A crowd of about 400 protesters rallied in front of the White House on Monday, carrying signs that called President Donald Trump a racist and claimed a wall on the U.S. Border with Mexico is a symbol of the rise of white nationalism under this administration.
One speaker, who works with Amnesty International, said the federal government is torturing migrants who are in custody after crossing the border into the United States.
“You all are proof that bridges are better than walls,” she said. “That love trumps hate. That no human being is illegal. And that we are all by virtue of our shared condition guaranteed to the same human rights.”
Some protesters evoked President Barack Obama in their hateful signs about President Trump. (Penny Starr/Breitbart News)
She told the story of a woman was separated for her son the entered the United States seeking asylum.
“Ice then jailed her in a prison-like facility in El Paso even though she and her child were here in search of protection,” the woman said.
“At Amnesty International, we’ve concluded that the treatment [the woman] has faced at the hands of the U.S government amounts to torture,” she said.
One protester seemed to believe that not only did Trump collude with the Russians but is an agent. (Penny Starr/Breitbart News)
Mary Small of the Detention Watch Network was one of the speakers who claimed securing the southern border is racist.
“This emergency declaration is unquestionable wrong, worrying, and a Democracy-damaging power grab by a man and an administration with a wide authoritarian streak and a relentlessly myopic focus on fear-mongering and scapegoating,” Small said. “It’s not just a wall. It’s a monument to his vanity and a sign and signal of ascendent white nationalism.”
“We don’t need another racist monument in this country,” Reggie Hubbard, congressional liaison and Washington, DC, Strategist at MoveOn.org, said of the wall.
Pussy hats weren’t in abundance, but protesters carried the same hateful signage that’s been routine at anti-Trump rallies over the past two years: “F**K Trump,” “Fake Emergency, Fake President, Real Loser, Real Traitor,” “Impeach the Russian Agent,” and “Impeach the Creep and Traitorous Veep.”
The also chanted their open borders sentiments, including “From Palestine to Mexico all walls have got to go.”
As Breitbart News reported, the George-Soros-funded MoveOn.org organized the protests that allegedly took place across the country.
The list of partners on a website devoted to anti-Trump activities reveals the leftwing politics behind it:
350.org
5 Calls
ACLU
ACLU of NM
act.tv
Action Group Network
Action Together Massachusetts
Action Together Network
Action Together SEMA
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
AFSCME
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Inc.
America’s Voice
American Federation of Teachers
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Arab American Institute
Bay Resistance
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
Bernie Sanders Brigade
Blue Future
CAIR Minnesota
CAIR New York
CAP Action
Center for Popular Democracy
Central New York Citizen Action
Chispa
Church World Service
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
CREDO
Daily Kos
Defending Rights & Dissent
Delaware Common Cause
Democracy for America
Democrats.com
EqualVotelocal
Fair Immigration Reform Movement
Families Belong Together
Flip Florida
franciscan action network
Global Exchange
Herd on the Hill
iAmerica Action
Immigration Hub
Indivisible
Indivisible Chicago
Indivisible Columbus District 3
Indivisible Front Range Resistance
Indivisible Indiana District 2
Indivisible Kings County
Indivisible Madison
Indivisible NAPA
Indivisible Santa Barbara
Indivisible SF
Indivisible SF Peninsula and CA-14
indivisible Washington’s 8th District
Indivisible: Ohio District 12
J Street
Jeffco CAN
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Impact
La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)
League of Conservation Voters
Milwaukee County Poor People’s Campaign
MomsRising
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Peace Fellowship
National Council of Jewish Women
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Law Center
NextGen America
Northern Nevada DSA
Ohio Indivisible 15
Peace Action
People Demanding Action
People For the American Way
People’s Action
Peoples Climate Movement
Poligon Education Fund
Postcards for America
Public Citizen
Race Forward
RAICES
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Resistance365
Resistbot
RISE Stronger
Rogan’s List
Saratoga Progressive Action
Sierra Club
Southern Border Communities Coalition
Southland Resistance
STAND CNJ
Stark Indivisible
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
The Harry Potter Alliance
The Revolutionary Love Project
The Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign
UltraViolet
United Action for Idaho
United Vision for Idaho
United We Dream
Westchester Citizen Therapists
Win Without War
Working Families Party
On Friday, Trump signed a federal spending bill that gives him $1.3 billion for border security. The president also declared a national emergency to allow him to put alternative monetary resources in place to get the wall project completed.
Several leftist groups are suing the president, which means legal battles over the wall could go on for months. Meanwhile, construction and reinforcement of the wall project continue.
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