Above: Immigration protest in Hart Senate Office Building, June 28, 2018. By Win McNamee, Getty Images
Protests against the zero-tolerance policy on immigration that has resulted in children being imprisoned without their parents, going to court without an adult and families being detained have resulted in mass protests. We have reported on #OccupyICE protests that occurring across the nation, there were also mass protests in Washington, DC and around the country as part of #WomenDisobey.
In Washington, DC women-led protests shut down streets and occupied a Senate office building as Congress prepared to leave the capital for the Fourth of July recess without resolving the immigration injustice that is occurring on a daily basis.
Women shut down the street outside of the Department of Justice and marched through Washington, DC from Freedom Plaza to Capitol Hill.
NOW: Women’s march against immigrant family separation policy kicks off from Freedom Plaza. They’ll stop at DOJ before concluding at the Capitol where many marchers are anticipating arrest @nbcwashington @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/ngHYWESsfq
— Tom Lynch (@TomLynch_) June 28, 2018
This is what democracy looks like. It’s powerful, intersectional and it is led by women. #WomenDisobey #AbolishICE #EndFamilySeparation #EndFamilyDetention ?: @tkocreative pic.twitter.com/j6KSiORJMb
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 28, 2018
Retweeted Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews):
A look down the hill on Constitution approaching the Capitol, another idea of how big #WomenDisobey is. pic.twitter.com/Cl2Qfn86Hw
— maria tihui sanjurjo (@mariatihui) June 28, 2018
Inspiring stuff! #WomenDisobey: Hundreds of Demonstrators Arrested on Capitol Hill for Protesting Cruel Child, Family Detention – https://t.co/30KSutDeK6 via @commondreams
— Matt Carmichael (@MattCarmichael2) June 28, 2018
Calls to abolish ICE , boos and chants of “Shame!” as protesters march past Trump International Hotel. #dc #WomenDisobey #immigration pic.twitter.com/1udL4F6zkA
— Marissa J. Lang (@Marissa_Jae) June 28, 2018
#WomenDisobey have 10th Street shut down outside the gates to the DOJ, all shouting WE CARE on this march’s first sit-in demanding a stop to family detention. pic.twitter.com/5PAIHWISWH
— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) June 28, 2018
It ain’t ova!
Today was beautiful. I have so much hope. #WomenDisobey pic.twitter.com/vpGAISTk6W
— BlackFilmsonNetflix (@blknetflix) June 28, 2018
Unjust laws must be disobeyed. #WomenDisobey to protest the policies and laws that criminalize people seeking refuge and safety in the US.#EndFamilyDetention https://t.co/VirbOBagR4
— Victoria J. Richardson (@victoria6_j) June 28, 2018
REPORT: #WomenDisobey march shuts down DC streets to protest Trump immigration policies (videos) https://t.co/McSsLqLdtk via @realDennisLynch
— Joe B. Johnson (@joej2020usa) June 28, 2018
This is the beautiful sound of hundreds of women setting out to risk arrest in mass nonviolent civil disobedience to shut down the Dept of Justice to end the separation & detention of immigrant families at our border &in our country.#EndFamilyDetention #AbolishICE #WomenDisobey pic.twitter.com/Fp2K0YmVrZ
— Democracy Spring (@DemSpring) June 28, 2018
They filled the floors of the Hart Senate Office Building resulting in mass arrests.
#womendisobey rally in the Hart Senate building in D.C.
Arrests are being made.pic.twitter.com/ADWM92efHY
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) June 28, 2018
Deafening chants of “We Care” and “where are the children” in Hart Senate building where 1,000 plus women are demanding action on family detention. #WomenDisobey pic.twitter.com/m6ZTckHRF5
— Molly Haigh (@mollyhaigh) June 28, 2018
Thank you to every woman that participated! We are so proud! #womendisobey #breakbreadnotfamilies https://t.co/qHSU1gTiGh
— Beaton Photography (@kaybeaton) June 28, 2018
“We’re going to rise like water, gonna shut detentions down.” #immigration #protest #WomenDisobey pic.twitter.com/OC9mFsoWIQ
— Nathaniel Weixel (@NateWeixel) June 28, 2018
The numbers are in: About 575 people arrested at #WomenDisobey this afternoon, confirmed by Capitol police. pic.twitter.com/k1vnBlegQl
— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) June 28, 2018
LIVE: Over 600 women are being arrested right now in the Hart Senate building, for peacefully protesting Trump’s treatment of refugees pic.twitter.com/v3AI6qvhfX
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 28, 2018
630 women in foil blankets are being arrested in Hart Office building now as they chant “Abolish ICE” and demand an end to family detention. #WOMENDISOBEY pic.twitter.com/k3J1lmqIPA
— Women’s March (@womensmarch) June 28, 2018
The scene inside Hart atrium this afternoon as Capitol police started arresting women engaging in mass civil disobedience to protest family separation at our border. #WomenDisobey pic.twitter.com/kSURUqHju2
— Sasha Stashwick (@SashaLyutse) June 28, 2018
Thank you, WOMEN. If we make it through this time it will be because of you. #WomenDisobey @womensmarch https://t.co/3T3Il0YJaw
— Ken Horne (@HorneKen) June 28, 2018