Pro-DACA protesters call Pelosi a 'liar'

Immigrant-rights protesters on Monday disrupted a San Francisco news conference at which House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had planned to promote the DREAM Act.

Pelosi and fellow Democratic California Reps. Barbara Lee and Jared Huffman were scheduled to speak about the legislation, which would provide a path to legal status to people approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and other undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. at a young age.


Instead, dozens of young people took over the event and called Pelosi “a liar” for saying she has fought against deportations.

A video from NBC Bay Area showed Pelosi shouting back at protesters, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The protest was organized by several Bay Area social justice groups, according to Luis Serrano, an organizer with California Immigrant Youth Justice, one of the groups involved.

“Democrats are representing themselves as the resistance when the reality is they haven’t done anything,” Serrano told POLITICO.

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A video tweeted by a reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle showed Pelosi and several others departing the event.

"We need to have a conversation, but that was completely one-sided," Pelosi told reporters afterward, according to a transcript from her office. "They don’t want any answers."

