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Photos of the day: Caged bear

By Caroline Brehman
Posted November 16, 2020 at 4:29pm
(Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Volunteers from the groups Families Belong Together and the Franciscan Action Network organized a demonstration on Monday with 600-plus teddy bears. They placed bears on cages to represent “the children still separated as a result of U.S. immigration policies” in Washington.

A cage filled with 600-plus teddy bears sits on the National Mall. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

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