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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tens-of-thousands-expected-to-descend-on-washington-to-protest-trumps-immigration-policy/2018/06/30/0e4a6a26-7bde-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dc67612e74b0By Marissa J. Lang, Julie Zauzmer and Hannah Natanson
The rally began with drums and a reminder that the story of most Americans began somewhere else.
A representative of the Piscataway Indian Nation addressed a crowd of thousands assembled in Lafayette Square on Saturday in Spanish, then English. Sebastian Medina-Tayac burned tobacco, a Native American prayer tradition, said a prayer and then sang an indigenous-language song from Bolivia that means, “take courage.â€
“We don’t believe in borders. We don’t believe in walls,†Medina-Tayac said.
The rally ended with a march past the White House and the Trump International Hotel and on to the Department of Justice, where protesters affixed signs to the building gates:
“We are better than this,†one said.
“Las familias merecen estar unidos,†said another, which translates to “Families deserve to be united.â€
Starting around 9 a.m., thousands had made their way to Lafayette Square, with many more filling in along 16th Street and into Farragut Square, areas that had been blocked off in anticipation of 50,000 protesters’ arrival in the District.
The crowd seemed somewhat shy of that, although organizers said aerial photographs indicated it was still in the tens of thousands.
About 750 similar “Families Belong Together†rallies were planned throughout the country in every state — from big cities such as Boston, Chicago and New York to tiny ones such as Antler, N.D., which has a population of 27.
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