As the treatment of migrant children at the border has come under scrutiny nationwide, a moms group and other activists presented Sen. Mitch McConnell with a list of demands during a Tuesday protest at his Louisville office.

Mama's Hip Family Co-op members presented a letter to security officers that demanded McConnell take action on behalf of children at the U.S.-Mexico border by closing all camps, ceasing funding for detention campuses and reuniting all families that have been separated.

Mandy Olivam, one of the moms who attended the sit-in along with her children, Oak, Griffin and Ronin, said the group called ahead Monday and asked McConnell's office for a visit with the senator.

She said he didn't respond to them at that time and he was not in his office on Tuesday when they arrived.

"McConnell has a track record of nonresponsiveness," Olivam said. She said she and other protesters want their voices heard, and it frustrates them when they can't reach their legislators.

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Since the senator wasn't there, they planned a playtime protest, part of a larger national #ClosetheCamps initiative.

Last month, all but 30 migrant children were removed from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas after reports surfaced that they were being held in alarmingly poor conditions and attempting to care for one another with inadequate food, water and hygiene products.

Government rules call for children to be held by the Border Patrol in short-term stations for no longer than 72 hours before they are transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services, which houses migrant youths in facilities around the country through its Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The Louisville protesters read from a book about immigration called "Pancho Rabbit and The Coyote" to their children while camped out on the floor in McConnell's sixth-floor office on Broadway.

Cathy Graninger and Roxy Lentz came together and hung out in the hallway while the playtime protest took place. They've been friends for years, and said as soon as they heard about the protest, they wanted to be involved.

"This is the same way Nazi Germany went," Graninger said, adding that she finds treatment of children at the border to be unthinkable.

She gestured to the young children she could see through the glass door to McConnell's office. "Would you treat any of those kids like this?"

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Lentz said "people treat dogs better" than how children are treated at the Southern border.

They agreed that an ideal result of Tuesday's protest would be to see volunteers allowed to go "help those babies."

Those who gathered in McConnell's office were told to leave around 4:30 p.m. after being there for about an hour.

Around 100 other protesters gathered outside and held signs that had slogans such as "Families belong together" and "Never again."

Olivam said in the next few days they will watch for McConnell to respond to their letter. She said she feels the protest will also encourage other community members to be proactive about expressing their beliefs.

McConnell, while at a hemp facility tour in Louisville with the U.S. Agriculture Secretary, commented on the border issues.

"Just last week, finally House Democrats allowed us to pass an emergency humanitarian relief bill," he said.

"There was some controversy about it, but they did pass it," he added. "That’s designed to address the humanitarian crisis at the border. There are other challenges, but we have passed a $5 billion supplemental appropriation to try and help take care of the people who are massing on the border.”

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