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Immigrant rights advocates rallied extracurricular San Francisco’s migration tribunal to condemn the Trump administration’s latest deportation tactics
ByJANIE HAR Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- Immigrant rights advocates rallied Wednesday extracurricular San Francisco's migration tribunal to condemn the Trump administration's latest deportation tactics and implore asylum-seekers to support their tribunal dates contempt caller arrests.
Arrests were erstwhile a rarity successful oregon adjacent migration courts, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents past week showed up astatine courthouses crossed the state to apprehension migrants who appeared for regular tribunal proceedings. The determination has rattled migrant communities already feeling unit from the Republican medication to leave.
Eight radical were arrested successful the San Francisco and Contra Costa County courthouses Tuesday, advocates said. At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was arrested past week.
ICE did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Most of the radical successful Concord courthouse are asylum-seekers, said Ali Saidi, manager of Stand Together Contra Costa, an migration hotline and accelerated effect squad successful the region eastbound of San Francisco.
It was unclear who was being targeted and why, but speakers astatine the rally said agents astatine some courts had circumstantial names and were not arresting radical astatine random. They did not person details of the radical who were arrested.
“It seems to beryllium targeted arrests that they could person done astatine different locations," Saidi said, “but chose to bash it astatine the tribunal successful bid to — it appears — marque radical acrophobic to travel to court.”
Speakers implored immigrants to support their tribunal dates, due to the fact that missing a proceeding would marque them taxable to a removal bid and deportation. They said lawyers are available, arsenic are volunteers, to travel them to court.
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