Young immigrants shout down Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi

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15. original SF Chron article not AP copy...

Protesters shut down Pelosi news conference on DACA, chanting, 'All of us or none of us'

Chanting pro-immigrant slogans — “All of us or none of us,” “Democrats deport” and “We are not a bargaining chip” — more than 60 young people overwhelmed a Monday news conference that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had organized on her home turf in San Francisco to urge passage of the DREAM Act to protect immigrants who were brought to the country as children.

After nearly an hour of boisterous chanting from the group, which called itself “Undocumented Youth,” Pelosi and fellow House Democrats Barbara Lee of Oakland and Jared Huffman of San Rafael packed up and left the carefully orchestrated event.

Among the dozens of people leading the disruption was Luis Serrano. He called on Pelosi to fight for a “clean bill” that doesn’t make concessions to the Trump administration and includes a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S., without legal status, not just the 690,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the president recently rescinded.

“Where were you when we asked to defend our parents?” the group chanted in a call-and-response led by Serrano. “And now you tell us — you have the audacity to tell us — you have been fighting deportation. You are a liar! You are a liar! You are a liar!”