400 protest in Lake Forest Park on May Day
Friday, May 2, 2025
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| Photo by Donna Hawkey |
About 400 protestors showed up in Lake Forest Park on May 1st at the intersection of Bothell & Ballinger Way.
All were carrying home made signs expressing their protest of government overreach during the past 100 days.
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| Photo by Claudia Meadows |
Drummers provided sounds of determination against concerns over the Trump administration’s many policy changes.
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| Photos by Donna Hawkey |
People loudly expressed that our constitution is in jeopardy.
Are we all in jeopardy when due process is eliminated -- such as what is currently happening to many immigrants?
This protestor shows patriotic obligation when injustices are seen and felt.
This protestor shows patriotic obligation when injustices are seen and felt.
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| Photo by Donna Hawkey |
See you next time in LFP.
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7 comments:
Was it respectful of the law for the Biden administration to throw open the southern border to something like 12 million illegal immigrants? Open borders advocates want to flood the zone with far too many people for our legal system to handle, and then they get all huffy when a domestic abuser with gang affiliations is deported to El Salvador. They falsely claim that US citizen children are being deported, when in fact it was their mothers who were deported and who freely chose to take their American children with them. Are these protesters advocating for a family separation policy?
The May Day in Lake Forest Park turnout was a wonderful testament to the many networks formed by citizens with conscience and an awareness of the history of despotism.
As one sign read : "Never Again Is Now".
Yesterday, our voices were heard. Let us keep shouting!
One mother who was about to be deported was allowed less than two minutes on the phone with her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old U.S. citizen child.
Another mother wasn’t allowed to speak with attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her U.S.-born children, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement knew one of them had Stage 4 cancer.
Doesn't sound like these mothers "freely chose" to take their children with them. Their decisions were made under duress. Why not let mothers of small children speak with an attorney before being rushed out of the country? ICE told the mothers to bring their children with them to their appointments. ICE knew what would happen.
How is it that people here illegally haven't already made arrangements for their children and called an attorney BEFORE they get nabbed? Law enforcement doesn't not sit around and let you make calls and arrangements before they take you away. They never have.
Committing a felony has consequences. No worries going the legal route yet they chose the illegal route.
Most of these folks would eliminate the freedom of speech of those who disagree with them if they were ever given power. Destroy a border destroy a country.
First, nobody is entitled to a free attorney during a deportation hearing, just as nobody is entitled to a free attorney for a traffic ticket infraction. These are administrative hearings, not criminal charges. Second, you're making it sound like US children who went with their deported mothers will never be heard from again, when the truth is that American citizen children have lifetime right of return to the United States. It is almost always better for small children to be kept with their mothers, and that's what happened in these cases.
Do you want to blame someone? Blame the parents who decided to come to the US illegally and thought they'd get away with it.
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