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    'Occupy ICE' protests emerge across the country

    'Occupy ICE' protests emerge across the country


    June 23, 2018

    Emily Birnbaum


    Protesters are occupying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the country, inspired by a Portland protest that resulted in the indefinite shutdown of an ICE detention center on Wednesday.

    "Occupy ICE" protesters are blocking the loading dock of ICE headquarters in New York, have set up tents in front of an ICE facility in Los Angeles and are gathered outside of a detention center in Washington state.


    Though the protests are not led by any one group, the Democratic Socialists of America are involved in most states, alongside groups associated with prison abolition, immigration rights and anarchist collectives. The protests are calling for an abolition of ICE and an end to what they call human rights abuses by the criminal justice system, alongside other reforms.


    The Portland protest began in response to the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border, a result of the administration's “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal border crossings.


    ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell told The Hill on Wednesday that the agency "fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference" and "ICE remains committed to immigration enforcement consistent with federal law and agency policy."


    The Hill reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for further comment.


    In New York, dozens of protesters organized by the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) are camping outside of an ICE office building in Manhattan on Saturday. They are blocking the loading dock through which ICE vans bring immigrants in and out of the building, MACC organizer Marisa Holmes said to The Hill.


    “For the last year or two, we've seen an escalation of repression, an escalation of criminalization and dehumanization of immigrants as a result of Trump's election,” Holmes said. “We’ve seen more of a consolidation happening of Homeland Security and ICE and unbelievable, indiscriminate capturing of people and detaining without due process.”



    “I think right now is really a turning point where we have to ask ourselves what kind of society and what kind of world we want to live, what is acceptable to do to other human beings and what is not,” Holmes added. “We cannot allow this level of dehumanization and violence to be normalized. It’s horrifying.”

    She said there have been no arrests but protests in front of the loading dock has prevented ICE from bringing people into the building. The protests began on Thursday and are ongoing.

    “They’re trying to rough people up one-on-one and deter us from being here,” Holmes said. “We continue to stay and we're going to bring more people and we're not going to be deterred.”

    In Los Angeles, protesters are blocking the driveway for ICE vans, according to the Twitter account “LA Against ICE," and have been doing so for at least two days.

    There are similar protests happening in Washington state, Utah, Chicago and other locations, according to reports.


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    ARREST AND FAST TRACK DEPORT FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    These groups are on constant alert for any reason to protest. They are well funded, George Soros especially involved, and have their printed signs and choreographed chants provided. They are bold and brazen and dangerous. It may lead to violence.

    With 25-30 million illegal aliens in America we cannot have peace and security. Prosecution and deportation, just as the president said today.
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    WE CAN PROTEST WITH OUR WALLETS

    ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO KNOW THIS WILL AFFECT YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS SPENT ON ILLEGAL ALIENS...NO SPRING BREAK OR FAMILY VACATION IN MEXICO.

    SPEND YOUR MONEY IN AMERICA!



    Today at the grocery store...I looked as Asparagus...yep, "Made in Mexico" and I put it back. Let it rot on the shelf.

    Avocado...some made in Peru. If made in Mexico...put it back!

    We have corn, we have spinach we have many vegetables to choose from NOT made in Mexico.

    Do not buy Tequila or their beer. Buy rum or vodka, bourbon...NOT made in Mexico.

    Yuengling beer MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA is what we buy. It is good and he was the 1st to come out to endorse Trump.


    CHECK THE LABELS

    FIGHT BACK AT THE CHECKOUT STAND

    PUT ALL MERCHANDISE FROM MEXICO BACK ON THE SHELF!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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