Activist interupt Pelosi's Press Confrence on Dreamers - Page 21

2Face · 2Face

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Originally Posted by Smooth

Guys, call Pelosi's office and say UWD does not represent you.

THIS! We need to take the fight to UWD. They are against Dream Act 100%!

Papoose · Papoose

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Originally Posted by Chilango_Tejano

These are the same Bernie or bust BROs that cost the Democrats the election. Now their 11million or bust could cost us the dream act compromise . The same far left loons that Hannity and O'Reilly always talk about.

I think you are wrong. These are the crooked hillary supporters that costs us the election.

soypana · soypana

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Protesters angrily confronted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday — and she tried in vain to quiet them — about her emerging agreement with President Trump to provide legal protections to young undocumented immigrants.

In a dramatic exchange in her home town of San Francisco, Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) appeared at an event designed to call on Congress to immediately pass the Dream Act, bipartisan legislation that would enshrine legal protections for hundreds of thousands of “dreamers” into law. But after Pelosi spoke, about 40 protesters walked up to the front of the room and started shouting, taking over an event where Lee, Huffman and other activists had yet to speak.

She had just recounted to the crowd details of a dinner meeting last week with Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) where they discussed crafting an agreement that would couple the Dream Act with unspecified plans to bolster security along the U.S.-Mexico border. The deal would allow the roughly 700,000 people enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program to stay in the country after the program ends in early March. Trump pulled the plug on the Obama-era program last month, calling on Congress to make the legal protections permanent by law.

“We made it clear that we cannot have any trust and conversation unless we address the Dream Act passed,” Pelosi said she told Trump, adding later that she wants the bill “to be the basis of how we go forward. We have made it clear: We are not giving up our fight to protect America’s dreamers from the cruelty of deportation.”

As she concluded her remarks, roughly 40 people rushed the stage and started chanting loudly while Pelosi, her security detail, Lee and Huffman watched. They identified themselves as “undocumented youth” — presumably beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or other dreamers — but there was no way to clarify their status.

“We are not a bargaining chip!” the protesters chanted, according to local reporters.

“All of us or none of us,” they said later.

The protesters demanded “a clean bill” — meaning that the Dream Act would get an up-or-down vote on its own without any language regarding border security attached. They “demanded” that Pelosi show a commitment to protecting “all 11 million” undocumented immigrants believed to be in the country.

“We demand accountability. Democrats are not the resistance of Trump. We are!” they shouted.

One male protest leader then started a call and response with the group, addressing Pelosi directly and pointing his finger at her: “Congresswoman Pelosi! You called this press conference in our name to defend the so-called Dream Act,” they said.

“First you said you supported a clean Dream Act. And last week you announced that you had agreed and I quote you, ‘To work out a package of border security.’ Your words. Or were you misquoted? We cannot say, however, that we are surprised,” they added.

They also complained that the Obama administration had systematically deported hundreds of thousands of people.

“Where was your resistance then?” they asked.

“Okay, you’ve asked your questions,” Pelosi said, cutting in.

But they kept shouting, so she let them continue shouting.

“You’ve asked some questions. You’ve asked some questions!” Pelosi shouted.

“Let us speak! Let us speak!” they shouted in reply.

“You have,” she said.

After nearly 30 minutes, Pelosi and other invited speakers departed.

Pelosi chased out of her own news conference pic.twitter.com/Afqnzu9woM

The protesters were identified as members of the local chapters of RISE, Faith in Action and the California Youth Immigrant Justice Alliance, according to Pelosi aides. The activists are among the most progressive and vocal protesters and their tactics are not widely employed at similar events nationwide.

Pelosi is not the first — and likely won’t be the last — Democratic official to be confronted by immigration activists. Several times over the course of his presidency, young immigration rights protesters shouted at President Barack Obama during official events, campaign rallies or campaign fundraisers. Given their distance from the president, he usually succeeded in shouting them down or U.S. Secret Service escorted them from the room.

In this case, Pelosi had to stand by, with cameras rolling, as they continued shouting. Her own official Facebook page had been live-streaming the event and her aides encouraged out-of-town reporters to watch it, but the feed cut out as the protesters persisted. A Pelosi aide said later that “Internet problems in the room” were to blame.

Speaking with reporters later, Pelosi said the protesters were “completely wrong” to blame Democrats for the nation’s current struggles to enact comprehensive immigration reform.

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“The Democrats are the ones who stopped their assault on sanctuary cities, stopped the wall, the increased deportations in our last bill that was at the end of April, and we are determined to get Republican votes to pass the clean DREAM Act,” she said. “Is it possible to pass a bill without some border security? Well, we’ll have to see. We didn’t agree to anything in that regard, except to listen and something that deals with technology or something like that – but nothing like a wall.”

“I wish they would channel some of that energy into the Republican districts so we can pass the Dream Act,” Pelosi added later.

Asked whether the protesters she faced were emblematic of wider Democratic Party concerns about her discussions with Trump, Pelosi said that from a political standpoint, she has no choice.

“Trump has the signature. And basically our conversation with Trump is, we don’t want to hear about anything that you may want to do unless we have shared values around the dreamers. And that’s our threshold,” she said.

Back in Washington, talks to sort out the specifics of the deal sought by Trump and Democrats are set to begin this week, but senior congressional aides said Monday that they had no details yet on plans to begin the talks or what they would focus on — if they ever commence.

Source:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.259afc50c01a

catportal · catportal

Call and leave a message on Pelosi's phone line!

2Face · 2Face

Trump: I am taking DACA away because I love the Dreamers and I want border security in exchange so we can pass a permanent fix:

Sessions: *licking his fingers, in a fucked up southern accent*..Illegal aliens take our jobs!

Dems: Great opportunity to start cutting a deal with Trump!

UWD: People! Trump is racist. He took away DACA (your temporary immigration fix!) Donate money to us ! FU Pelosi!

Dems: alright, forget these fuckers. We did our part, we are good, they will vote for us again anyway.

libertarian1776 · libertarian1776

Freedom Caucus = UWD, and other groups of the same intent.

Extremists will ruin everything, dont let these minority groups fuck it up for everyone!

i am pretty sure that the extreme left and right will sink the DREAM ACT. book it!!!

Smooth · Smooth

"all of us or none of us."

If we do not get any anything, UWD needs to be held responsible. I am so fucking pissed.

libertarian1776 · libertarian1776

#11millionorbust

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Originally Posted by Smooth

"all of us or none of us."

If we do not get any anything, UWD needs to be held responsible. I am so fucking pissed.

Gnome · Gnome

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Originally Posted by libertarian1776

#11millionorbust

This makes me angry. The "bust" part is all of us getting deported. Wow, what a play to play with our lives, these extreme left groups.

2Face · 2Face

Now when Dream act fails anyone who tries blaming Trump should be slapped across their face. He's willing to sign the fucking bill. It is OUR Groups that don't want it to include Border Security I can't believe what's going on. All momentum lost. When a bigshot politician like Pelosi walks away, it says a lot.

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