{"id":36230,"date":"2026-01-30T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/01\/30\/dozens-of-faith-leaders-arrested-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:24:00","slug":"dozens-of-faith-leaders-arrested-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/01\/30\/dozens-of-faith-leaders-arrested-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of faith leaders arrested in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of faith leaders were \u200barrested in Washington on Capitol Hill while protesting President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies and calling for funding to be restricted for \u2060the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, organizers said on Thursday.       &#8220;Today, \u200cpowerful faith \u2060leaders took action in the halls of the U.S. Senate,&#8221; Faith in Action \u200dsaid in a statement. It also said that ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security, had been &#8220;terrorizing&#8221; \u2060communities.       Members of the organizing group sat on the floor of the Hart Senate Office Building and carried banners that read &#8220;Do Justice, Love kindness, \u200cAbolish ICE.&#8221;       A U.S. Capitol Police spokesperson said &#8220;it is against the law&#8221; to demonstrate inside congressional buildings and \u2060that 54 demonstrators were arrested.       Visuals from the protest showed police making arrests as demonstrators sang while seated on the floor after officers warned them to leave.       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