Dozens of families marched 4 miles from Clark Park to President Barack Obama’s Detroit campaign office Saturday to protest what they call harassment and terror tactics by U.S. immigration officers in Latino-populated parts of southwest Detroit.
Prompted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions last week that included the questioning and detaining of Latino parents before and after dropping children off at local schools like Cesar Chavez Academy, the group called Saturday for Obama to curtail what they described as racial profiling.
“Cesar Chavez is a pillar of the community,” said Joyce Schon, a lawyer who represents BAMN, the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights By Any Means Necessary. “This is just wrong.”
BAMN is calling for weekly marches leading up to the November election.
Way to disregard your own memos, ICE. Way to terrorize our communities, Administration. Way to undermine the idea of...