Activists gathered Saturday in hundreds of rallies around the United States, including in New York City, protesting the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that has led to the separation of migrant children from their parents at the southern border and calling for a clear plan to reunite families.
"We actually have to participate to make it work," actress Kerry Washington, who is from the Bronx, told NY1. "When you have those moments — and a lot of us are having them now, of feeling overwhelmed and afraid and heartbroken about the state of affairs in our country — you have to speak out and come together with other people who care about this country doing the right thing."