WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protesters heckled US homeland security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen as she dined at a Washington restaurant late Tuesday, chanting 'shame!' repeatedly at the woman who has become the frontline defender of the Trump administration's widely condemned practice of separating migrant children from their parents.

Activists from Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America confronted Nielsen at MXDC Cocina Mexicana restaurant and attempted to disrupt her dinner while she was surrounded by staff and security.