Members of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, gathered in protest outside Minneapolis’s Whipple Federal Building, claiming ICE agents have detained at least four people after they showed up for their scheduled immigration court hearings.
Leaders like Ward 9 Minneapolis Councilmember Jason Chavez are demanding an end to these practices.
“We’re going to be strengthening our separation ordinance,” says Chavez, “we’ll do that by working with community members that are leading the work on the ground because the folks on the grounds are the ones that are protecting our community.”
Member of The Interfaith Coalition on Migration John Benda describes what volunteers with his organization have seen.
“Our volunteers who do court watch here, are telling us the stories of agents waiting outside the court hearing rooms, and people think they’re free to go outside and they are apprehended.”
Advocates argue these arrests are a part of an aggressive, nationwide deportation agenda under the current administration.
You do what they tell you to do, and then they arrest you and deport you anyway.
