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More than a dozen people were arrested after hundreds of illegal immigrant students walked out of classes to march on Capitol Hill. Protesters urged Congress to pass permanent DACA protections for ‘DREAMers’ brought to the US illegally as children.

Over 1,000 DREAMers filled the Hart Senate Office Building Thursday to demand Congress pass a “clean Dream Act,” two months after President Donald Trump announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was being scrapped.

Protesters gathered in the main atrium of the Senate building, chanting “Clean Dream Act!” and unfurling massive banners that said “GOP we need a clean dream act by December.”

“What do we want?” “Clean Dream Act!” “When do we want it?” “NOW!” The silence ends here in Hart #DreamActNowpic.twitter.com/xhJKp656A9

— Brynna Quillin (@brynnaquillin) November 9, 2017

The first four floors of the building were so crowded that one US Capitol Police officer said the atrium sounded “like a football game.”

Defeaning in the Hart Senate office building as DREAMers take over the atrium in protest. “Like a football game,” police officer says. pic.twitter.com/Pb9WdFYpGy

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017

The “Here to Stay” day of action was organized by the activist group United We Dream, which also organized walkouts in 30 schools across 10 states.

Happening now: GW students walking out to join @UNITEDWEDREAM’s rally calling for a clean Dream Act. #DreamActNOWpic.twitter.com/sgxaqHUA0E

— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) November 9, 2017

“It’s been two months since DACA has been rescinded and we have no solution yet,” Bruna Bouhid, communications manager for United We Dream, told the Washington Post. “Immigrant youth are honestly fed up, and they are tired of waiting.”

Organizers defined a “clean Dream Act” as a bipartisan bill “without any additions or amendments that will put our families and the rest of our immigrant community at greater risk for undue detention and deportation.”

In Washington DC, the protesters marched from the Senate to the Capitol building, chanting “undocumented, unafraid.”