"At least 500 women who took over the center of the Hart Senate building, protesting the inhuman and cruel zero-tolerance policy of Donald Trump and this administration, the separation of families, the caging of children, the imprisonment of asylum seekers who just seek a better life," Jayapal said in a video she posted to Twitter. “On my side of things, I ask my colleagues, let’s pass, finally, sensible immigration reform.”

Actress Susan Sarandon, who marched at the front as the protest made its way down Constitution Avenue, was arrested with a group of demonstrators. "I was moved by the passionate, committed response to ending the separation of families seeking asylum and the incarceration of children," the statement read. “Abolish ICE,” they shouted as more were moved out. “She doesn’t like to see parents and kids separated.”

In Washington, Capitol Police said 575 protesters were arrested and escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building in a mass demonstration that called for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and an end to migrant family detentions and the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. U.S. Capitol Police say they have charged roughly 575 people — including a congresswoman — with unlawfully demonstrating during a Capitol Hill protest of President Trump's immigration policies and family separations at the southern border. According to U.S. Capitol Police, the individuals are being processed on the scene and released. "We're going to be fighting until these families are reunited, fighting until families are no longer detained, and also for the defunding of ICE so they stop targeting our communities." She traveled to D.C. to march for all the people that could not march themselves. The Zero Tolerance Policy essentially states that all illegal border-crossings are taken to criminal prosecution, resulting in families being separated as the parents are sent to jail rather than keeping family together in a detention center. This isn't the first time Sarandon has been vocal about politics. Politics President Trump Attempts To Change Immigration Narrative After Reversing Family Separation President Trump Attempts To Change Immigration Narrative After Reversing Family Separation Listen · 3:48 3:48

Organized by the Center for Popular Democracy Action and the Women's March, a group that spearheaded the original Women's March in January 2017, the demonstration in Washington, D.C., sought to end family detention, create an immediate process for family reunification, and abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
About 575 women are arrested during a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building protesting the Trump administration family separation policy.