U.S. Hispanic caucus members ejected from meeting about immigration raids

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Two members of the Congressional Hispanic caucus said they were removed from a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday, just two days after the agency's acting director abruptly cancelled a meeting with the CHC. On Thursday, Democratic Representatives Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois and Norma Torres of California said Republicans asked them to leave a meeting with the agency's acting director, Thomas Homan, about the rash of raids on immigrant communities.

She said the list initially excluded all members of the Congressional Hispanic caucus but that the Democrats were able to convince them to invite the caucus chairwoman, Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Caucus members said the decision to exclude them was striking as they had initiated the Tuesday meeting with Homan to discuss the raids happening in cities across the country.

The agency said Homan's decision not to meet with the Hispanic Caucus was because they had invited too many people and holding a meeting of that size without making it bipartisan would have broken congressional rules.

A bipartisan meeting with the acting director was arranged for Thursday, but members of the Hispanic Caucus were not invited.

The Democrats waited outside the meeting with other members of the caucus and held a prayer vigil for the families caught up in the immigrant raids.

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