It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Three Demcratic Congressmen were arrested this morning while protesting outside President Trump's Manhattan residence, to demand action to shield young illegal immigrants from deportation.
Democratic Reps. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) and Adriano Espaillat (N.Y.) were all arrested while rallying outside Trump Tower.
Protest organizers had said prior to the event that the lawmakers planned to get arrested.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
Is it even Constitutional to arrest someone just for protesting?
There is more to this for sure.
& although I wouldn't quite equate wanting DACA with wanting open borders...
I can still appreciate the slippery slope argument.
Pelosi getting shouted down by illegals yesterday,
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: Grambler
Pelosi getting shouted down by illegals yesterday,
I had missed this one. However, knowing how things on ATS can get ''spun'', I googled the event and found next to no reference to the protesters being here illegally, yet you label them all in a lump form as ''illegals''. Are you grouping all people who are pro Daca, ''illegals''?
In the “mic check” call-and-response style popularized by the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, the activists declared:
" We remember all too well how for eight years the Democrats laid siege to our communities, raiding and deporting nearly three million people, of our family members and loved ones. Where was your resistance then? Ms. Pelosi, did you think we would forget? We send a clear message to our fellow undocumented youth and community: We are the resistance to Trump! Not the Democrats!
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: Grambleryes, now I see the foundation of your comment. Thank you
originally posted by: Thecakeisalie
a reply to: Grambler
So we are protesting buildings now? hello the prez resides in the white house and is rarely in the tower!
Methinks the far left are protesting for the sake of protesting and it's cringeworthy. I don't mind the left but there is no need to go spinal tap and turn it up to 11. It's hard to watch how they quickly the left has derailed.
Then you have the trainwreck that is the right (see what I did there?) and while my disapproval of Trump is well known I've gotta applaud his 'rocket man' Kim Jong-Un reference which cracked me up, and now Elton John is stuck in my head.