Hispanic Democrats barred from meeting with ICE director amid increased raids
Source: Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON Simmering tensions in the Capitol about President Donald Trumps immigration executive orders boiled over Thursday, as several members of the Hispanic Caucus were kicked out of a meeting with a top immigration official by staffers of Speaker Paul Ryan.
Those who were allowed in described a combative encounter with promises of many more arrests and deportations to come.
Theres never been a meeting like this, said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Ive never seen anything like it.
The hour-long meeting with acting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan covered a range of concerns about recent arrests and deportations around the country, though members said they left the meeting with many questions unanswered.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/02/16/hispanic-democrats-barred-meeting-ice-director-amid-increased-raids
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Neo-Nazis only please.
gopiscrap
(24,778 posts)another sign of dictatorship
yuiyoshida
(45,655 posts)Sit on the floor and be dragged out by Police if necessary, just to show them, they are protesting this crap!
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Complete with Michelle Malkin or Dnesh D'Souza expounding on how "violence and rioting is inherent in the Hispanic culture, and this is what this administration is trying to fight."
yuiyoshida
(45,655 posts)fuck it, LETS ADD ASSAULT to the CHARGES, (Punch someone in the nose!)

Bear Creek
(883 posts)The whole lot. Unamerican. Today they said they only represent the republicans who elected them and not all the people in thier districts
neeksgeek
(1,250 posts)dhill926
(16,953 posts)we are there folks..
still_one
(98,883 posts)racist, sexist, ignoramus
barbtries
(31,349 posts)and now shit is going bad at work too.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Someone forgets their place in the pecking order...
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