(UPDATE AT END FROM DHS SPOX) Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to leave a downtown Washington, D.C. Mexican restaurant Tuesday evening after a gang of screaming leftists with the Democratic Socialists of America and the Wobblies took over the restaurant and harangued Nielsen for ten minutes over the current border crisis. Neither the managers nor DHS security did anything to interfere with the protest. Nielsen’s security detail formed a small perimeter, but the protesters did not appear to try to physically attack Nielsen. While the protest was ostensibly about the migrant children separated from their families after they illegally crossed the border, the real motive for the protest was revealed when the protesters closed with prolonged chants of, “No borders, no walls, sanctuary for all!”
The protesters falsely yelled that 10,000 children had been taken from their parents. It is actually 10,000 children whose parents incredibly have sent them alone on the perilous journey through Mexico to sneak into the U.S. Only 2,000 children have been separated at the border from parents after they illegally entered the U.S. Both figures were reported by DHS.
DHS Sec. Nielsen leaves a Washington, D.C. Mexican restaurant after protesters harangued her for ten minutes over the treatment of illegal alien migrant children at the southern border, June 19, 2018, images from video by Osita Nwanevu via Twitter.
The restaurant Nielsen was dining at, MXDC Cocina Mexicana, is located around the corner from the White House at 600 14th St., NW. The failure of the management to protect their patron and other patrons will likely factor into decisions by others to dine there in the future.
“Members of Metro DC DSA confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner. Why should she get to eat in peace while thousands of migrant children sit in cages? See the video here: https://www.facebook.com/MetroDCDSA/posts/803611493171511 …
#abolishice #abolishcbp #FamilySeparation #FamilesBelongTogether”
Facebook link to video, which is also embedded below.
Members of Metro DC DSA confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner. Why should she get to eat in peace while thousands of migrant children sit in cages? See the video here: https://t.co/bv3ksvTOuQ#abolishice #abolishcbp #FamilySeparation #FamilesBelongTogether
— Metro DC DSA (@mdc_dsa) June 20, 2018
Video of Nielsen leaving the restaurant was posted to Twitter by Slate’s Osita Nwanevu, “DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe.”
https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1009229501488775169
Video of the protests was copied from Facebook and posted in four parts to Twitter by Smash Racism DC.
“Part one of a video of @mdc_dsa @DC_IWW and others shouting DHS Secretary Nielsen out of a restaurant. She doesn’t need to be kidnapping #immigrantchildren to deserve this treatment. Don’t give the regime a moment of rest. #KeepFamilesTogether”
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009234229899792385
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009237830600622081
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009238535193362432
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1009239238892769281
The Maryland-D.C. DSA plans to harass a “deportation profiteer” at their home in the D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia on Sunday, July 1.
DSA’s next Deportation Profiteer action is Sunday, July 1st, in Virginia.
We will be visiting a deportation profiteer at their home and letting them know that, as long as they are complicit in terrorizing our communities, they don’t deserve a moment of peace.
For attendees coming from the Washington DC metro area, transportation will be provided to the action. We will be meeting at 1:00 P.M. on Sunday, July 1st at the Franconia-Springfield Metro Station at the far southwest end of the Blue line and driving roughly one hour from there. Please meet us on the top floor of the parking deck just outside the metro station.
If you are NOT coming from the DC area, a representative from your area will contact you about transportation.
Due to the travel distance, this action will require a greater time commitment than previous actions. Be prepared to spend 4 hours hanging out with fellow leftists and letting an enabler of the internment & deportation system know what you think of them!…”
UPDATE: STATEMENT FROM DHS Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton via Twitter:
“While having a work dinner tonight, the Secretary and her staff heard from a small group of protestors who share her concern with our current immigration laws that have created a crisis on our southern border….@SecNielsen encourages all – including this group – who want to see an immigration system that works, contributes to our economy, protects our security, & reflects our values reach out to Members & seek their support to close immigration loopholes that made our system a mess…The Secretary has been working with Members of Congress for months in search of a solution and she will continue to do so this week.”
While having a work dinner tonight, the Secretary and her staff heard from a small group of protestors who share her concern with our current immigration laws that have created a crisis on our southern border.
— ARCHIVED DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) June 20, 2018
.@SecNielsen encourages all – including this group – who want to see an immigration system that works, contributes to our economy, protects our security, & reflects our values reach out to Members & seek their support to close immigration loopholes that made our system a mess.
— ARCHIVED DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) June 20, 2018
The Secretary has been working with Members of Congress for months in search of a solution and she will continue to do so this week.
— ARCHIVED DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) June 20, 2018