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Protesters gather outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s home in Virginia

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June 22, 2018 at 9:22 a.m. EDT
Protesters demonstrated outside of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's house on June 22. (Video: Anonymous)

About two dozen people gathered Friday morning outside the Virginia home of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in response to the Trump administration’s policy on separating children from their parents at the border.

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According to an organizer of the protest, Nielsen was seen leaving through the back door of the home, in Alexandria, as the protest wound down around 8:30 a.m. It lasted about an hour.

Nielsen has become the face of President Trump’s family separation policy, which he halted in an executive order Wednesday. At least 2,500 immigrant children have been separated from their families over the past six weeks at the border.

Nielsen becomes the public face of Trump’s family separation policy

On Tuesday, she was heckled by protesters at a Mexican restaurant that is two blocks from the White House.

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