North Texans Join ‘Families Belong Together’ Rallies by the Thousands

Posted on July 2, 2018

Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Immigration policy protestors turned out this weekend in Dallas, McKinney and Fort Worth.

An estimated three thousand demonstrators turned out in the summer heat for a rally at Dallas City Hall, protesting the separation of immigrant families along the border.  Local demonstrators marched and rallied in solidarity with over 700 protests nationwide and in London.

Leading chants of “Free the children, Let them go,” organizers insisted the protest was not partisan, but a reflection of the sympathies of 70 percent of all Americans.

In McKinney a few hundred people turned out at Mitchell Park, and hundreds of demonstrators rallied at the Tarrant County Court House in Fort Worth.

Meantime, the Trump administration last week released a plan to be reunited separated families at the border — but said that the reunions won’t happen quickly.

The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services said 2,053 children were still in the custody of HHS and awaiting being returned to their parents.

Since then, a federal judge ordered the federal government to reunite migrant parents with children taken from them under the Trump administration’s family separation policy.

On June 24, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, ordered that nearly all children younger than 5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be returned within 30 days.

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