Immigration Protests Held in 2 Dozen Michigan Cities
Hundreds of people gathered in Detroit and nearly two dozen other Michigan cities to add their voices to nationwide protests over the detention of immigrant families.
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Hundreds of people gathered in Detroit and nearly two dozen other Michigan cities to add their voices to nationwide protests over the detention of immigrant families.
Demonstrators are expected to gather in cities across the United States on Saturday to protest the White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that has prompted the separations and detentions of migrant families.
Capitol Police arrested nearly 600 people Thursday after hundreds of loudly chanting women demonstrated inside a Senate office building against President Donald Trump's treatment of migrant families.
Infants and young children are being held in three so-called "tender age" shelters at the border after being separated from their families
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An organization pushing back against the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant families is holding rallies Thursday in cities across the United States.
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Pastor Jill Zundell says the church will protect the family and help provide for the two sons.
The ACLU says those arrested all fear violent retribution, if deported.
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Six metro Detroit churches are vowing to take in immigrants who are facing deportation.
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Evans told WWJ Newsradio 950 that while his administration will cooperate with the federal government, he will continue to defend the rights of all Wayne County residents.
"... this will not have any affect on us," says Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
Nearly 642,000, or 7 percent, of Michigan residents are foreign-born.
Immigration can be an elixir to help bolster Detroit's shrinking population as well as the state's, Bing Goei said during taping of CBS 62's "Michigan Matters."
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"The governor thinks it's an economic plus," reported WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick.
"I have no interest in being like everybody else and giving away all of our values and principles for the sake of political correctness," he said.
"...We are going to fight to see if we can bring him back legally, the right way."
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Former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was detained by police on Wednesday, hours after he was terminated from his position, a source told CBS News Detroit.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking a judge to grant him permission to travel and to end his supervised release conditions.
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