One other anti-ICE protest will happen in downtown San Antonio this Saturday within the wake of the slaying of 37-year-old Minneapolis mom Renee Good by a masked agent.
The demonstration will get underway at 2 p.m. at San Antonio Metropolis Corridor and is predicted to wrap up round 4 p.m, in accordance with a Fb submit for the occasion. The rally and march is happening in coordination with actions throughout the nation.
The protest is organized an array of native progressive teams, together with the anti-Trump 50501 group, the Bexar County Democratic Occasion and the Occasion for Socialism and Liberation. Dozens of individuals have confirmed plans to attend for the reason that occasion was introduced Friday morning.
An identical protest, put collectively Wednesday by the PSL’s San Antonio chapter, drew about 40 individuals, who held indicators, gave speeches and chanted anti-ICE slogans at San Antonio Metropolis Corridor.
San Antonio’s protest this Saturday comes as demonstrations erupt nationwide to voice outrage on the slaying of Good, who was fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathon Ross on Wednesday whereas she was behind the wheel of her car.
On Thursday, the FBI blocked Minnesota state legislation enforcement from investigating the capturing, whereas Vice President JD Vance has declared that Good was at fault, calling on ICE to go “door to door” to conduct immigration enforcement — a suggestion critics have in comparison with Thirties Nazi Germany.
Within the fallout, Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, blasted ICE as a “rogue company,” whereas Democratic State Rep. James Talarico, throughout a New Braunfels city corridor for his U.S. Senate marketing campaign, referred to as for a full investigation into the company’s operations.
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