Trump’s DHS Secretary sat down for a meal at a Mexican restaurant; protesters then drove her out

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was seated at a table at a Mexican restaurant in Downtown D.C. this Tuesday evening, but she was soon confronted by protesters angry over her defense of Trump’s policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Interrupting her meal, protesters shouted, “Shame!” and “If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace!” as Nielsen tried her best to ignore them. Eventually, she left the restaurant.

Nielsen has become the face of Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy after she repeatedly defended the practice in public, inviting the ire of immigration advocates. In an op-ed for CNN, Arick Wierson called on Nielsen to resign.

“…I, like many Americans, watched in horror as Nielsen, now our nation’s Department of Homeland Security secretary, attempted to defend the indefensible at Monday’s evening press briefing aimed at defusing the swelling chorus of voices shocked by the images and sounds of children — some just a few months old — being torn from their parents’ arms by US border security officials,” Wierson wrote.

The people who heckled Nielsen on Tuesday were from a group called Metro D.C. Democratic Socialists of America.

“We will not stand by and let Secretary Nielsen dine in peace, while she is directing her employees to tear little girls away from their mothers and crying boys away from their fathers at our border,” Margaret McLaughlin, a member of Metro DC DSA’s steering committee, said in a statement.

“Secretary Nielsen and everyone else who has carried out these brutal and cold-blooded orders to rip apart families should never be allowed to eat and drink in public again.”

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“Kirstjen Nielsen will lock up your kids, no hesitation,” one of the activists says in a Facebook Live video. “Remember what her face looks like.”

Featured image via screen grab/YouTube

Sky Palma

Before launching DeadState back in 2012, Sky Palma has been blogging about politics, social issues and religion for over a decade. He lives in Los Angeles and also enjoys Brazilian jiu jitsu, chess, music and art.