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Never Again Means #ShutDownICE in Vermont

July 28, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Protest on Sunday, July 28, 2:30-5:00 in Williston! See details below.

Children are being separated from their families at the border and imprisoned in concentration camps. ICE raids are increasing in frequency and severity, instilling fear and terror into immigrant communities. People are dying at the border as they flee for their safety. Valued members of our local community are being rounded up as they shop for groceries and send hard-earned money to their families. We refuse to wait and see — we know from history what happens next.

On Sunday, July 28, we will gather at 2:30 at the Williston branch of Vermont Technical College — a recipient of ICE contract funds — at the intersection of Helena Drive and Essex Road in Williston. At 3PM we will begin our march to the ICE Data Center (a.k.a. the Law Enforcement Support Center or LESC) at 188 Harvest Lane, Williston. For those who would like to join but are unable to march, please meet us at our destination point. We plan to arrive at 188 Harvest Lane between 3:45 and 4PM. The ICE Data Center has been quietly operating in VT for years and is the national nerve center that aids much of ICE’s work, providing data about people’s immigration status to federal agents and local cops, which can lead to arrests.This center operates 24/7 and employees approximately 400 workers.

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Community Voices for Immigrant Rights, July 28th Protest Demands:

The Trump administration and its predecessors have created a humanitarian crisis for immigrants and refugees in our country. Their economic and political policies have devastated Latin America and other parts of the world, driving millions of people to find sanctuary in the US. Once here, they have been met with super-exploitation as cheap criminalized labor, racist and xenophobic discrimination, threats of detention and deportation, and now under Trump, incarceration in concentration camps throughout the country.

Amidst this crisis, we demand that Vermont’s congressional delegation, as well as our local and state-wide elected representatives, advocate that the federal and state government:

  1. Close the concentration camps now, end family separation and the incarceration of children; cease discrimination against queer and trans migrants; free all the detainees; provide funds for their settlement and family reunification; and free Vermont’s own Ismael Mendez-Lopez, Mario Diaz-Aguilar, and Ubertoni Aguilar-Montero and stop their deportation.
  1. End Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, detentions, and deportations and vote to defund ICE, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and the concentration camps.
  1. End collaboration and joint training between the Vermont state and local police with federal deportation officials and agencies, close all loopholes in the Fair and Impartial Policing Policy, and follow the example of Winooski to implement the comprehensive version of this policy throughout the state.
  1. Stop the racial profiling of Black and Brown people and conduct public hearings on the implementation of the Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel.

 

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July 28, 2019
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