Protesters blast audio of crying children outside Kirstjen Nielsen's house

"How do you sleep at night?"
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Protesters blast audio of crying children outside Kirstjen Nielsen's house
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Another day, another protest against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Days after Nielsen, who recently spoke in defense of the Trump administration's immigration policies at a press briefing, was confronted by protesters while dining at a Mexican restaurant (of all places), angry members from immigrant rights groups gathered outside her D.C. townhouse to make some noise.

According to Splinter, members of Casa In Action and Bend the Arc's advocacy group, Jewish Action, were some of the dozens of people who stood outside Neilsen's home on Friday morning, while she was reportedly inside.

Footage and photographs shared of the protest on social media show people holding signs that read "Child Snatcher" and "Immigrants Are #HereToStay." The group also played the audio recording of children in detention centers crying, and chanted things like, "how do you sleep at night?"

Footage also captured Nielsen exiting her house and walking past protesters to get to her car as they chanted, "Shame!"

Though President Trump recently signed an executive order to keep families together at the border, as of right now there doesn't seem to be any plans to do away with the government's strict "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.

So until more information on plans to reunite the more than 2,000 migrant children who've been separated from their families is disclosed, Nielsen may not have seen the last of protesters.

[h/t: Splinter]

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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