Attorneys for Therese Okoumou, who scaled the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, said their client was drawing attention to family separations at the border and to the White House’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies.

“We will defend to the teeth her right to protest family separations,” said Rhiya Trivedi, an associate at the Law Office of Ronald L. Kuby, in an interview.

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