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A round of “shames” at Foley Square directed at ICE headquarters. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch https://t.co/FqPzeZcYhn
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Jason Rosenberg (@mynameisjro) June 30, 2018

If you are attending a #FamiliesBelongTogether rally today, know your rights via @ACLU #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch https://t.co/dTwe5g9oWz
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Families Belong Together March (@WomenBelong) June 30, 2018

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It isn’t too late!! You can go to a March today!! Here’s the link to find a #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch near you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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K͙a͙s͙s͙a͙n͙d͙r͙a͙ S͙e͙v͙e͙n͙ (@KassandraSeven) June 30, 2018

Please don’t confuse being a peace maker with being passive or confuse practicing nonviolence with promoting normal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 30, 2018

Steve Benen: Last week, the Obama administration announced a breakthrough in its enforcement of immigration policy: deportations of undocumented immigrants who pose no threat to national security or public safety have effectively been suspended. The White House can’t change the law unilaterally, but it can choose to prioritize among cases and create a more sensible and more humane immigration policy.

We’re now seeing the benefits as the new policy is implemented:

…. an undocumented Mexican woman in Colorado, Sujey Pando, also learned her deportation had been scrapped, because she married her lesbian partner in Iowa. Federal law does not yet recognize same-sex marriages, but as far as the Obama administration is concerned, same-sex couples who get married in states with marriage-equality laws fall under the administration’s definition of “family.”

This is, to put it mildly, a heartening development, for which President Obama and his team deserve a lot of credit. Deportations will continue for those who commit felonies and those considered security threats, but DHS and the Justice Department will review existing cases and will “halt deportations of longtime residents with clean police records who came here illegally when they were children, or are close family of military service members, or are parents or spouses of American citizens.”

….it appears the president made a promise to the immigrant community, and he’s keeping it. Republicans are outraged, but the White House doesn’t seem to care.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told the NYT, “This is the Barack Obama I have been waiting for.”

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