Demonstrators are reading excerpts from interviews lawyers have conducted with children in detention. Between each reading, the group joins in song: βLord have mercy.β
#CatholicDayOfAction
#DC
Starting now: Catholics are gathered on the Capital lawn to protest the Trump Administrationβs immigration policies and to call on Congress to defund ICE, stop detaining children and reform immigration policies theyβre calling βinhumane.β Theyβre calling this
#catholicdayofaction
This is the second time this week faith leaders have come to
#DC
to protest the Trump Administrationβs immigration policy β on Tuesday, 10 Jewish activists were arrested inside ICE headquarters in an effort to disrupt operations there:
Families gathered here are holding up photographs of migrant children who have died in federal custody in recent months. They list their names, ages and the day they died. Otjer signs say things like, βchildren do not belong on cages.β
#CatholicDayOfAction
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NOW: Inside the Russell Senate building here in
#DC
, where dozens of Catholic nuns, parishioners and other leaders are preparing to be arrested by Capitol Police on this
#CatholicDayOfAction
in protest of the Trump administrationβs immigration policies.
Police are arresting these nuns one by one, as they recite the Lordβs Prayer, which is echoing off the marble walls of the Russell Rotunda here in
#DC
. About 50 senators have offices in this building.
#CatholicDayOfAction
Watch here as Sister Pat Murphy, 90, is arrested and led out. Sister Pat works with migrants and refugees in Chicago, and has been holding a weekly vigil outside ICE there for 13 years. She says the treatment of migrants should outrage all people of faith
#CatholicDayOfAction
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Capital police officers are dismantling the human cross these Catholics made with their bodies on the Russell Rotunda floor during todayβs
#CatholicDayOfAction
. On their chests are photographs of migrant children who have died in recent months while in federal custody.
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This is the last of them, singing as theyβre led away. Dozens of Catholic nuns, clergy & parishioners were arrested in
#DC
during todayβs
#CatholicDayOfAction
. Several said they hope it gives lawmakers courage to stand up for the protection of migrant families & change US policy.