ICE protests spread across U.S.

Large-scale demonstrations have swept across the United States against Trump’s mass deportation ICE raids, and the broader police and military repression. Mass rallies took place in major cities across the country, including New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Louisville, Atlanta, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle and many more and in at least a half dozen Texas cities — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and others.

In Baltimore on June 9, hundreds of people filled the downtown streets to show solidarity with Los Angeles protesters and to demand ICE out of Baltimore and Los Angeles.  Speakers and shouts from participants demanded “ICE Out of Everywhere!”  

The action was part of regular Monday protests held in front of the Federal Courthouse and Detention Center, initiated by #EyesOnICE. The local protest grew in size and scope following the repression in Los Angeles by ICE, police and National Guard.

Here is a short clip of a speaker at McKeldin Plaza before protesters marched to the federal detention center.  

Additionally, over 30 protests were held across the country in support of David Huerta, president of SEIU California, who was arrested during a workplace immigration raid on June 6 and released on June 9. Huerta, who confronted ICE at a workplace incursion, was charged with federal conspiracy to impede an officer, which carries a six-year prison term.