Protesters gathered in downtown Gainesville to rally against that proposed Oakwood ICE detention/processing center.
Sponsored by the Gainesville’s Rainbow Collective, the crowd gathered for about three hours at Poultry Park.
Many carried signs telling ICE to stay out of Hall County and criticizing President Trump’s tough immigration policies. A sampling:
“Prisons without due process are concentration camps.”
“If you are not angry, you are not paying attention.”
“We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are human beings.”
And here, from SRN NEWS/AP is an in-depth story on the federal government’s approach to planning for more than 20 new detention facilities nationwide like those in Oakwood and Social Circle:
ICE’s purchases for big detention centers are marked by secrecy, frustrating towns – SRN News