Mountain View Says "Reunite Separated Families, Stop ICE!"

2,000 people demonstrated in downtown Mountain View, California Saturday night to protest President Trump's policy of separating undocumented immigrant families trying to enter the United States at the southern border. The protest started at 7 p.m. at the corner of El Camino Real and Castro Street. Participants then marched to Civic Center Plaza for a rally with cheers, chants and singing by the Resistance Chorus and the Raging Grannies. As the sun set the gathering glowed with a candlelight vigil.

There were more than 700 protests and rallies scheduled throughout the country all on the same day. In Washington, D.C. 35,000 demonstrators marched to the White House in 96-degree temperatures, while in San Francisco the estimate was 30,000.

The nationwide demonstration came under the banner of "Families Belong Together". In Mountain View many organizations came together to pull off the march and rally that filled the city center's plaza. At the top of the list were groups Together We Will--Mountain View, Mountain View Voices for Peace and Justice, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Mountain View Day Worker Center, SIREN...and there were others too.