Dozens of Jewish activists arrested at protest urging Congress to protect Dreamers

[marybourg]

Police in the U.S. Capitol arrested some 100 Jewish activists, many of them clergy, who protested in a Senate office building on behalf of a bill that would protect illegal immigrants who arrived as children.

Several dozen of the activists from the Reform movement, the Anti-Defamation League, Bend the Arc, T’ruah and other Jewish groups sat in concentric circles on Wednesday in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building until they were removed by police. They sang protest songs in Hebrew and English.

The demonstrators demanded the passage of a bill that would protect the so-called “Dreamers.” President Donald Trump removed executive orders put in place by his predecessor, Barack Obama, to protect the Dreamers from deportation.


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[Gothmog]

1. I applaud these protesters

[lunasun]

2. Bravo for the unity

[Behind the Aegis]

3. R&K