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marybourg

(12,540 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:12 PM Jan 2018

Dozens 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, 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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Dozens of Jewish activists arrested at protest urging Congress to protect Dreamers (Original Post) marybourg Jan 2018 OP
Yes shenmue Jan 2018 #1
As a Jew, I am so proud of these protesters standing up for the rights of the Dreamers Gothmog Jan 2018 #2
Yes! And a reminder of similar marybourg Jan 2018 #4
rec appalachiablue Jan 2018 #3

Gothmog

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2. As a Jew, I am so proud of these protesters standing up for the rights of the Dreamers
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:20 PM
Jan 2018

This makes me smile and be proud of my fellow Jews.

marybourg

(12,540 posts)
4. Yes! And a reminder of similar
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 01:38 AM
Jan 2018

actions during the civil rights struggle, which I admit I'm old enough to remember.

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