Dozens arrested at DACA protest at Trump Tower
Source: ABC News
Dozens arrested at DACA protest at Trump Tower
By MEGHAN KENEALLY Sep 5, 2017, 5:04 PM ET
Dozens of protesters were arrested in front of Trump Tower in New York after todays announcement that the Trump administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, five years after it was introduced.
A total of 34 people have been arrested, according to the New York Police Department. No injuries to protesters or police officers have been reported, and the crowd has thinned since it started.
If protesters were cooperative and turned over their personal information to police, including name, address and date of birth, they were given a special ticket and were not fingerprinted, officials said; those who refused to turn over their personal information were fingerprinted.
"Obviously if someone, now with this new information that we are getting out of Washington today, is a DACA recipient, I would urge them to be very careful about anything like civil disobedience. There are many other people who can undertake the civil disobedience. I wouldnt advise the DACA recipients to do it. In this city, there has been an approach that it is mindful, de Blasio said today.
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