Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at CPAC in 2013. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at CPAC in 2013. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are the latest conservatives to be confronted by protestors with audio of sobbing migrant children.

Chao and McConnell were leaving an event hosted by Georgetown University on Tuesday afternoon when demonstrators approached them.

“Why are you separating families?” one of the handful of protesters keeps asking, according to video footage of the event, an apparent reference to the administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

McConnell appears to immediately get into the car, but Chao responds to the protesters. “Why don’t you leave my husband alone?” she repeatedly says.

The protester answers, “I’m not trying to disrespect you, but why is he separating families?” Chao replies, “He is not.”

Other protesters ask, “How does he sleep at night?” as a security guard keeps telling them to back up.

“You leave my husband alone!” Chao says, pointing at the demonstrators before getting into the car.

This follows protests at the luxury apartment complex where White House senior adviser Stephen Miller lives on Monday night, in front of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen’s Alexandria home on Friday, and at a Mexican restaurant where Nielsen dined last week. During all of the demonstrations, attendees played the emotional audio obtained by ProPublica of immigrant children crying for their parents at the U.S. southern border.

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