As D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) prepares to travel to El Salvador this weekend on a trip she says will showcase her support for the city’s immigrants, she faces pressure at home from Latino activists who are calling her an unreliable ally.
In a small but noisy demonstration on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building on Monday, protesters shouted, chanted, whistled and blew air horns in the withering heat, demanding that Bowser’s administration do more to protect immigrant residents in the face of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
They said she and D.C. police should have done more to denounce or prevent the July arrests by federal agents of up to 12 immigrants living in the District, and they said that the nation’s capital does not deserve to call itself a “sanctuary city.”
