The United States Capitol Police arrested 575 people, including a congress woman for “unlawfully protesting” against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and family separations at the US-Mexico border.
The demonstration took place in the heart of the Hart Senate Office Building, where the protestors were opposing Trump’s “Zero Tolerance Policy”, which treats illegal border crossings as criminal offences.
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The Capitol Police said that they have charged the protestors and are interrogating them before being let go, CBS News reported.
A Democrat from Washington D.C., Pramila Jayapal, who was among those arrested by the police, said that 500 women had gathered to protest against Trump’s “inhumane and cruel” zero-tolerance policy.
Trump signed an executive order to “keep families together” on June 20, amid the massive backlash over his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
The US president defended his policy of separating children from their families who have been illegally crossing the southern US-Mexico border, saying, to prosecute parents for illicit entry, “you have to take the children away.”
A federal judge has ordered that within 30 days, families separated at the border have to be reunited.
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