Actress Susan Sarandon Among Hundreds Arrested At Trump Immigration Rally

Actress Susan Sarandon was among more than 500 women, also including a member of Congress, who were arrested and charged overnight after attending a demonstration in Washington DC.

Around 575 people gathered in the atrium of a Senate office building in DC and staged a sit-down protest in an act of “mass civil disobedience” against President Donald Trump‘s immigration policy.

Local law enforcement say that the protesters were arrested and charged with unlawfully demonstrating, then processed and released at the scene. In a statement to USA Today, Susan Sarandon said:

“I was moved by the passionate, committed response to ending the separation of families seeking asylum and the incarceration of children. This is a moral, not political question and I’m proud to have stood with the hundreds of women to say that we do not accept this. Unite families and abolish ICE.”

House Democrat Pramila Jayapal was also amongst those arrested, and after her release, posted a video to Twitter criticising the president’s “cruel, zero-tolerance policy.”

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who was present at Friday’s demonstration, posted a video of the event to social media saying that the women had gathered to protest “this inhumane policy by the Trump administration to separate families at the border.”

Trump recently called an end to the policy of separating families at the US border following an international outcry, but many children remain separated from their parents, and uncertainty remains as to when and if many will be reunited.

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