A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building today (Thursday) to “demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by” Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
“Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end to violent, out-of- control immigration operations with ICE raiding communities and tearing families apart,” a statement from SEIU Local 221 said. The local represents more than 12,000 workers in San Diego and Imperial counties.
“The San Diego group says fear, displacement and dehumanizing politics used to attack and kill working people must stop.”
San Diego County Board of Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Paloma Aguirre are scheduled to attend the demonstration, along with members of multiple labor and activist organizations including as the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO, Unión del Barrio and San Diego Education Association.
The Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building was chosen as the site for the demonstration because ICE has a detention center there.
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