{"id":294435,"date":"2017-02-12T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T08:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protests-surge-in-us-cities-after-arrests-of-hundreds-of-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T09:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T08:16:02","slug":"protests-surge-in-us-cities-after-arrests-of-hundreds-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protests-surge-in-us-cities-after-arrests-of-hundreds-of-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests surge in US cities after arrests of hundreds of immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of Americans have taken to the streets to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policy and the arrests of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in several states this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 2,000 demonstrators marched from outside the Federal Courts building in downtown Minneapolis to the University of Minnesota on Saturday afternoon to express solidarity with immigrants and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters denounced Trump\u2019s now-frozen travel ban and his general view on immigration as state-sponsored hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may take years or even decades, but the people always win,\u201d one organizer told the crowd. \u201cWe are what makes America great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many children also joined the \u201cWalk of Love,\u201d carrying homemade heart-shaped signs and red balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Parents said they wanted their children to learn the importance of activism so they could defend their peers who might be targeted because of their ethnicity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170212\/64326f67-698c-43af-ba50-582b92b9c68c.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters march from City Hall to the Cedar-Riverside&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/12\/510190\/Protests-surge-in-US-after-raids-on-immigrants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Americans have taken to the streets to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policy and the arrests of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in several states this week. About 2,000 demonstrators marched from outside the Federal Courts building in downtown Minneapolis to the University of Minnesota on Saturday afternoon to express solidarity with immigrants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}