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More than 200 people marched in Brooklyn Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the latest in an orchestrated, often violent displays taking place nationwide.
The protestors, led by lefty elected officials and paid activists — marched along Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, chanting in English and Spanish, “Say it loud. Say it clear. Immigrants are welcome here.”
Some carried signs with such slogans as “Families belong together and” “Protect immigrants.”
“We say ‘no’ to Trump’s disgusting deportation agenda,” said Councilwoman Alexa Aviles (D-Brooklyn) “We know what he is doing with ICE. It’s terrible, and it is violent. It is unlawful, and it is not what our country stands for. So we are here to say ‘no to ICE.”
Similar rallies took place Saturday in Manhattan and Queens. There were no arrests, the NYPD said.
The left’s heighted rhetoric has had deadly consequences, critics said. An anti-ICE gunman killed one migrant and wounded two others at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday. Joshua Jahn, 29, fired from a rooftop at a busload of migrants before turning the gun on himself.
“The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with “ANTI-ICE” ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays bare the deadly consequences of Democrats’ unhinged crusade against our border enforcement,” said the White House in a statement Friday.
Trump on Saturday ordered the Department of War to dispatch “all necessary” troops to Portland, Oregon, to secure the city and safeguard Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel amid a surge of anti-ICE protests there.
