At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, civil rights group MALDEF said it would seek damages to compensate guests who had been detained.

“We cannot allow these illegal private prisons for children to be operated in our community.”

“We’re not going to allow her to continue to humiliate our migrant communities,” said Puente organizer Maria Castro.

“This is obviously a disappointing development for us — not only to the Muslim community, but for minorities, and the entire country as well.”

After the Phoenix budget failed in a vote last week, Mayor Thelda Williams broke the silence: “I have no idea what we do now,” she admitted.

“It’s a humanitarian issue. It’s awful what they’re doing.”

Southwest Key is holding immigrant youth detained under Trump’s family separation policy. State inspectors have cited the nonprofit’s Phoenix facilities.

Outspoken attorney Michael Avenatti is representing five families with children detained in Phoenix after they were separated at the border.

For much of the meeting, Phoenix’s multiyear light rail master plan was on the edge of a knife.

South Phoenix residents decried a lack of transparency from the regional transit authority and demanded a halt to the project.

At a protest in Phoenix, second-grader Akemi Vargas asked President Trump to stop separating families, before beginning to sob.

“I want us to be as nonpartisan as possible,” Thelda Williams said.