Capitol Police Arrest More Than 600 Women Chanting ‘Abolish ICE’
Ahead of the nationwide protest against the Trump administration’s family-separation policy
planned for this Saturday, more than 2,000 women marched from the Department of Justice to the Hart Senate building in Washington, D.C., to demand the end of immigrant detention, family separation, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The act of nonviolent civil disobedience, organized by the Women’s March, started at the DoJ, where women blockaded the building’s entrance during the lunch hour. Then, protesters — who wore white, at the organizers’ request — marched to the Hart building, where they covered themselves with foil blankets that resemble those given to immigrant children in detention centers, and chanted “Abolish ICE” and “Where are the kids?”
A handful of Democratic politicians also joined in, including senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth, and Mazie Hirono, as well as Pramila Jayapal, the congresswoman who helped plan Saturday’s nationwide Families Belong Together protests.
“This is what democracy looks like,” one woman in attendance tweeted with the demonstration’s hashtag, #WomenDisobey, which many protesters used.
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