Progressive Leadership Council has scheduled a news conference Tuesday, June 19, at 10:30 am to voice our outrage and concern that Congress is still allowing the separation of these immigrant children from their parents and detention; and demand a response from our Florida Senators and Congressional delegation. We will invite representatives from the offices of both Sens. Nelson and Rubio and Reps. Lawson and Dunn to state their positions at the news conference.

You are invited to the Tuesday 10:30 am news conference at the Florida Press Center at College Avenue & Gadsden Street to express your outrage.

Council President Dorothy Inman Johnson will read a statement on behalf and provide copies. “I invite religious leaders, organizations advocating on behalf of immigrant families, and family and child advocates, including members of the Council, to notify me before Monday if you want to be added as a speaker,” she said

“It is immoral that the Trump administration is using the Bible to justify our government's cruelty to families who have already suffered so much to get here seeking safety from dangerous conditions in their own country.”