[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he flowers and posters have blocked a gated driveway at a federal building in downtown Los Angeles since Friday afternoon. A message scrawled in chalk on the sidewalk still reads: “JUSTICE FOR THE CHILDREN.”
For more than three days, demonstrators have staged this protest against the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in the separation of children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Organizers call it a vigil for children and families held in federal custody, and the camp-out remains there while Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrives in Los Angeles today, for a speech to the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Tuesday morning began with arrests of another set of activists who gathered outside the U.S. courthouse on Spring Street. Go here to follow updates on that incident.