O’Rourke, Kennedy, lead thousands in protest against family separation

This morning, on Father’s Day, thousands of marchers turned out to Tornillo to protest family separation at the border along with Representatives Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and Joe Kennedy (D-Mass)

Thousands of protesters flooded the Tornillo port of entry Sunday to protest family separation at the border, following President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy to separate children from parents who cross undocumented, led by Representative Beto O’Rourke.

“You can enforce the laws and keep families together,” O’Rourke said.

“This is the first time that 100 percent of those young kids traveling with those heroic moms and dads who are leaving death and deprivation, starvation and torture and brutality, first time that 100 percent are separated from their families.”

It’s something, he says, has never been done before.

“That’s the only reason that we are building tent cities right now in Tornillo, Texas, tent cities that have 200 kids right now that are gonna be built out to the capacity of 4,000 beds. That’s how bad this is getting,” said O’ROurke.

Once the crowd stopped at the port of entry, Massachusetts representative Joe Kennedy surprised the crowd, later saying the exact nature of the unaccompanied minors in the center is uncertain.

“Whether that means those individuals actually approached the border unaccompanied or whether they were separated from families and after that separating then deemed as unaccompanied,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy said he’ll take his experience from the border and share with representatives in Washington.

“To see thousands and thousands of people from all across the country gather at this spot to say that we are a country that is better and stronger than this, to say we deserve better and these kids deserve better was certainly inspiring for me,” Kennedy said.