NEW YORK — “ICE out of New York!”
She asked for her last name to not be included for fear of her safety.
She said she wants to join the military, and that also played a role in her going to the protest.
Across the country, protesters also took to the streets in Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, Dallas and half a dozen other cities.
“And those who are able to stand up have a higher and urgent responsibility to do it today.”
“ICE out of New York!” — NEW YORK.
Thousands of people chanted those words Tuesday night in Manhattan’s streets and close to the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office as part of a nationwide rally against President Trump’s immigration sweeps and the use of the U.S. A. California military.
As she joined hundreds of other protesters in lower Manhattan on Tuesday night, Jeanet, 19, told NPR, “I want to be here for them because there are many voices in my community that can’t be here today because of fear of what the administration is doing.”.
She requested that her last name be omitted out of concern for her safety. She mentioned that one of the reasons she attended the demonstration was because she wanted to enlist in the military.
Being a member of the government, I believe it is more crucial for me to express my views and demonstrate that there are people who support the United States. S. . but still in opposition to the actions of this administration at the moment,” Jeanete stated.
Around the nation, demonstrators also took to the streets in Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and six other cities.
The Trump administration has pledged to detain 3,000 migrants every day. The DOHS has carried out raids nationwide to achieve that goal, from a meatpacking plant in Nebraska to a Dominican neighborhood in Puerto Rico to a parking lot at a Home Depot in Los Angeles.
It was a nonviolent protest in NYC. This stands in contrast to those in Los Angeles, where federal immigration agents’ immigration raids in some areas of the city over the weekend led to clashes between police and protesters.
When asked how many people were arrested, the New York Police Department did not immediately respond, but NPR reporters saw at least six people put in handcuffs.
Paula Lopez, 66, claimed that the situation is reminding her of her 1980 arrest by immigration officials in a New York factory.
“Seeing families being split up hurts me because I experienced that myself,” Lopez, who attended the demonstration with her sister, said in Spanish to NPR. “It is unfair; we come here to work and to make progress. “.
Queens resident Arfraz, 43, also recalls the time ICE removed a family member decades ago. According to him, it was traumatic.
He therefore felt that it was crucial to participate in Tuesday’s protest, particularly for the people he knows are afraid.
“They might be picked up by ICE, so they can’t necessarily show up to rallies, so I think we have to stand up,” Arfraz said, requesting that NPR not use his last name out of concern for his safety. “And the onus of standing up is greater and more pressing for those who are capable of doing so today. “..”.
