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TexasTowelie

(111,301 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:15 AM Mar 2017

Undocumented immigrants in United States stage rally by ICE building

Last edited Sat Mar 4, 2017, 02:49 AM - Edit history (1)

PORTLAND — Openly defying President Trump’s plans to step up deportations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, several hundred of them and their supporters staged a rally Monday right next to a building of the federal immigration agency.

“We are undocumented, and we are unafraid,” protesters chanted at the rally, held in bone-chilling rain near downtown Portland. Uniformed guards at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building kept an eye from behind windows on the peaceful protest, but they did not intervene. Some motorists driving by tooted their horns and gave thumbs-up in a show of support.

Speakers at the rally gave their names to the crowd and the media. Some said that while they are worried that this could bring them to the attention of ICE agents, they felt they had to speak out to dispel the climate of fear that has gripped the immigrant community in Oregon, where a few towns have a majority Latino population, and in much of the rest of the nation.

“I am very afraid,” Juan Avalos said in an interview. “But that’s the point today, coming out of the shadows. We will no longer be afraid, and this is the main point of the event.”

Read more: http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35325098-75/immigrants-in-united-states-illegally-stage-rally-by-ice-building.html.csp

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Undocumented immigrants in United States stage rally by ICE building (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
This made me cry luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1
Playing with fire here... RoadhogRidesAgain Mar 2017 #2
They should be afraid. LWolf Mar 2017 #3

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
3. They should be afraid.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:08 AM
Mar 2017

While I won't post details here, I can say that I am dealing with a deportation situation at work right now.

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