The universe is eternal, infinite and vibrant, a conscious cosmos: The Guardian | June 30, 2018 | ~ Almost 600 arrested at Washington protest over Trump immigration policy ~ | .. Demonstrators sat on floor of Senate office building to condemn treatment of migrant families, with more rallies planned .. | Blogger: [🗣️Families Belong Together rallies: George Soros-funded & Deep State campaigns divide America] ... /ritzau/ (translated from Danish:) -- More than 600 protest marches are planned in cities ranging from the Democratic stronghold of New York to the Republican State of Wyoming. The demonstrators go under the slogan: 'Families belong together'. It is a direct reference to the families currently separated by US authorities at the southern border. The divisions are a result of the US government's decision to introduce zero tolerance to immigrants. Therefore, all adults arrested in the attempt to cross the US border are being prosecuted illegally. If families have children, it has been practice in recent months that they have been removed. The children are placed in children's centers without contact with their parents, which has caused great resentment. Trump has announced that he will no longer separate the families. At the same time, a federal judge in San Diego earlier this week decided that the over 2000 separated children should be reunited with their families. The decision states that it must take place within 30 days if the children are over five years and within 14 days in the case of children under five years of age. At the same time, parents should be allowed to talk on the phone with their children ten minutes a day. However, it is far from certain that families can be reunited under normal conditions. On Friday, the US government announced that they interpreted the verdict's decision as a blow stamp that now you can hold entire families in the custody of the authorities. According to a submission to the court, the US government writes that "you do not want to separate families but withhold the entire families while the immigration process is awaiting". The treatment of immigration cases can take months and years. It forces civil rights defenders to fear that there is a detention of families indefinitely. So far, US authorities have agreed that a child must be detained for a maximum of twenty days. But it can now be extended considerably.... |