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‘ICE Out of Everywhere’ demonstrations, including vigils and marches, follow Friday’s national strike
More than 300 demonstrations are expected to take place across all 50 states and Washington DC, today, in what organizers are calling “ICE Out of Everywhere”.
Organizers, led by the national grassroots organization 50501, say today’s protests are a response to a series of recent deaths involving federal immigration agents, including the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, the homicide of Geraldo Campos in an immigration detention facility in Texas and the shooting of Keith Porter Jr by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Los Angeles.
Activists said the killings reflect what they see as a broader pattern of excessive force, detention abuses and the militarization of immigration enforcement.
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I don’t get it? Why are these protests not anti government? Do they consider everything else that is going on OK?
Cutting healthcare, the obvious corruption, and destroying the American economy in multiple ways, and making Americans poorer by devaluing the US Dollar.
But apparently Americans are OK with losing their democracy, and people working 2 jobs living in poverty without healthcare!Protesting ICE is of course a place to start, but despite the protests ICE is still active in Minnesota!
Protests are pressure against those in power, not a magic wand. They’re helping move the national discourse.
A good deal of people attending the protests don’t actually want to fix issues like healthcare because it would mean raising their taxes and/or the taxes of people richer than them.
It’s why they voted for Hillary and Joe over Bernie Sanders. Twice.
