STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

A Families Belong Together Rally will be held at 10 a.m. today—Saturday, June 30—in Ketchum Town Square.

The event is designed to send a message to President Trump and Congress that families belong together. It’s part of a nationwide rally being held in Washington, D.C., and around the country, said Bena Larkey, the lead organizer.

It’s being held in response to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, under which more than 2,000 children attempting to cross the border have been taken from their parents and placed in detention centers.

“Donald Trump and his administration have cruelly separated children from their families. Now they’re jailing families—and they haven’t yet reunified the families already brutally torn apart. We won’t allow it to continue—and we won’t let them put families into internment camps,” said organizers with MoveOn.org political action committee.

Speakers will include Muffy Davis, a candidate for the District 26 House seat, and Sarah Sentilles, co-founder of Immigration Alliance of Idaho.

More than 630 rallies are planned across the nation from Anchorage, Alaska, to Boca Raton, Fla., with 300,000 people expected to attend the one in Washington, D.C.

In Idaho other rallies are planned in Boise, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Falls, Lewiston, McCall, Meridian, Pocatello and Sandpoint.