Update: And then there’s this, from Steve King. Wow–referring to young immigrants who want to participate in their political process as “illegal aliens” to keep out. Keeping it classy, Rep. King:
#Immigration: Illegal aliens in House Judiciary Committee room during hearing today. How can we secure border if we can’t secure our room?
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) May 22, 2013
For weeks, DREAMers and their supporters have been a force at the Senate Judiciary Committee markups, where they’ve served as personal illustrations as to how immigration reform would change people’s lives. Here’s a video of DREAMers, and others, cheering after the final vote sending the immigration bill out of markup yesterday:
Senate markup is over now, but there is a House Judiciary Committee hearing today [led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)]–and apparently, DREAMers and their T-shirts were deemed too inappropriate for that.
As Julieta Garibay of United We DREAM just tweeted:
Was just informed our #11milliondreamd shirts are too disruptive for #HJC Can’t wait 2 show how disruptive 11million+ supporters can be
— Julieta Garibay (@dreamelder) May 22, 2013
The offending t-shirts?
Pic of our #11milliondreams disruptive shirt @unitedwedream twitter.com/dreamelder/sta…
— Julieta Garibay (@dreamelder) May 22, 2013
