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Related: About this forumDozens of Jewish activists arrested at protest urging Congress to protect Dreamers
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, Truah 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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Dozens of Jewish activists arrested at protest urging Congress to protect Dreamers (Original Post)
marybourg
Jan 2018
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)1. Yes
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)2. As a Jew, I am so proud of these protesters standing up for the rights of the Dreamers
This makes me smile and be proud of my fellow Jews.
marybourg
(12,540 posts)4. Yes! And a reminder of similar
actions during the civil rights struggle, which I admit I'm old enough to remember.
appalachiablue
(41,053 posts)3. rec