Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was arrested at a rally to protest the conditions migrant families and children are being kept in under President Donald Trump‘s immigration policy.

Earlier on Thursday, Jayapal sent out his tweet, showing her arm held up and surrounded by #FamiliesBelongTogether protesters at the nation’s capital.

“We are in ALUMINUM blankets to symbolize the shoddy conditions children and mothers are being held in,” she tweeted out.

We are in ALUMINUM blankets to symbolize the shoddy conditions children and mothers are being held in.#FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/A7whBWqVG1

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 28, 2018

Video of the protest showed mostly women sitting and chanting at the Hart Building. It is unclear what, exactly, precipitated the arrests.

Rowdy protest underway in the Senate's Hart building, with women sitting down, chanting and protesting inaction in dealing with immigration. https://t.co/a5SlX89ztL

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 28, 2018

In response to her arrest, the Congresswoman sent out a second tweet noting she was among 500 arrested.

“So I got arrested,” she began, added that there were approximately 500 women who were arrested with her on Capitol Hill. “These women..they understand that it is far beyond politics, this is about right and wrong and we have to stand up.”

She also pledged to participate in another protest this weekend, writing on Twitter, “June 30 we’re putting ourselves in the street again.”

I was just arrested with 500+ women and @WomensMarch to say @RealDonaldTrump’s cruel zero-tolerance policy will not continue. Not in our country. Not in our name.
June 30 we’re putting ourselves in the street again.

Join us. https://t.co/DdRHeFtTTr pic.twitter.com/P9uK0Z1Zay

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 28, 2018

[image via Twitter]

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