Thread: Occupy Protests Freeze ICE Operations From Oregon to Manhattan

article from the Daily Beast---only posted for info on how our government is catering to these people instead of defending our country.
Occupy Protests Freeze ICE Operations From Oregon to Manhattan

June 26,2018

Kelly Weill

Demonstrators are going after immigration authorities at their bases of operation, and it seems to be working.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has put some New York City operations on hold while a protest outside Manhattan’s main ICE facility stretched into its fifth day.

On Thursday, demonstrators set up camp outside a downtown ICE processing center that houses an immigration court and a temporary immigrant detention facility. By Friday, ICE was smuggling detainees out a freight exit reserved for the U.S. Postal Service in order to avoid the demonstrators. By Monday, ICE had postponed all immigration hearings in the building, without clear plans to resume.

“The original call was for a 24/7 presence to occupy this space and call for the abolition of ICE,” Marisa Holmes, an activist with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council told The Daily Beast. The group has been a leading coordinator of the demonstration, which began at the ICE processing center at 201 Varick St. Thursday night. On Monday morning, approximately a dozen protesters were blocking the facility’s doors.

Holmes said she and other activists were inspired by an occupation-style protest outside an ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. Beginning June 17, activists blocked all entrances to the facility, leading to its closure last week. Before dawn on Monday, Department of Homeland Security police re-entered the facility, although it is unclear when the facility will reopen, or whether federal authorities will attempt to remove the demonstrators camping outside.

Now 201 Varick St. is undergoing a shutdown of its own. On Sunday, the Department of Justice sent an email to immigration attorneys informing them that “there will be no cases heard at Varick Street on Monday due to the protests,” Gothamist reported.


“I’ve been told by immigration lawyers that it’s indefinite,” Holmes said of the shutdown.

“Hearings at the Varick Street Immigration Court are expected to resume as soon as public access to the detention facility is available,” the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which administers immigration hearings, told The Daily Beast in an email.

But as of Monday, the demonstrators weren’t moving.
Malú Huacuja del Toro, an acclaimed Mexican author who now lives in New York was among the small crowd sitting outside 201 Varick St.’s loading bays on Monday. The doors, which usually open to admit vans full of detained immigrants, were covered with anti-ICE posters. Leaning off a railing across the street, a young boy slowly sounded out the slogans to a friend: crush, melt, block ICE all summer.

“I want to show the Mexican people what the model of America is,” Huacuja del Toro told The Daily Beast of the demonstrators camped out around the building. “They’re very brave and they are winning a major victory today. They stopped deportations today.”
It’s unclear whether authorities will crack down on the 24/7 occupation. Until Monday, NYPD officers had patrolled the demonstration, arresting one person for allegedly obstructing an ICE van as it attempted to leave the facility Thursday night. Holmes said officers had thrown some demonstrators to the ground in the scuffle, but that police had otherwise kept their distance.

On Monday morning, DHS police showed up in force for the first time. The federal authorities asked demonstrators not to block doors used by other agencies that work in the 201 Varick St. building, including a passport office and post office.


“They want to be able to have access to those other things, so we’ve been accommodating because we don’t have any problem with the post office as an institution,” Holmes said. “We want postal workers to be able to do their jobs.”

But when protesters stopped monitoring the post office loading bay, ICE used it to ship out a van full of detained immigrants, Holmes and another demonstrator who witnessed the event said.
“We got word that there was a van that was rerouted—because they couldn’t use these exits—to the post office exit, which they used to take people out,” Holmes said, adding that she saw six handcuffed men being loaded into a van in the post office exit. “So this is the game they’re playing with the building: the idea that they don’t use the other docks for exits is wrong.

By noon on Monday, DHS officers had reclaimed an ICE loading dock door; officers had asked to pass through to collect records, a demonstrator said. When demonstrators let them through, officers took up position outside the door, encroaching on the bright banners and lawn chairs blocking the other doors.
Huacuja del Toro said she wanted ICE agents to consider their actions.

“If they cannot quit the job that is so inhumane, they should question why are we doing this, is this the country we want to live in?” she said. “I think they should think about these things, because they are dehumanizing immigrants. They are dehumanizing babies and kids. That is the program of the state right now. That’s the beginning of fascism.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/occupy...n-to-manhattan

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KELLY WEILL 06.26.18 5:06 AM ET

Demonstrators are going after immigration authorities at their bases of operation, and it seems to be working.

Why is the Secretary of DHS allowing this to happen?

Originally Posted by MW

Why is the Secretary of DHS allowing this to happen?

Perhaps it's because she's weak and has too much "heart" to do what is necessary to enforce our immigration laws.

Originally Posted by MW

Perhaps it's because she's weak and has too much "heart" to do what is necessary to enforce our immigration laws.

Yeah, she's weak and she isn't the only weak one..remember this

Chief of Staff John Kelly told FOX New's Bret Baier that President Trump's beliefs on DACA and The Wall have "evolved" since the campaign. Kelly told the Special Report host that presidential candidates sometimes "say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed."

"He has evolved in the way he’s looked at things," Kelly said of the president. "Campaigning to governing are two different things and this president has been very, very flexible in terms of what is within the realm of the possible."

Armed federal officers surround Portland ICE facility to contain immigration protest

Pictures and info:

8 arrests as federal police clear entrance to Portland ICE building
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@ https://www.alipac.us/f12/armed-fede...8/#post1604628

Enforce it!.


, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees

Where is the FBI and the DOJ? This includes Border Patrol and ICE officers as well.

• U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 7 › § 111

18 U.S. Code § 111 - Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees

• US Code
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(a)In General.—Whoever—

(1)forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or

(2)forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service,shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

(b)Enhanced Penalty.—Whoever, in the commission of any acts described in subsection (a), uses a deadly or dangerous weapon (including a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily injury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 688; Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6487(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4386; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320101(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2108; Pub. L. 104–132, title VII, § 727(c), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1302; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11008(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1818; Pub. L. 110–177, title II, § 208(b), Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2538.)

https://www.alipac.us/f19/assaulting-resisting-impeding-certain-officers-employees-359975/

Originally Posted by Newmexican

. . . Where is the FBI and the DOJ? This includes Border Patrol and ICE officers as well. . .

"A team of Department of Homeland Security officers from ICE and Federal Protective Services early Monday secured the building from the inside and began handing out vacate notices to those gathered outside."
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Photos taken at the scene show Department of Homeland Security officers, many of them donning riot gear, surrounding the cardboard campsite that has sprung up near the building on Southwest Macadam Ave. The U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed in a statement early Thursday that it had “initiated law enforcement action” to reopen the ICE offices around 5:30 a.m.

From: Armed federal officers surround Portland ICE facility to contain immigration protest

Arrest them, put them in jail and get it ON their records!