US activist protesters have flocked to the streets of Washington, DC, slamming the apprehension and deportation of immigrants by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
The rally drew hundreds of people to the streets in the Columbia Heights neighborhood on Monday night, blocking traffic outside one of the buildings that had been targeted by the immigration agents.
The protest, organized by the pro-immigration group Sanctuary DMV, was held as a response to reports that at least 15 immigrants had illegally been arrested by the ICE agents in various parts of the US capital last week.
“I talked with a number of the family members. Some of these people were fleeing death threats in Honduras or El Salvador. Some of them were fleeing poverty in Mexico,” said Ben Beachy, a local activist working with Sanctuary DMV.
