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MCALLEN, Texas (FOX 26) - A faith-based rally for immigrant rights was held in McAllen just hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families at the border.
The event was planned in light of World Refugee Day well before the president's action.
At the rally, the executive action was met with a little sense of relief for the families but a lot of skepticism.
"From all the other things he’s done I’m a little leary," said Diamantina Herrera, a member of a local Catholic church.
"I felt that [it] was a fraud because, for one, there was no law to separate children from their mothers," said Mary Ruiz who attended the rally with her husband.
"It’s something that felt so disrespectful to my service to this country," said Ruben Yzaguirre, a Vietnam veteran referring to the separation of children from their families. "I think the problem that he is caused is going to remain for many, many years in the lives of these children."
Sister Norma Pimentel is holding on to hope that his move will lead the Trump administration to reconsider its other positions on immigration policy.
She works with migrant families at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen where they help about 100 migrants everyday. She says the migrants are mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
"They’re actually running away from a very dangerous reality that if they stay where they are, their child could very easily be killed," she told FOX 26.
She says now she hopes the administration will consider more humane ways to treat those in the asylum process such as not holding families in detention while they await their court hearing.
Pimentel and rally go-ers also worry what authorities are doing to reunite the families who have already been separated.