Families Belong Together rally in Denver, Colorado

But the family separation policy has been a watershed for attracting a broader spectrum of demonstrators, she said.

The rally was organized by group March on Vancouver, and is one of 16 taking place in Canada, and dozens scheduled across the US on Saturday.

Carolina Perez of Long Island came to the United States from Chile. Grasham carried a sign calling for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“That is why I march today, to honour his sacrifice”.

Some protesters said they were so aghast by Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that they couldn’t explain exactly how they felt.

Thousands lined the steps of the federal courthouse in Eugene on Saturday for a rally against the current immigration policies.

Guerrero, who plays Maritza Ramos on the show, told the D.C. crowd they should remember the separation of children from their parents when they got to the polls in November, urging them: “Remember this in November, when we march to the polls”. I know that even putting a stop to the separation doesn’t mean it’s really happening and I’m not sure when those children are going to be reunited with their families. There are parents here who are being deported who as United States born citizens- as their children.

“We don’t believe in borders, we don’t believe in walls”, Sebastian Medina-Tayac, of the Piscataway Indian Nation, declared in English and Spanish at the start of the rally dubbed “Families Belong Together”.

Sheela Lal, an MU graduate and another speaker at the protest, said it’s important for the rest of country to see Missourians protesting the president. Photo by Reuters / Joshua Roberts.

In Washington, a massive crowd gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House in what was expected to be the largest of the day’s protests.

“Do everything we can to make sure the country is upholding the values we all believe in”, she told CBS2’s Dave Carlin. “Don’t give up. Don’t give in”.

Closest to the situation were the thousands who gathered on the border with Mexico, particularly in El Paso, Texas.

In the president’s hometown of New York City, an estimated 30,000 marchers poured across the Brooklyn Bridge in sweltering 90-degree heat, some carrying their children on their shoulders, chanting, “Shame!”

On Saturday, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet suggesting that he never pushed House Republicans to vote for the Immigration bill. According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, two-thirds of Americans oppose the policy of separating families at the border.

Elaine Alvarez, 37, said she joined family members at a rally at Foley Square in NY to break stereotypes about immigrants being criminals.

The political backlash against ICE is so intense that members of the agency’s criminal investigative division have asked Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to split them off as a separate agency, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Richard Singh Jr. says it took him 20 years to immigrate to Queens from Guyana. “If we fight for this democracy and our ability to have a voice and protect each other, then we might save each other”.