The Deluge

A deluge myth flooded today the White House, with thousands and thousands people marching and rallying all over the United States in a global mass protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Photos: Reuters/la Repubblica.

The Red Thread

Hundreds of thousands are gathering across all 50 U.S. states (and also elsewhere) against family separations carried out by the Trump administration.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new star of the Democratic Socialists of America, marching during the Bronx’s pride parade on Wednesday. Photo: David Delgado/Reuters.

Protesters at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.

A rally against the detention of migrant children staged in front of the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Lorenda Reddekopp.

Actress Susan Sarandon (centre) was one of the roughly 575 people arrested during a Capitol Hill protest of Trump administration’s immigration policies and family separations at the southern border on Thursday. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.

Jump Over the Moon

Sunland Park, New Mexico: A child climbs up the Mexican side of the Mexico–United States border fence. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Oasis and Mirages

Residents of the desert hamlet of Tornillo, near the Mexican border, express outrage at the child detention camp in their backyard. [Read more].

• Rory Carroll, Texas town denounces “twisted and shameful” camp for migrant children, The Guardian, June 22, 2018

Shoes and toys left at a Tornillo point of entry to the U.S., in Texas. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.

Flashback

The First Lady of the United States Melania Trump made a surprise visit to the U.S.–Mexico border a day after U.S. President retreated on his “zero tolerance” immigration policy signing an executive order to end the separation of migrant children from their parents. The First Lady took part in briefings and attended a tour of a “nonprofit social services center for children who have entered the United States illegally and a customs and border patrol processing center”, according to a statement from her office. Earlier in the day, while boarding a plane to Texas, the First Lady appeared to be wearing a $39 khaki green Zara jacket provocatively reading “I really don’t care. Do u?”, which she then removed during the visit. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.

Reconstructing Sociology

NGOs say bringing parents and children back together is an enormous puzzle with no clear system from the administration. [Read more].

• Olivia Solon, Fate of 2,300 separated children still unclear despite Trump’s executive order, The Guardian, June 21, 2018

The Trump administration has backtracked on its policy but offered no immediate plan for reuniting families. Photo: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images.

Jeux Sans Frontières

New York, United States: People protest against the Trump administration practice of separating immigrant families. Photo: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

“In the past six weeks, nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated from their parents”, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein (pictured above) said in his opening speech to the 38th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland opposing the U.S. Border Security and Immigration Reform Act. Mr. Zeid also said that the American Academy of Pediatrics in the United States called it a cruel practice of “government-sanctioned child abuse” which may cause “irreparable harm” with “lifelong consequences”. Photo: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré.