Dozens of nuns and priests have been arrested while protesting on Capitol Hill against Donald Trump‘s child detention policies. As part of a protest involving a number of religious groups, up to 200 priests, nuns and lay people sat ot lay down on the marble floors beneath the rotunda in the Russell senate building. At least 65 were then arrested and taken away by Capitol police.
The protests, which the activists called a “Catholic day of action for detained immigrant children”, was just the latest involving faith groups across the country, which have been holding events to draw attention to the president’s immigration and detention policies.
