Whoa!
This is a big story that I’m sure the Mainstream Media will not report!
So let us do the honors (together with our friends at Fox News).
Three Democratic Congressmen were arrested today in violent protests outside Trump Tower.
That’s right folks, Congressmen. And Democrats. Did you expect anything else?
Here was the breaking news Tweet with photos on the scene, and then scroll down for more details:
BREAKING: 10 arrested, incl. us and @RepEspaillat @RepGutierrez @RepRaulGrijalva @MMViverito, outside Trump Tower calling 4 clean #DREAMAct pic.twitter.com/0GByaPbTDv
— Make the Road NY 🦋 (@MaketheRoadNY) September 19, 2017
From Fox News:
Three Democratic congressmen were arrested outside Trump Tower after protesting the president’s immigration policies in New York City on Tuesday.
Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Illinois Rep. Luis Gutiérrez and New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat were taken into custody by police, according to Grijalva’s campaign Twitter account and a Gutiérrez aide.
Grijalva’s account tweeted that “Raúl was taken into custody in front of Trump Tower for civil disobedience along with Rep. Gutierrez and Rep. Espaillat.”
Douglas Rivlin, Gutiérrez’s communications director, confirmed that the congressman was arrested.
Photos taken at the scene and posted on social media show the Democrats, all of whom are Latino, sitting in the street.
The lawmakers were part of a group protesting the president’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that shields young illegal immigrants who entered the country as children from deportation.
Trump has argued former President Barack Obama’s executive action was unlawful but has asked Congress to take up the issue.
“We’re taking the necessary steps to make it clear to President Trump, the Republicans and the Democrats that we will continue this peaceful fight for DREAMers and immigrants as long as it takes to enact legislation and put DREAMers in a safe place,” Gutiérrez said in a statement.
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