Occupy Ice: protest camps expand across US amid calls to shutter agency

Activists target Ice facilities in cities including San Francisco and Philadelphia: ‘We’ll be here as long as we can’ Occupy Ice protests have spread across the US, with new occupations and encampments growing outside federal immigration facilities in San Francisco and Philadelphia this week. The demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) are escalating as progressive activists and some Democrats are calling for the abolition of the federal agency carrying out the Trump administration’s xenophobic agenda and widely condemned deportation machine. Continue reading... source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/occupy-ice-protests-immigration-families #Headlines by: Sam Levin in San Francisco

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