission to the United Nations while rallying in support immigrants and to mark World Refugee Day in New York City. Bowing to political pressure from both parties, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 20 ending his administration's policy of separating families along the southern border. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents at the border as a result of the Trump administration's 'zero-tolerance' illegal immigration policy.
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Migrant families from Mexico, fleeing from violence, listen to officers of the US Customs and Border Protection before entering the United States to apply for asylum at Paso del Norte international border crossing bridge on June 20 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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Ana Henriquez poses for a picture while holding a photograph of her granddaughter Alison Valencia, who was detained along with her mother and then separated when they arrived in the US, on June 20 in Armenia, El Salvador.
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People rally inside the Statehouse on June 20 in Boston, to protest how immigrants are being treated both on the border with Mexico and in Massachusetts.
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Activists rally outside of Trump World Tower to support immigrants and to mark World Refugee Day, on June 20 in New York City.
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Donald Trump displays an executive order on immigration policy after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House, on June 20.
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A man was arrested after he pulled a gun on pro- immigration demonstrators during a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, according to AL.com. The man , Shane Ryan Sealy, had been shouting " womp , womp " at supporters of the rally.
With a gun tucked into the waistband of his pants, Shane Ryan Sealy shouted “ womp womp ” and carried a sign that said “ICE ICE baby” as he walked in front of protesters gathered in Huntsville, Alabama, part of a nationwide series of marches on Saturday against the Trump administration’s
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Donald Trump talks to the news media after signing an executive order on immigration policy with DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence at his sides in the Oval Office on June 20, in Washington D.C.
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Immigration advocates from the Border Network for Human Rights, along with children, march past a U.S. Immigration center as they protest the administration's "zero tolerance policy" on immigration in El Paso, Texas, on June 19.
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Rev. Al Sharpton holds a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol to call on the Trump administration to stop separating children from their families at the U.S. border in Washington, on June 19.
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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas.
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The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday’s nationwide protests against President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
It began around noon, as an Episcopal priest delivered a prayer to about 100 protesters gathered around the gazebo and a man marched back and forth in front of her, shouting “womp, womp!”
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“Holy and ever-loving God . . .” said the priest, Kerry Holder-Joffrion.
“Womp, womp!” said the man.
“We pray for the children of this nation and all nations . . .”
“WOMP, WOMP!”
The man was parroting former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who had uttered the same sound on Fox News several days earlier during a discussion about migrant children being seized from their parents at the border. Lewandowski’s sarcastic “womp, womp” revolted many people — but also apparently inspired a certain segment of Trump’s supporters, as the people at Big Spring Park were now discovering.
“We offer your love to all of our children . . .” Holder-Joffrion continued.
“Womp, womp!”
This was not the man’s only message. He held a sign above his head on which was written “ICE ICE Baby,” and he occasionally shout-sang the notes of a hip-hop song by the same name over the prayer.
The man had a handgun tucked in his cargo pants, according to police.
After he had disrupted the first half of Holder-Joffrion’s prayer, a few protesters began drifting away from the audience to confront the man. A woman paced backward in front of him, holding her own sign in his face as he marched forward — “Super Callous Racist Fascist Sexist Braggadocious.”
“Where are your ancestors from?” someone asked the man.
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“Alabama!” he answered.
Holder-Joffrion felt her stomach tighten but made up her mind to finish the prayer.
“I didn’t open my eyes, so that I could stay focused,” she told The Washington Post. “My voice gained volume as it became more chaotic.”
In fact, she nearly shouted her remaining verses, cheered on by the crowd while the man continued to shout in the background.
“We ask that you give us the strength in the face of the opposition not to hate, but to love,” Holder-Joffrion said, the lines coming to her in the moment. “Prayer is stronger than hatred!”
It was around this point that the gun came out.
A Huntsville police spokesman said the man — identified as 34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy — pushed one of the protesters, who pushed him back and knocked him to the ground, at which point Sealy allegedly produced the weapon.
Holder-Joffrion still had her eyes closed, and she said her husband, Democratic congressional candidate Peter Joffrion, didn’t see a scuffle — just a protester telling Sealy to “leave, leave, leave, leave.”
In any case, the weapon came out of the waistband.
“Gun, gun, gun, gun!” someone shouted in video published by WAFF 48 — just as Holder-Joffrion was praying for the nation’s strength.
Panicked shouts drowned her out, and the camera turned from the priest to Sealy, about 15 feet from the gazebo, brandishing what appeared to be a pistol at the crowd.
Most people dropped. “I got down on my face on the other side of the gazebo right here and just cried, I was so in shock,” rally organizer Ava Caldwell told WBTV.
But several protesters remained upright. One man pointed directly at Sealy, shouting warnings that the man was armed.
Holder-Joffrion said she remained standing under the gazebo, eyes still shut in concentration, determined to finish her prayer no matter what happened.
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The video shows Sealy putting the gun back in his waistband and backing away from the crowd, then turning around and walking quickly in the opposite direction.
Of the few protesters who followed him, most did so with obvious caution — one man still holding his “Brown People Are Still People” sign as he watched Sealy go.
But a white-haired man nearly sprinted in pursuit, tossing his cap to the ground as he chased Sealy toward a tree line.
Sealy didn’t make it that far. A police cruiser soon rolled across the grass to meet him, and then a second car approached from his left.
© Provided by WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post He put his hands up, still holding his “ICE ICE Baby” sign. A former high school teacher, according to AL.com, he was initially arrested for possessing a gun within 1,000 feet of a protest. But he would later be booked into jail on misdemeanor charges of menacing and reckless endangerment.
Holder-Joffrion had her eyes closed through most of the action. She said she remained under the gazebo, continuing her prayer through to “Amen.”
When she finally opened her eyes, she looked across the park and saw about half a dozen police officers standing over Sealy.
“I realized they’d been among us in the crowd all along,” she said.
All around her, people were shaking, crying and getting up from the ground. A young girl who had been scheduled to speak later in the rally was too traumatized to get the words out, Holder-Joffrion said.
Still, the protest went on. Holder-Joffrion said a pastor delivered a second prayer immediately after hers — this one in Spanish.
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U.S. seeks to reunite more young immigrants as new deadline looms .
<p>A day after dozens of parents were reunited with children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by immigration officials, the U.S. government faces a looming deadline to match another roughly 2,000 children with parents. The struggle to track and match parents with children under five suggests meeting a July 26 deadline for reuniting the remaining older children could be fraught with problems.</p>
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