Pramila Jayapal Arrested: Pramila Jayapal Arrested for Protesting Trump's Border Policy

WASHINGTON: US MP Pramila Jayapal, the first Indo-American woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, was arrested during a protest against the "inhumane" "zero tolerance" policy of the United States. Trump administration.

The Administration's controversial "zero tolerance" policy of separating immigrant parents and their children from the US border has resulted in the separation of nearly 2,000 children from their parents and guardians, sparking a public outcry .

Jayapal, 52, was arrested with over 500 other women at Capitol Hill yesterday.

"I have just been arrested with a group of over 500 women who took the center of the Hart Senate building, protesting against the inhuman and cruel zero tolerance policy of Donald Trump and that administration, the separation of families, children, imprisonment of asylum seekers, "said Jayapal.

She was arrested on the ground floor of the Hart Senate office building for a sit-in as part of their civil disobedience action.

"These women understand that they come from all over the country … they understand that it goes far beyond politics, it's a matter of good and bad, we have to put ourselves ahead and put us in danger, "said Jayapal. who was elected to the House of Representatives of Washington state in 2016.

"Not in our country, not in our name, on June 30 we are back on the street," she said.

"I'm proud to have been arrested with them to put me in the camp of people who believe America's America is better," Jayapal said in a video posted on Twitter.

Jayapal, the only Indo-American woman elected to the House of Representatives, is seeking re-election to the mid-term elections later in the year.

She was the first member of Congress to visit a federal prison where parents were separated from their children.

According to reports, more than 500 people were arrested by Capitol police while they were organizing a sit-in protest at the Hart Office Senate building. They were accused of illegal protest and were quickly released.

Hundreds of people across the country must protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy at rallies hosted by a coalition led by the National Alliance of Domestic Workers tomorrow.

The public outcry over images and stories of children caught in the midst of Trump's immigration policy has sparked heated debate in the United States.