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Lea said that each day she fears Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may \"take away my mom from me.\"

\"I don't like to live with this fear,\" she said. \"I can't sleep. I can't study. I'm stressed.

\"I'm afraid they will take away my mom while she is at work, out driving or at home.\"

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PHOTO: Thousands of people march in support of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border on June 30, 2018 in New York.
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The youth blamed the Trump administration for failing to \"support mothers who just want a better life for their children.\"

The emotional child hoped that this fear of deportation that she dreads every day will be lifted.

\"We are children,\" Lea said, directing her words at fellow migrant kids in a similar plight as hers. \"Our government has to do the right thing and stop separating us from our parents and stop locking us up.\"

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PHOTO: Crowd at The Women's March LA Rally for Families Belong Together - A Day of Action at Los Angeles City Hall on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles.
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PHOTO: Protesters gather in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, for the Families Belong Together March, Washington DC, June 30, 2018.
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The administration's policy of “zero tolerance” was originally aimed at deterring people crossing the border illegally.

Then Trump, under growing pressure from clergy and even fellow Republicans who opposed the measures, signed an executive order to amend part of his policy and would keep together immigrant families attempting to enter the country illegally at the border.

\"I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,\" Trump said at the time he signed the order.

Until Trump made the unilateral move, migrants who illegally crossed the border awaited trial and their children were being separated from them and detained in a separate facility. This week, the Trump administration also halted the practice of turning over parents to prosecutors for charges of illegally entering the country.

The policy, set forth by President Donald Trump and implemented by Attorney General Jeff Sessions since May and has caused hundreds of families to be estranged.

According to The Associated Press, about 500 of the more than 2,300 children separated from families have been reunited since May. How many of the approximately 500 children were still detained with their families wasn't clear.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told ABC News recently that the \"changing conditions\" at the border have allowed for agents to \"enforce the law by prosecuting\" but that \"keeping families together and having that child welfare paramount, is important.\"

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PHOTO: People take part during the nationwide "Families Belong Together" march as they walk by the Brooklyn Bridge on June 30, 2018 in New York City.
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He noted that much of the attention has been at the border, but that there is a need to also look at \"what's happening on the Central American side\" and how these migrant families are often \"in the hands of Mexican cartels, dangerous organizations\" when they make a decision to flee their country for the U.S.

In downtown Chicago, thousands of marchers bearing signs and chanting together against the Trump administration's policies.

\"What's next? Concentration Camps?\" one marcher's sign read, according to Chicago ABC station WLS.

\"I care, do you?\" read another, a dig at First Lady Melania Trump who sported a beige coat that retailed at $39, with the screed \"I really don't care. Do U?\" on its back before heading to McAllen, Texas, for a visit to the Upbring New Hope Children's Center, which houses 55 migrant children.

\"We care!\" was the chorus heard outside city hall in Dallas, Texas.

Marchers there carried signs that read: \"Compassion not cruelty\" and \"November is coming.\"

There were marchers at the border in El Paso, Texas.

In Denver, Colorado, protesters came out in heavy numbers as well.

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PHOTO: Thousands of people march in support of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border on June 30, 2018 in New York.
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In New York City, thousands were spotted in a sea of white marching downtown denouncing Trump as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge chanting: \"Shame!\" and singing \"Shut detention down!\" and \"Donald Trump must go!\"

Thousands of protesters are marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to demand an end to family separation and fight for the country we want to live in. #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/sy6GQAGd0x

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 30, 2018

Gridlocked drivers were seen honking their horns in apparent solidarity.

To ANYONE that says the #Resistance is fatigued- check out the never ending march across the Brooklyn Bridge for #FamiliesBelongTogether in 90° heat! This is the STARTING point of a march that started an hour ago! @thenyic pic.twitter.com/6WdG97gKuO

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) June 30, 2018

Celebrities were on-hand on Saturday a march in downtown Los Angeles.

Singer John Legend performed his new song, “Preach.\"

He was joined by Eugenio Derbez, Laverne Cox and Taboo as well as politicians Sen. Kamala Harris, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and the state's Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In Boston, politicians U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., partook in a morning march from City Hall to Boston Common.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., was part of a march in Atlanta to praise attendees causing \"good trouble, necessary trouble\" in trying to keep the pressure on the administration's immigration policy.

\"The world is crying with us,\" Lewis told the crowd. \"We must show the world that we are better than what is going on in America today.\"

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