Nearly 600 women were arrested Thursday in one of several demonstrations across the country protesting the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant families at the southern border.
Organized by the Center for Popular Democracy Action and the Women’s March, a group that spearheaded the original Women’s March in January 2017, the demonstration in Washington, D.C., sought to end family detention, create an immediate process for family reunification, and abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Protesters marched past the Justice Department then staged a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building where they chanted, “What do we want? Free families!” and “This is what democracy looks like,” among other things, according to The Associated Press.
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