VIDEO: Protest Emerges at Today’s Immigration Hearing in Congress

Feb 5, 2013
2:34 PM

Today during an immigration hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, a group of DREAMers interrupted the proceedings and were then escorted out of the building.

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Here is a clip of the protest, which occurred right after both San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro and Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez spoke. A Facebook post identified one of the protesters as Jerssay Arredondo.

For a complete video of today’s hearing, you can go to this C-SPAN link.

Here are some tweets that were shared during the time of the protest.