During Mother’s Day yesterday, advocates in 24 cities across the nation took time out of their holiday to protest Trump’s family separation policy and reflect on all the mothers and children who are forced to be apart.
“Today is not a good day, because I think of all the mothers who are in detention,” said Ingrid, an immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 19 years and who attended the rally in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
Small crowds of protesters showed up everywhere from Florida to Texas to New Hampshire and Minnesota. The event was organized by the Alliance for Family Reunification, Military Families for Families, Immigrant Justice Now and other coalition partners, some braving wind and rain to brandish signs with a #MotherOfExiles hashtag. The groups also asked allies to have conversations with friends and family members about family separation and detention, and what can be done to help stop them.
See just a few of the photos and tweets from yesterday below. Also check out a livestream of the Washington, D.C. event from Credo Mobile:
Mothers call for an end to family separation and detention
WATCH LIVE: Mothers are standing arm-in-arm in D.C. and across the country today demanding that the Trump-Miller administration stop separating and detaining immigrant families and children. #EndFamilyDetention #MotherOfExiles #UntilEveryFamilyIsReunited
由 America's Voice 发布于 2019年5月12日周日
To the thousand+ immigrant children imprisoned for profit at #Homestead FL detention facility: I do not know you, but you are my child now. I will never stop fighting for you. #MothersDay #motherofexiles #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.com/NUbJY0I5LG
— New Colossus (@New_Colossus_) May 13, 2019
Mother’s Day Rally Milford NH We will not be silent. We stand together to shed light on these inhumane policies of separating families and child detention. #nhpoliltics #MotherofExiles #KeepFamiliesTogether #homestead#freethem #familiesbelongtogether #HomesInstead pic.twitter.com/BdyvyN6tFO
— Cheri K Falk (@cheri_falk) May 12, 2019
@DebbieforFL Thank you! @TornilloWitness #Homestead #Florida #HomesInstead #MotherofExiles pic.twitter.com/af5FDN958o
— #DontSeparateFamiliesBKLYN (@DSFBKLYN) May 7, 2019
#htt#WitnessTornillo#TargetHomestead#MotherOfExiles#MothersDay2019 pic.twitter.com/4GsbtN0oLV
— mdunn (@medunn80) May 13, 2019
#MotherofExiles Mother’s Day Vigil to End Child Separation and Family Detention. Albany, NY pic.twitter.com/gJDfEIAkUC
— KChao (@mom2macmjc) May 12, 2019
.@MomsRising team is joining the @MothersDayRally to protest the cruel, dangerous and immoral actions of our government. America’s moms are horrified by what this administration is doing to immigrant families. #MotherofExiles #EndFamilyDetention #MothersDay pic.twitter.com/3kUf9f7X3e
— MomsRising (@MomsRising) May 12, 2019
#MotherofExiles #ElPaso #MothersDay2019
Please start a conversation with your loved ones about family separation. pic.twitter.com/ntRWBsFlng— Mother's Day Rally (@MothersDayRally) May 12, 2019
This Mother's Day it is time to start a conversation with our friends and family. We are going to expose what is happening in detention centers.
"there are 75 women in a 16 person cell, some are mothers nursing babies" #motherofexiles#FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/VVB3NifUQb— Mother's Day Rally (@MothersDayRally) May 5, 2019
It was wet and it was cold, but that couldn't stop us from demanding an end to family separation and child detention. It's why we are a Brit Olam congregation. @TheRAC #MotherofExiles pic.twitter.com/dYm8OKE6xf
— Bnai Sholom Reform Congregation (@BSRCalbany) May 13, 2019
Like many moms, I will be celebrating #MothersDay with those I cherish tomorrow. There's also an opportunity in Dallas tomorrow to rally for detained immigrant moms. #MotherOfExiles #EndFamilyDetention @MothersDayRally @dallasdemocrats @indivisibletx24 pic.twitter.com/mrRVCo1fbb
— Jan McDowell (@JanForCongress) May 11, 2019
The Trump administration's immigration practices are a moral failure of our government, inflicting deep trauma on already vulnerable children. We urge them to stop the use of our tax dollars for family separation and detention. #EndFamilyDetention #MothersDay #MotherofExiles pic.twitter.com/6yt8m3Csfc
— MomsRising (@MomsRising) May 12, 2019
Dozens are rallying to end immigrant family separation on this rainy Mother’s Day #motherofexiles @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/ijZkXNenT6
— Dave Scarnato (@DaveScarnato) May 12, 2019
#motherofexiles Washington D.C. pic.twitter.com/VfqmbsNof1
— Alec Aakesson (@yogatwit) May 12, 2019
https://t.co/MqMCqNe4o5 #MotherOfExiles @MomsRising
— Margaret Seiler (@MMSeiler) May 13, 2019
