Protesters from across the country invoked the Holocaust while speaking about the detention of immigrants and the conditions they are kept under.
that 36 people had been arrested and estimated that as many as 200 people had participated in the event. The Elizabeth Police Department toldDemonstrators walk toward the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey on June 30 to protest the detention of immigrants.After meeting in Kellogg Park, protesters walked the 1.6 miles to the Elizabeth Detention Center while blowing, holding signs and singing and chanting in Hebrew and English.
Those participating called for"closing the camps" and for the government abolish ICE. As the police determined how to act, the protesters chanted"which side are you on, my people, which side are you on?" The protest underscored the activists' frustration with Democratic lawmakers, who they say have been complicit in the immigration policies of the Trump administration. The demonstrators took aim at figures like House Speaker Nancy, who just this week capitulated on a bill sending $4.6 billion in aid to the southern border."While Republicans are stoking the flames of white nationalism, Democrats are letting them do it," Brandon.
That frustration with legislators was underscored by criticism of the debate among legislators about whether or not the detainment centers holding undocumented immigrants should be described as concentration camps. After Representative Alexandriareferred to the detainment facilities as such earlier this month, Republican legislators fiercely pushed against the classification.
"Elected officials are spending more time arguing over the language used to describe these conditions than addressing the crisis itself," a press release sent before the protest said."They claim to speak for us Jews, but they don't. We refuse to allow politicians to use our trauma as a distraction from the mass atrocities being perpetrated by ICE andNew York City Council member Brad Lander, center, looks on as organizers speak outside the Elizabeth Detention Center.
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