Watch Pelosi get shouted down by young immigrants at Dream Act event
An event with House Minority Leader
Dozens of young people who chanted they were “immigrant youth, undocumented and unafraid” silenced Pelosi, who was in San Francisco with fellow California Democratic Reps.
Pelosi was there advocating for the passage of the Dream Act, which would grant legal status to unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children among other protections.
The Dream Act — which has taken many forms over the years but never been successful in Congress — has been Pelosi’s and other House Democrats’ answer to the
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Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, have been working with Trump to try to compromise on DACA, with border security being a priority for Trump, and one of the reasons protesters showed up at Pelosi’s event on Monday.
The protesters urged Pelosi to “demand a clean bill” that doesn’t compromise with Trump and “shut down
“All of us, or none of us,” they chanted.
Pelosi tried without success to respond to their demands to fight deportation but was called “a liar.”
Pelosi eventually left the scene as the yelling continued.
“This group today is saying don’t do the DREAM Act unless you do comprehensive immigration reform,” Pelosi told reporters afterward. “Well we all want to do comprehensive immigration reform. ... I understand their frustration — I’m excited by it as a matter of fact — but the fact is, they’re completely wrong.”
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