Sinema Confronted In ASU Bathroom Over Immigration, Spending Bill

TEMPE, AZ — Senator Kyrsten Sinema heard directly from constituents Sunday who showed up at her classroom and followed her into the bathroom to demand she support the Build Back Better plan.

A video shows a group of people approaching the Democrat in the hallway of Arizona State University, where she is an adjunct professor. The video was posted by Living United For Change In Arizona (LUCHA), an organization "fighting for social, racial, and economic transformation."

"Senator, we want to talk to you real quick, can we talk to you real quick?" a voice asks.

"Hi, actually, I'm heading out," Sinema says.

Several people followed Sinema into the bathroom while expressing support for President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act.

One woman walked right up to the bathroom stall door as Sinema closed and locked it.

A woman who identified herself as Blanca called for a better path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

"We knocked on doors for you to get you elected, and just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don't support what you promised us," said Blanca, speaking from the entrance to the bathroom.

The activists kept speaking; Sinema did not respondas she washed her hands and left the bathroom, walking back to an office.

LUCHA claimed on Twitter that Sinema has been "completely inaccessible" and had not met "with the communities that elected her."

Sinema released a statement Monday claiming the LUCHA members "deceptively (entered) a locked, secure building."

Sinema said her students were seen in the video, and that they were "unfairly and unlawfully victimized."

The senator also said she has met with LUCHA"several times since I was elected to the Senate."

LUCHA activists also attempted to contact Sinema at a fundraiser in Royal Palms on Saturday.

Sinema and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III have said part of the Build Back Better Act, a $3.5 trillion spending bill, is too expensive to win their support. The vote on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill was also delayed last week.