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Vigil in San Jose’s Japantown organized by the Nikkei Resisters and others, who pointed out that Fort Sill, proposed as a holding pen for immigrant children, was also used as a Japanese internment camp in the 40s and to imprison Apaches before that. The slogan is Never Again is Now.
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Men, women and children from all walks of life rallied in 50 states (and 13 foreign countries) in defense of immigrants, with demands to protect children, close the abhorrent detention camps, stop deportations and abolish ICE.
Also, mayors, city officials and police departments are rejecting Trump’s mass deportation raids. The Chicago mayor directed the police department to not cooperate and broke the city’s contract with ICE. The San Francisco mayor said the city will not cooperate and directed people to call a hotline to help immigrants. The Los Angeles police department is refusing to participate in or enforce ICE’s deportation efforts. New York City, Atlanta and Denver issued statements in defense of immigrants.
Activists are demanding that officials in these cities do more. What these officials have done so far has been propelled forward by the people in these cities, those who have expressed their outrage at the inhumanity of the U.S. government in rounding up workers.
After Wayfair, a Boston furniture store sold furniture to the camps, hundreds of workers walked out. Rosanna Rodriguez, a recently elected Chicago Alderperson, reacted with this post on Facebook: “So, I think it’s time to walk out. We can’t continue to stand and watch the horror without taking meaningful action against immigrant concentration camps. I know this is not an easy thing to organize . . . we are also organizing against raids and to protect our neighbors right here. I also need to believe that we are able to show solidarity and humanity during these times of horror. There is real power in withholding our labor. Chicago, are we ready to walk out?”
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