Protests Over Immigration Raids Pop Up Across The U.S. With More Planned | EUROtoday

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Donald Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to unfold throughout the nation, with extra deliberate into the weekend.

From Seattle and Austin to Chicago and Washington, D.C., marchers have chanted slogans, carried indicators towards the Immigration and Customs Enforcement company and snarled visitors via downtown avenues and outdoors federal places of work. While many have been peaceable, some have resulted in clashes with regulation enforcement as officers made arrests and used chemical irritants to disperse crowds.

Activists are planning extra and even bigger demonstrations within the coming days, with “No Kings” occasions throughout the nation on Saturday to coincide with Trump’s deliberate navy parade via Washington.

The Trump administration mentioned it might proceed its program of raids and deportations regardless of the protests.

“ICE will continue to enforce the law,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted Tuesday on social media.

A have a look at some protests throughout the nation:

About 150 protesters gathered outdoors the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon and marched to ICE headquarters for speeches after which again to the detention middle, in keeping with Philadelphia police.

A gaggle then walked although what police known as main roads utilizing bicycles to impede officers, prompting police to difficulty a number of orders for folks to disperse. Police mentioned demonstrators ignored the orders and issues escalated when officers began arresting folks.

Fifteen folks have been arrested, one on allegations of aggravated assault on police, and the remainder for disorderly conduct, police mentioned. Several officers used power throughout the arrests and their conduct might be reviewed, police mentioned. Police didn’t say particularly what sort of power was used. Two officers had minor accidents and have been handled at a hospital. Two females who have been arrested reported minor accidents and have been receiving medical consideration, police mentioned.

About 20 folks remained peacefully gathered outdoors the detention middle as of Tuesday evening, police mentioned.

About 200 protesters gathered outdoors the San Francisco Immigration Court on Tuesday after activists mentioned a number of arrests have been made there.

That gathering got here after protests on Sunday and Monday swelled to a number of thousand demonstrators and noticed greater than 150 arrests with outbreaks of violence that included vandalized buildings, and broken automobiles, police autos and buses. Police mentioned two officers suffered non-life threatening accidents.

Most of the arrests have been Sunday evening.

“Individuals are always free to exercise their First Amendment rights in San Francisco, but violence, especially against SFPD officers, will never be tolerated,” San Francisco police posted on social media.

Police described Monday’s march as “overwhelmingly peaceful,” however mentioned “two small groups broke off and committed vandalism and other criminal acts.” Several folks have been detained or arrested, police mentioned.

About 50 folks gathered outdoors the immigration court docket in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, chanting with drums and holding up indicators that mentioned, “Free Them All; Abolish ICE” and “No to Deportations.” Protesters started placing scooters in entrance of constructing entryways earlier than police arrived.

Mathieu Chabaud, with Students for a Democratic Society on the University of Washington, mentioned they have been there in solidarity with the Los Angeles protesters, “and to show that we’re opposed to ICE in our community.”

Legal advocates who usually attend the immigration court docket hearings as observers and to supply assist to immigrants weren’t allowed contained in the constructing. Security guards additionally turned away the media. The hearings are usually open to the general public.

A mass of individuals rallied in decrease Manhattan on Tuesday night to protest deportations and federal immigration coverage.

Demonstrators gathered outdoors two federal buildings that home immigration courts and commenced marching amid a heavy police presence.

Some protesters held indicators studying “ICE out of New York” and others chanted, “Why are you in riot gear? I don’t see no riot here.”

New York City police mentioned a number of folks have been taken into custody. There have been no rapid costs.

In Chicago, a small crowd gathered Tuesday outdoors immigration court docket in downtown and known as for an finish to Trump administration immigration sweeps and navy presence in California.

“With the militarization of Los Angeles it’s time to get out and let Trump know this is unacceptable,” mentioned retiree Gary Snyderman. “All of this is so unconstitutional.”

The group then marched via downtown streets drumming and chanting, “No more deportations! and “Trump must go now.” A lady at one level drove a automotive shortly via the road full of protesters, inflicting them to dart out of her method. It was not instantly recognized whether or not anybody had been injured.

The demonstration had grown to no less than a thousand protesters by late Tuesday, remaining comparatively peaceable with restricted engagement between the group and law enforcement officials.

A gaggle of protesters gathered in entrance of the Colorado state capitol in Denver on Tuesday, making a sea of cardboard indicators, one exhorting: “Show your faces. ICE cowards.”

The group, impressed by the Los Angeles protests over the previous a number of days, cut up in half, marching down two completely different thoroughfares and crowding out visitors.

A big police presence wasn’t seen initially, however a couple of officers started blocking a avenue behind the the marchers.

In Santa Ana close to Los Angeles, armored autos blocked the highway Tuesday morning main into the Civic Center, the place federal immigration officers and quite a few metropolis and county companies have their places of work.

Workers swept up plastic bottles and damaged glass from Monday’s protests. Tiny shards of crimson, black and purple glass littered the pavement. Nearby buildings and the sidewalk have been tagged with profane graffiti slogans towards ICE and had Trump’s title crossed out. A employee rolled paint over graffiti on a wall to dam it out.

National Guard officers carrying fatigues and carrying rifles prevented folks from coming into the realm until they labored there.

While a small group saved up their demonstration Tuesday, a number of counter-protesters confirmed up. One man wore a crimson T-shirt and Make America Great Again cap as he exchanged phrases with the group opposing the raids.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus confirmed that Texas Gov. Greg Abbot despatched members of the state’s National Guard to the town upfront of protests anticipated this week, Assistant Chief Jesse Salame informed The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“We don’t have any additional details about their deployment,” Salame mentioned.

Soldiers have been “on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed,” Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris mentioned Tuesday night.

Four Austin law enforcement officials have been injured and authorities used chemical irritants to disperse a crowd of a number of hundred demonstrators Monday evening that moved between the state Capitol and a federal constructing that homes an ICE workplace. State officers had closed the Capitol to the general public an hour early in anticipation of the protest.

Austin police used pepper spray balls and state police used tear fuel when demonstrators started attempting to deface the federal constructing with spray paint. The demonstrators then began throwing rocks, bottles and different objects at a police barricade, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis mentioned. Three officers have been injured by “very large” rocks and one other was injured whereas making an arrest, she mentioned.

Austin police arrested eight folks, and state police arrested 5 extra. Davis mentioned her division is ready for Saturday’s deliberate protest downtown.

“We support peaceful protest,” Davis mentioned. “When that protest turns violent, when it turns to throwing rocks and bottles … that will not be tolerated. Arrests will be made.”

A protest that drew lots of to a rally on a metropolis bridge lasted for a number of hours Monday evening earlier than Dallas police declared it an “unlawful assembly” and warned folks to go away or face attainable arrest.

Dallas police initially posted on social media that officers wouldn’t intervene with a “lawful and peaceful assembly of individuals or groups expressing their First Amendment rights.” But officers later moved in and media reported seeing some within the crowd throw objects as officers used pepper spray and smoke to clear the realm. At least one individual was arrested.

“Peaceful protesting is legal,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, posted on X. “But once you cross the line, you will be arrested.”

Hundreds of individuals gathered in Boston’s City Hall Plaza on Monday to protest the detainment of union chief David Huerta Friday throughout immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Protesters held indicators studying “Massachusetts stands with our neighbors in Los Angeles” and “Protect our immigrant neighbors,” and shouted, “Come for one, come for all” and “Free David, free them all.”

Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California, was launched from federal custody later Monday on $50,000 bond.

“An immigrant doesn’t stand between an American worker and a good job, a billionaire does,” mentioned Chrissy Lynch, President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO.

Several unions gathered Monday in Washington to protest the raids and rally for Huerta’s launch, and marched previous the Department of Justice constructing.

Among the demonstrators was U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state.

“Enough of these mass ICE raids that are sweeping up innocent people,” Jayapal mentioned. “As we see people exercising the constitutional rights to peacefully use their voices to speak out against this injustice, they are being met with tear gas and rubber bullets.”

Associated Press writers Martha Bellisle in Seattle, Sophia Tareen in Chicago, Leah Willingham in Boston, Michael Hill in New York, Jesse Bedayn in Denver and Amy Taxin in Santa Ana, California, contributed.