U2’s Bono lobbies lawmakers to end family separation

U2’s Bono has joined the emotional debate over the administration’s child-separation policy at the border, lobbying lawmakers to try to bring an end to a Trump policy that has blown up into a fierce policy fight.

The band’s frontman made the pitch to lawmakers of both parties as he was in the Capitol one behalf of his One Campaign, which seeks to maintain funding for global HIV / AIDS prevention.

Guitarist The Edge, who has less of a public activist profile than his bandmate, was also spotted in the basement of the Capitol.

A Statement put out by One said Bono was there urging lawmakers to ‘demand an end to the Administration’s family-separation policy at the southern border.’

Singer Bono of U2 greets people at the U.S. Capitol on June 19, 2018. Bono is Washington to meet with lawmakers about international development – and the family separation of child immigrant crisis

'I cannot think of a more un-American thing than warehousing children,' said Bono, who has spent years peppering his rock shows with activist comments. He rode the underground train which links congressional buildings as he traveled between meetings with lawmakers

‘I cannot think of a more un-American thing than warehousing children,’ said Bono, who has spent years peppering his rock shows with activist comments. He rode the underground train which links congressional buildings as he traveled between meetings with lawmakers

U2 lead singer Bono, center, walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018

U2 lead singer Bono, center, walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018

The Edge, who pushes for cancer research, also was spotted on the Hill

The Edge, who pushes for cancer research, also was spotted on the Hill

The band was in town for two shows.    

‘I cannot think of a more un-American thing than warehousing children,’ said Bono, who has spent years peppering his rock shows with activist comments.

Bono, who is Irish, said there were clear parallels to the Irish-American experience. Many of Ireland’s poor fled to the U.S. in the wake of the famine of the 1840s and poverty which endured for decades afterwards.

‘For anybody, but for Irish people, who were essentially economic refuges to this country, it’s very, very upsetting,’ he told the Associated Press.

According to the One Campaign, he visited the Capitol to thank lawmakers for funding programs to combat HIV / AIDS and fund international development.

During the Bush administration, he was a frequent presence in the Capitol urging passage of a huge aide package signed by President George W. Bush. 

‘Tell your lawmakers to suppsort the BUILD Act just like Bono,’ One tweeted out. 

He met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers.  

 U2’s guitarist, The Edge, also was spotted in the Capitol basement en route to Senate meetings promoting cancer research.

The Edge, also known as David Howell Evans, whose daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, issued a call for common ground, the Washington Post reported. 

‘It’s more difficult to find the common ground, but that makes common ground more important to find,’ he said.



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