On Thursday, Sister Jean Durel of San Antonio’s Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word was arrested alongside approximately 70 other people who occupied the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building to protest family separation and the detention of immigrant children at the border.
After a prayer service on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, Durel and a group of protesters moved into the building, where some people laid on the floor in the shape of a cross wearing photos of children who died while in U.S. custody. When the group refused to leave the premises, they were arrested for the misdemeanor charge of crowding and obstructing.
