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'Occupy ICE' start emerging across US as immigration crackdown enhances

Saturday, 23 June 2018 9:10 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 24 June 2018 2:07 AM ]

A vandalized 1-800-GOT-JUNK billboard shows a message in protest with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their participation in separating children from their parents trying to enter the US from Mexico on June 21, 2018 in Emeryville, California. (AFP photo)

More and more people are joining protests aimed at occupying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the United Sates.

'Occupy ICE' was inspired by a protest that led to the indefinite shutdown of an ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday.

Up until Saturday, the protests went as far as blocking the loading dock of ICE headquarters in New York, setting up tents in front of an ICE facility in Los Angeles and gathering outside of a detention center in Washington state.

A protester holds a sign during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 19, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (AFP photo)

The protests are not being held by any specific group, yet members of the Democratic Socialists of America are involved in most states,

The Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the country’s southern border has outraged many both inside and outside of the US,

ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell told The Hill that the agency "fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference" and "ICE remains committed to immigration enforcement consistent with federal law and agency policy."

According to Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) organizer Marisa Holmes, “now is really a turning point where we have to ask ourselves what kind of society and what kind of world we want to live, what is acceptable to do to other human beings and what is not… “We cannot allow this level of dehumanization and violence to be normalized. It’s horrifying.”

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