Hundreds in Toronto protest U.S. administration’s family separation policy

A couple of hundred individuals have gathered in entrance of the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policy, and have introduced stuffed animals to symbolize migrant kids separated from their mother and father on the U.S.-Mexico border. Saturday’s rally is certainly one of greater than a dozen in Canada. Different cities planning protests embody Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Edmonton. Greater than 600 marches are deliberate in the U.S. The rising pile of stuffed toys in Toronto features a cage with two dolls inside to represent kids being detained beneath the controversial U.S. policy. Most of the protesters in entrance of 360 College Ave., north of Queen Road West, have introduced their kids. Some U.S. residents have joined the protest. All are rallying beneath the banner: Maintain Households Collectively.  The rising pile of stuffed toys features a cage with two dolls inside to point out that kids are being detained beneath the U.S. policy. (Lorenda Reddekopp/CBC) A variety of audio system have denounced the immigration detention policy and are demanding an finish to the separation of migrant kids from their mother and father in the U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered an finish to the policy, however there are nonetheless greater than 2,000 kids in the custody of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies. Organizers say the policy is abusive and a human rights violation. Protest in assist of ‘kids who haven’t got a voice’ “One thing must be carried out instantly concerning the abusive segregation of asylum looking for households and their kids on the USA, Mexico border. Taking kids away from their mother and father and putting them in such circumstances is evil and can have long run psychological, emotional and bodily influence,” says a Fb put up about Toronto’s occasion. “This can be a human rights violation and the USA must be held accountable for its horrendous actions.” The put up urges the Canadian authorities to take a stand on the problem. “Canada wants to talk out and make a transparent assertion that such egregious human rights violations won’t be tolerated,” the Fb put up reads. “We’re coming collectively on behalf of the kids who haven’t got a voice.”  The pile of stuffed animals, symbolizing kids who haven’t got a voice, is rising in entrance of the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto. (Lorenda Reddekopp/CBC) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protest-keep-families-together-rally-us-consulate-general-toronto-1.4729837?cmp=rss