Pro-immigrant activists were arrested at the ICE garage in Center City Monday morning after attempting to block vehicles from leaving the agency headquarters.⁠
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It marked another in what has become a regular, ongoing series of protests against ICE operations in the city and region. Clergy members from several Philadelphia churches prayed and sang “We shall not be moved” before taking up their positions outside the big metal garage doors.⁠
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This week, No ICE Philly and allied pro-immigrant groups launched “A Week of Action Against ICE and Collaborators,” seeking to bring attention to ongoing immigration arrests.⁠
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“We want the migrants coming in and out of this building to know that we stand with them, and God stands with them,” said Johnny Rashid, pastor of the West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship. “We want the public to see that their clergy and their communities know what ICE is doing is wrong.”⁠
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📝 by Jeff Gammage / Staff⁠
📸 by Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff