ICE protest in Grand Rapids: Activists demand sanctuary city designation

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ICE protest in Grand Rapids: Activists demand sanctuary city designation

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Over 100 people rallied together to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday, June 17, in downtown Grand Rapids.The rally, organized by advocacy organizations Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE, took place in Calder Plaza at the end of a sweltering day.

Local news coverage of last night’s ICE Out of GR rally fails to provide context and misses the mark on what a sanctuary policy would mean for Grand Rapids

Last night Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE hosted a rally at Calder Plaza to denounce the violence that ICE is committing in Grand Rapids, which includes the monitoring, intimidation, arrest and detention of immigrants. All four of the West Michigan TV stations and MLive reported on the rally, in varying degrees of accuracy. The Kalamazoo-based channel 3 did a short story, which spent as much time on President Trump’s Executive o…