Protesters In Downtown Austin Call On Trump Administration To Close Migrant Detention Centers

[TexasTowelie]

Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Austin today to call for an end to the detention of migrants.

The nationwide protests come after reports of unsanitary conditions at detention centers holding children at the Clint and El Paso border camps in the past week and an internal report from the Department of Homeland Security today that called overcrowding at the facilities in the Rio Grande Valley "dangerous."

Munira Fareed attended a gathering at Republic Square Park with her 15-year-old son, Rumi, a first-generation American.

"It’s not OK for parents to be separated from their children. It’s not OK for the camps to have the inhumane conditions that we’re hearing about – now that lawyers and doctors and congress people are going inside the camps," said Fareed, who also attended a smaller demonstration outside U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's Austin office. "We’re getting a look at how our own government is treating humans and children and it’s not OK."

Read more: https://www.kut.org/post/protesters-downtown-austin-call-trump-administration-close-migrant-detention-centers

I also read that there was a protest in Corpus Christi yesterday.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. I Was There

We definitely had triple-digit attendance, although I wish we had more. Still, for a Noon Weekday, attendance was pretty good.