United States: Protests against immigration raids

May 16, 2008
Issue 

@intro = Two hundred protesters from churches, unions and community groups marched and picketed outside the office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in downtown San Francisco on May 5.

On May 2, the day after marches took place across the country for immigrants\' rights, immigration agents arrested 64 workers at Los Balazos taquerias throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the employees had no criminal records, and were arrested for the crime of working to support their families.

On May 6, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums joined unions and community groups at Stonehurst Elementary School after ICE agents showed up earlier in the morning. Dellums and others protested the ICE activity in Oakland, which is a self-declared \"sanctuary city\" for \"illegal\" immigrants, just days after marches took place across the country for immigrants\' rights. Dellums talked with concerned parents, as worried children left school at the end of the day.

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