Thursday’s Capitol Hill demonstration was organized by several different groups including Faith in Action, a faith-based grassroots organization. “Leaders will denounce Trump’s latest Executive Action, which effectively jails children with parents, criminalizes immigrants, and worsens the humanitarian crisis,” organizers wrote in a statement. “They will also call on Congress to defund the US Department of Homeland Security, which is carrying out the president’s hateful agenda against immigrants.”

At the protest, dozens of people were packed into the rotunda of the building, holding signs that denounced Trump’s immigration policies, and quoted verses from the Bible. In the center of the demonstration, a group children draped in Mylar survival blankets—the same type immigrant children in shelters were given—sat down on the floor. “The thought of any children in cages breaks my heart,” Nan Collie, whose 9-year-old granddaughter was one of the children on the floor, told CNN. “It was really powerful for us to be here today together to make that statement.”

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