Carols at Tornillo: protesters sing for children held in Trump's tent city
Source: Guardian
Edwin Delgado in Tornillo, Texas
Mon 24 Dec 2018 12.10 GMT
Singing and chanting as loud as they could, a few hundred feet from where thousands of children remain detained in a tent-like facility, activists and members of the public hoped their voices would find their way across fences and barbed wire. They wanted to let the children know people were thinking of them during this holiday season.
El Paso organizations put together the Christmas Caroling event in Tornillo, which began on Sunday and will continue daily until 1 January. The idea came from Joshua Rubin, an activist from Brooklyn who has spent the past two months at the border, monitoring the treatment of migrants held by the federal government.
Rubin first visited McAllen, Texas in the summer, when the Trump administration’s controversial family separation policy was in place. He came back in October, after learning about the expansion of the Tornillo facility.
“I decided to come down, sit here at the gates and watch what goes in and what goes out,” he said. “I gather what I see and report to people, and maybe if I’m here watching, the rest of the country might start watching and these kids won’t be forgotten.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/24/carols-tornillo-protesters-sing-migrant-children-trump-tent-city
Beto O'Rourke was also there.
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