US President Donald Trump continues to try to pass strict immigration bills - yesterday Republicans shot one down - and though many people aren't directly affected by the immigration issues, there is no shortage of emotion.

Icasiana de Gala is the executive director for the Southwest Newcomer Welcome Centre in Swift Current, and said she has a hard time thinking about children being separated from their families.

"You see videos of kids being torn from their parents - however you look at it, whether immigration or a different kind of scenario - something that I would say, being a mother myself, is [it's] unacceptable. Why is it being done? Seeing all these kids cry and look for their parents, and the worst thing is if they're not reunited with eachother."

de Gala didn't want to compare the severity of the situation with US immigration to that of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, but did see some similarities.

"I think the first thing that came up in news that really bothered us was missing children... It was the headline 'Missing Children,' the Truth and Reconcilliation on missing children for Indigenous people... somehow you look at them and [there are] parallels. I don't want to disrespect anyone, but just that parallelism between children taken away from their families has been happening in Canada before, and now it's rampant at the US border."

de Gala added that it was interesting that it's something that was done to the original people in Canada, and to immigrants in the US.