Pelosi's Response
 

Chanting pro-immigrant slogans — “All of us or none of us,” “Democrats deport” and “We are not a bargaining chip” — more than 60 young people overwhelmed a Monday news conference that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had organized on her home turf in San Francisco to urge passage of the DREAM Act to protect immigrants who were brought to the country as children.
After nearly an hour of boisterous chanting from the group, which called itself “Undocumented Youth,” Pelosi and fellow House Democrats Barbara Lee of Oakland and Jared Huffman of San Rafael packed up and left the carefully orchestrated event.
Among the dozens of people leading the disruption was Luis Angel. He called on Pelosi to fight for a “clean bill” that doesn’t make concessions to the Trump administration and includes a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S., without legal status, not just the 690,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the president recently rescinded.
“Where were you when we asked to defend our parents?” the group chanted in a call-and-response led by Angel. “And now you tell us — you have the audacity to tell us — you have been fighting deportation. You are a liar! You are a liar! You are a liar!”
Outside the event at College Track San Francisco on Third Street, Pelosi briefly addressed reporters after leaving the assembly room.

“This group today is saying don’t do the DREAM Act unless you do comprehensive immigration reform,” she said. “Well we all want to do comprehensive immigration reform. ... I understand their frustration — I’m excited by it as a matter of fact — but the fact is they’re completely wrong.”
Pelosi pointed out that Democrats have been fighting to stop Trump’s effort to build a costly border wall with Mexico and his “assault on sanctuary cities,” while seeking to stem an immigration crackdown aimed at increasing deportations. But the incursion by the youth group highlighted continuing divisions on the left over immigration policy and over whether Democrats should try to work with Trump when possible.
Monday’s event was to feature personal stories from recipients of DACA as the lawmakers urged Congress to pass a bipartisan Dream Act, which has been a subject of debate for years. Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said they came to an agreement with Trump on proposed legislation during a dinner last Wednesday night.




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Re: Pelosi's Response
 

Someone please take some flowers to this woman as a sign of thanks and apologies. Next press conference maybe?

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you cant really have a healthy debate with them, when you start to sound reasonable thats when they start to shut you out.

extremists from the left and right live off the vitriol, if you start to make sense they will ignore you.

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Senator Pelosi, please understand they are not us!!!!!!

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I'd honestly push for their deportation. Save us the contributing members of society and trim out the fat.

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She's not a senator...

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Yes yes congress, I have been calling senator the whole day today... =..=;;

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That video is disappointing, we shouldn't carry ourselves in that manner in front of somebody who is on our side. We also need to understand that CIR isn't going to happen anytime soon therefore, we need to just focus on Dream Act for now. One step at a time. If we keep on acting like idiots on that video we won't get nothing at all, let's act like the good educated honest people that we really are.

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Or deliver to her office.

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At least she is not resentful because of what happened today. I wish we could apologize to her as a group... :( It doesn't help when we go against the people that are our allies.