90-year-old Ethel Kennedy joins hunger strike against immigration policies

At 90 years old, Ethel Kennedy is joining the fight against the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant families at the border to Mexico.

• J.D. Capelouto
• Boston Globe

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, plans to participate in a hunger strike in protest of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for immigrants who enter the country illegally, in conjunction with several activist groups and…

The fast, which started Saturday, is scheduled to last for 24 days, in honor of the estimated 2,400 children that have been separated from their parents.

Organizers ask that each participant fast for 24 hours and make a…

• 90-year-old…