We confronted @SenateMajLdr and @SecElaineChao with @ProPublica audio of children separated from their families at the border while leaving a @Georgetown event. We must #AbolishICE & #AbolishCBP! #FreedomforImmigrantspic.twitter.com/ljv70F3F0L
— Roberto (@Roberto62543651) June 26, 2018

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday sprang to the defense of her husband, Mitch McConnell, as protesters grilled the Senate majority leader over President Trump’s family separation policy.
Chao can be seen outside a Georgetown event on video shouting “Leave my husband alone!” to protesters as they confront the GOP senator with ProPublica audio of children crying at a detention center.
“Why are you separating families?” the protesters yell at McConnell while the audio plays.
“Why don’t you leave my husband alone,” Chao retorts.

One protester then engages Chao and says: “I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but why is he separating families?”
“He is not,” Chao responds. “He is not separating families.”
The demonstrators shout back: “He has the power to stop it… How does he sleep at night?”
Chao then enters a black SUV and flees. Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.
Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy has left a few thousand children in limbo after they have been separated from their parents.
The incident with Chao and McConnell comes days after White house press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at a restaurant in Virginia, prompting Republicans to urge for “civility” in political discourse.