Protestors call for end to immigration raids

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, May 2, 2009

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer

Art Kubick, of Providence, and Brown University student Beth Fish hold up signs during Friday’s protest in Providence where demonstrators demanded changes in U.S. immigration policy outside ICE headquarters.

The Providence Journal Ruben W. Perez

PROVIDENCE

About 300 May Day demonstrators staged a peaceful but noisy rally outside the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office Friday afternoon, demanding an end to immigration raids and calling for amnesty for illegal immigrants and national comprehensive immigration reform.

Similar annual May Day rallies were taking place around the country.

“We have a very clear message to send to ICE — you are not welcome here in Rhode Island any more,â€