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Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE's New East San Antonio Detention Center-Before it Opens
On Saturday, dozens of San Antonio residents gathered outside a massive San Antonio warehouse being converted into a detention center that is expected to hold as many as 1,500 people. Banners and posters were held aloft decrying the continued expansion of the federal deportation industrial complex. Though there were a couple small canopies for shade, most stood for hours in full sun as the temperature tipped toward 100 degrees and attendees from various activist organizations traded time on a portable PA system. “We are here today to tell DHS that this concentration camp is not welcome in San Antonio,” said Cooper, an organizer with Comrade Coffee Collective, which describes itself simply as "community members standing with our immigrant neighbors." “DHS has proposed 11 new detention centers around the county. Seven of them have been cancelled, and they have cited public pushback as a factor. With enough pressure, we can get this canceled too.” They educated each other about the rapidly escalating violence of federal immigration agents, the abuse and forced labor detainees suffer, and encouraged one another to deepen their resolve to work to undo the recent grotesque manifestations of what some described as long-standing systems of oppression now animating...