Meanwhile, some focused on the plight of the children. On Friday, the White House announced that Obama will meet with the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador next week to discuss the issue. He has asked Congress for $3.7 billion - an amount Republicans have blasted as excessive - in emergency funds to help deal with the crisis. President Barack Obama seeks to reduce a backlog of cases overwhelming the immigration system by speeding up hearings to determine who stays and who goes. government has undertaken highly controversial efforts to place them in holding facilities across the country. Many have fled violence, including rape, gang activity and drug wars.

since the beginning of this year are from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Most of the close to 60,000 children who've come to the U.S. On its Facebook page, about 4,000 said they would be 'going.'Īll of this amid the ongoing political debate over the humanitarian crisis. While some protests will likely be large gatherings, many observed rallies appeared to have only a handful of protesters. In a written announcement, organizers claimed the protests would amount to 'the largest coordinated protest against all forms of amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, and the government's failure to enforce immigration laws and secure our borders.' There is no way to confirm the size and breadth of the protests. 'It's a national security and it's also a health and safety concern as well.'Īnd in Rockwall, Texas – a Dallas suburb – the woman who said it's not America's job to care for the unaccompanied minors also told the WFAA reporter: 'They need to be sent back to the countries they came from.' 'Other countries seem to be able to close their borders, but we aren't,' she told a WBMA reporter. In Birmingham, Alabama, protesters decried 'amnesty,' as one of them warned about the dangers of allowing illegal immigrants into the U.S. Elsewhere in the city, a woman said to a KCTV reporter: 'We cannot be…babysitters of the world.' 'They need to clean our country up and get back to the original version of what our country was,' one man told a KMBC reporter. On Friday in Kansas City, Missouri, protesters held aloft signs that read: 'Stop Illegal Alien Invasion' and 'Strengthen our Borders.' states and the District of Columbia over the two days.

Throngs of Americans are participating in a so-called 'National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge.' An announcement lists events in all 50 U.S. 'But it's not our job to take care of them.'

'It is a sad state of affairs for those kids,' one protester said. and warning of a national security and 'health and safety concern.' along the southern border, some Americans are venting their anger in the streets on Friday and Saturday, calling it an 'alien invasion' of the U.S. Washington (CNN) – They're mad as hell and don't want to take it anymore.Īmid the surge of unaccompanied immigrant children illegally crossing into the U.S.

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