Minneapolis, Trump and immigration
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Iowa City community members called for accountability in a below freezing protest at the University of Iowa Pentacrest after the second fatal shooting in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this month.
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
Friday’s mobilization was planned as the largest action to date, including a march despite dangerously cold temperatures.
In the morning, thousands gathered outside the Minneapolis airport, forming a picket line so long it spanned the length of terminal for departing flights.
The “Ice Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom” demonstration, organized by community leaders, members of the clergy, and labor unions, called for a “no work, no school, no shopping” economic blackout.
Hundreds of businesses in the Twin Cities are planning to close Friday to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota. Community members are asking for no work, no school and no shopping,
A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday,