Viewfinder: The One-Year Anniversary of the Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: May 8, 2019

To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy, the group Families Belong Together set up a life-sized cage depicting child separation at the United States–Mexico border on Capitol Hill on May 7th, 2019, in Washington, D.C. — *To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy,* *the* *group Families Belong Together set up* a life-sized cage *depicting child separation at the United States–Mexico border* on Capitol Hill on May 7th, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
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Nahren Anweya (left) and Rabia Kazan (right), of the Middle Eastern Women's Coalition, call for the resignation of United States Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 6th, 2019. The same day, others held a press conference to support Omar in the midst of her controversial comments criticizing pro-Israel lawmakers for potential "allegiance" to a foreign country.

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Members of the Middle Eastern Women's Coalition call for the resignation of United States Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 6th, 2019.

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Activists, including childcare providers, parents, and their children, protest against the Trump administration's family detention and separation policies for migrants along the southern border, near the New York offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on July 18th, 2018, in New York City.

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