The Saratogian (Saratoga, NY)

'We care': Family separation protests flood U.S. cities

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POMONA, CALIF. » Authoritie­s WASHINGTON » They wore say a Southern California white. They shook their fists college public security in the air. They carried signs

specialist has been stabbed reading: “No more children in

to death and the suspect fatally cages,” and “What’s next? Concentrat­ion shot by police. Camps?”

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s In major cities and tiny Department said Saturday towns, hundreds of thousands

that the 37-year-old victim’s of marchers gathered Saturday

body was found in his patrol across America, moved by accounts truck Friday afternoon of children separated

on the campus of California from their parents at the U.S.Mexico

Polytechni­c University, border, in the latest act

Pomona. of mass resistance against President

Department spokeswoma­n Donald Trump’s immigratio­n Trina Schrader said policies. witnesses found the suspect Protesters flooded more nearby and that campus police than 700 marches, from immigrant-friendly fatally shot him about cities like New

30 minutes later. York and Los Angeles to conservati­ve

Schrader says the knife Appalachia and Wyoming.

used to kill the victim was They gathered on the

recovered. She didn’t release front lawn of a Border Patrol any more details or station in McAllen, Texas, near

the identities of the victim a detention center where migrant

and suspect. children were being held

The university, east of in cages, and on a street corner

Los Angeles, has more than near Trump’s golf resort at

25,000 undergradu­ate and Bedminster, New Jersey, where

graduate students. the president is spending the weekend.

“Do you know where our children are?” one protester’s sign there asked. Another offered: “Even the Trump family belongs together.”

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