CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 500 people, including at least one member of Congress, were arrested and escorted from the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday [6-28-18] after staging a sit-in during a women-led march against the Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to illegal immigration. The United States Capitol Police charged approximately 575 people with unlawfully demonstrating, a misdemeanor punishable by a $50 fine, according to a police spokeswoman. Those arrested included Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, and the actress Susan Sarandon. Organizers said more than 2,500 women from 47 states participated in the protest. Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, spoke to the protesters with her 11-week-old daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, strapped to her chest. Other Democratic lawmakers also appeared with or spoke to the demonstrators, including Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and the Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez of New York and Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas…The demonstrators were protesting the administration’s immigration policies, including its former policy of separating children from parents at the border and its current policy of detaining families together. President Trump caved to public pressure and ended the family separations less than two weeks ago, but about 2,000 children remain in federal custody.”
-Niraj Chokshi, “Hundreds Arrested During Women’s Immigration Protest in Washington,” The New York Times online, June 29, 2018