Nine DACA recipients arrested at protest outside Trump Tower

Published September 5, 2017 6:40pm ET



Nine Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients were arrested while staging a sit-in outside Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to a press release from immigrant rights group Cosecha.

The nine people were taken into custody for civil disobedience in the moments after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced DACA would be concluded March 5, 2018, if Congress does not act to save it.

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