“We are here to say the Republican Party is dead to us,” a spokesperson for United We Dream declared in the halls of Congress. “We can’t let DACA disappear for our community.”

Another activist said the GOP is “dead” and “irrelevant” and “no longer speak[s] for the American people and the nation,” even though a majority of Americans in two national polls said they want illegal immigrant children sent back as quickly as possible. A Gallup poll also found that illegal immigration is now the “top problem” facing Americans.

Another activist called for amnesty for the parents of illegal immigrant children, and she said the Republican Party has been “killing” the dreams of illegal immigrants “in our communities.”