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After the #FamiliesBelongTogether Marches, what now?
Community Event, Education, Events, National Leg, Resources, State leg, Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger Community Event, Education, Events, National Leg, Resources, State leg, Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger

After the #FamiliesBelongTogether Marches, what now?

Last week, WMM joined a number of other organizations in a civil disobedience action at General Dynamics, Bloomington, to protest the company’s involvement in the business of immigrant detention and monitoring. This action was led by Navigate MN, Black Visions Collective, CTUL, and SEIU Local 26. Eight protestors were arrested, including Sen. Patricia Torres Ray.

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Children must be reunited with their families. Children should not be in detention centers.
National Leg, State leg, Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger National Leg, State leg, Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Act Now! Heidi Ripplinger

Children must be reunited with their families. Children should not be in detention centers.

More horrors keep emerging on the family separation policy: 2,300 children removed from their parents in 6 weeks; younger kids and toddlers housed in “tender age” shelters; no plan yet on how to reunite kids with their parents!

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