BUFFALO, NY-More than 2,500 protestors gathered outside the Federal Courthouse in Buffalo carrying signs and singing songs, calling for an end to the Trump Administrations "zero tolerance" immigration policy that separates children from their parents.

"Families are being torn apart, not only on the southern U.S. border of Mexico but through ICE raids and deportation proceedings throughout the nation. I'm calling on all officials to represent the best interest of all our families, children, and communities, and take a stand against a brutal poorly conceived policy," said protestor Sarah Richards-Desai.

This woman who spoke at the rally but didn't want to give her name says she experienced the same thing these children are experienced when she came to the U.S. from Mexico 13-years ago.

" I know what it feels like to feel fear. to feel vulnerability, to feel alone, to feel like there's no end to this unknown journey, when you thought you were going to go for a better life to America, you found being stuck in a nightmare without your parents, without any familiar faces, feeling like cattle, and feeling like your just being transported from one cage to another," said Immigrant woman,

Following the outcry over images of children being held in detention centers President Trump signed an executive order that ended the separation of families at the border by detaining children and their parents together. Immigration attorney Jenny Rizzo -Choi says the move still leaves many children in limbo. 

"But the fact of the matter is, once you split parents from kids there's two thousand something kids that have been split from them, no reuniting them is going to take a long

time. There's still uncertainty as to if this practice will continue, the Trump administration wants to detain families together, which is not an OK alternative as well. Detaining children is not good. Even if they're with their parents it is not a humane thing to do," said Rizzo-Choi.

Following the rally protestors marched to the ICE headquarters two block away. Organizers say they plan to continue their campaign against the immigration policy and hope to carry this momentum all the way to the November midterms.