LACLAA ( Labor Committee for Latin American Advancement) organized a dynamic demonstration today at the ICE offices in Sacramento to oppose the policies of jailing children and to slow down ICE. Photos, videos, and sound recordings contributed to the scene.
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| Desiree Rojas |
Desiree Rojas, Sacramento LACLA President pointed to large photos and said we have now seen children put into dog kennels. We have seen ICE Separate families. And, we must resist.
“We will fight for the children ! We will fight back against ICE !”
LACLAA , a part of the AFL-CIO, has been organized and active in Sacramento since 1982 and was particularly active in the anti NAFTA efforts and in organizing annual Cesar Chavez marches.
Local residents of the Japanese Citizens League, who had themselves been incarcerated in 1942 in the Japanese Incarceration told of their stories. And, how the incarceration haunted them for decades.
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| Fabrizio Sasso |
Fabrizio Sasso, Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council described today’s effort as a part of the battle for Freedom and Democracy.
Duane Campbell (DSA) the Co Chair of the Immigrants’ Rights Committee of Democratic Socialists of America told the crowd of some 200 of the DSA campaign to Abolish ICE.
“This issue before us is one of human decency. Under the Trump Administration ICE has developed a new policy of deliberately separating families of immigrants and refugees. They are separating parents from their children as a form of collective punishment. We have seen the photos. We know what is happening!
Now they claim to have changed the policy and they will keep the children with the families—in jail!
