Good morning Her Campus! With a break-neck news cycle, there is no possible way for you to stay on top of every story that comes across your feeds—we’re all only human, after all.
But, life comes at you fast. So grab a cup of coffee and settle in for this quick and dirty guide to stories you might’ve been sleeping on (like, literally. It’s early.)
Protesters Gather At “Tent City” Detention Center In Tornillo, Texas
Hundreds of people — including elected officials, celebrities, and more — protested the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy at the Marcelino Serna Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas on Sunday. The site is where hundreds of migrant children are being detained in temporary shelters after being separated from their families.
Hard to get a good shot of huge crowd at @votolatino #Tornillo rally, where @KerryKennedyRFK is speaking soon. Chants of “Justice! NOW!” echoing from all sides. #BreakBreadNotFamilies pic.twitter.com/LNPabBHNwV
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) June 24, 2018
“We need to make sure once we’ve fixed this nightmare, that it never happens again,” New Mexico’s State Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham said at the protest. “We cannot allow the federal government to hide behind these fences and tents!”
We got as close as we could to the prison camps in Tornillo.
They kept us out but we made sure they knew we weren’t backing down.
Kids do not belong in tents in the middle of the desert. We will the #StolenChildren out!#FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/Y4knsjeRWg
— Paola Mendoza (@paolamendoza) June 24, 2018
Help @votolatino do imperative work to protect and serve our asylum seekers. I will match all donations up to $100k please RT https://t.co/hyUdxgmKcM pic.twitter.com/iOPhG5ldyx
— sia (@Sia) June 24, 2018
Also present were California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, Constance Wu, Bella Thorne, Joshua Jackson, Amber Heard, Lena Dunham, and Sia, among others.
President Trump Calls For Deportations Without Hearings
On Sunday, Trump asserted that immigrants who illegally crossed into the U.S. should be sent back “immediately” without due process or an appearance before a judge, The New York Times reported. Trump has been vocal about his disdain for judges in general in the past.
For example, just on Saturday at a rally in Las Vegas, Trump told his supporters that the immigration system needs fewer judges. “We have thousands of judges. Do you think other countries have judges?” Trump said in May. “We give them, like, trials. That’s the good news. The bad news is, they never show up for the trial. O.K.?”
Donald Hall Dead At 89
A former U.S. poet laureate, Donald Hall passed away on Saturday night at 89 years old. Throughout the course of his career, Hall published more than 40 books — most of which were poetry. According to The Boston Globe, he also “wrote and edited anthologies, essay collections, biographies, memoirs, plays, children’s books, and a celebrated text for writers, Writing Well.”
In 2010, Hall received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama, who said his work had “inspired Americans and enhanced the role of poetry in our national life.”
“The act of writing a poem is a bodily act as well as a mental and imaginative act, and the act of reading a poem—even silently—must be bodily before it’s intellectual.” Rest in peace, Donald Hall. https://t.co/3kshI3N0s1
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) June 24, 2018
Wendy Strothman, Hall’s literary executor, first announced his death.
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