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"The clanging of pots and pans. The steady thud of beating drums. The honking of passing cars with waving flags sticking out of the window. Bands playing traditional Mexican songs. Speakers shouting into megaphones. Chants coming from dozens of people. All unfolding into the middle of the night outside the Home2 Suites by Hilton in Montebello, California, in late June. The goal of this latest protest? Make as much noise as possible to try and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from sleeping and force them elsewhere.
“They were just making noise, playing music, and some people were dancing,” said Verita Topete, a leader of the immigration committee with Centro CSO, who took part in the protest. “A lot of people were holding signs saying, ‘ICE is not welcome here.’” She said she arrived by 8:30 p.m. on June 20, and before she knew it, a crowd began to show up on the sidewalk outside the hotel. By 10 p.m., dozens more protesters joined the group, and they didn’t disperse until 3 a.m. Topete said that the next day, they returned with enough people to take over the two-lane street to block people from going into the front of the hotel.Topete said the protest is important “to apply pressure and let city and state officials know that we don't agree with this” at a time when “ICE agents are hunting down our working class community members as if they’re criminals, throwing them to the pavement and taking them away from their workplaces.”
Other noise protests include one on June 8, two days after ICE began its raids in Los Angeles. Community members rallied outside the AC Hotel in Pasadena, about 10 miles from Los Angeles, to protest ICE agents’ staying there. Hundreds of people had shown up outside the hotel in the early afternoon after a photo of ICE vehicles parked outside the hotel circulated on local group chats and social media pages. When some of the first protesters arrived, they learned that many of the hotel workers had left in fear. They chanted “Chinga la Migra” and “Fuera ICE,” and by the evening, the agents were kicked out of the hotel. Since then, protesters have continued rallying together outside hotels every night."
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Perfect. Make them suffer, although it can't match the suffering ICE is causing.
This might help explain why Trump occasionally speaks about letting hotel workers alone.
“They were just making noise, playing music, and some people were dancing,” said Verita Topete, a leader of the immigration committee with Centro CSO, who took part in the protest. “A lot of people were holding signs saying, ‘ICE is not welcome here.’” She said she arrived by 8:30 p.m. on June 20, and before she knew it, a crowd began to show up on the sidewalk outside the hotel. By 10 p.m., dozens more protesters joined the group, and they didn’t disperse until 3 a.m. Topete said that the next day, they returned with enough people to take over the two-lane street to block people from going into the front of the hotel.Topete said the protest is important “to apply pressure and let city and state officials know that we don't agree with this” at a time when “ICE agents are hunting down our working class community members as if they’re criminals, throwing them to the pavement and taking them away from their workplaces.”
Other noise protests include one on June 8, two days after ICE began its raids in Los Angeles. Community members rallied outside the AC Hotel in Pasadena, about 10 miles from Los Angeles, to protest ICE agents’ staying there. Hundreds of people had shown up outside the hotel in the early afternoon after a photo of ICE vehicles parked outside the hotel circulated on local group chats and social media pages. When some of the first protesters arrived, they learned that many of the hotel workers had left in fear. They chanted “Chinga la Migra” and “Fuera ICE,” and by the evening, the agents were kicked out of the hotel. Since then, protesters have continued rallying together outside hotels every night."
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Perfect. Make them suffer, although it can't match the suffering ICE is causing.
This might help explain why Trump occasionally speaks about letting hotel workers alone.
