NeverAgainIsNow: 36 Arrested As Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Block Road to Migrant Detention Center

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#NeverAgainIsNow: 36 Arrested As Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Block Road to Migrant Detention Center

Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/01/neveragainisnow-36-arrested-hundreds-jewish-protesters-block-road-migrant-detention

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Rejecting the notion that denouncing the Trump administration's immigrant detention centers as "concentration camps" does harm to the memory of the Holocaust, 200 Jewish people demonstrated at a facility in New Jersey Sunday evening and demanded the release of the thousands of immigrants in U.S. custody.

Grassroots group Never Again Action called for all detention centers to be closed and for the U.S. government to protect asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants—instead of sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into communities where the agency has arrested hundreds so far this year in raids.

The group reported that 36 participants were arrested for blocking the road to the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

"I have to do whatever is in my power to disrupt ICE, to close these camps, to provide permanent protection, and to ensure that 'never again' means never again," saidRebecca Oliver, a demonstrator who was arrested.


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[uponit7771]

1. AMEN!! To hell with a concentration camps and those who support them and run them. "I was following

... orders" didn't work then and it shouldn't work now.

[alittlelark]

2. OmG - If any protest group can make a difference it is theirs.

The power in their protest is deep and palpable.

[cwydro]

3. But, I heard it right here on DU that these camps are not concentration camps.

Apparently, these folks disagree.

I really can’t believe this is happening here.

[Takket]

5. Please report any such post for "right wing talking points"

These ARE concentration camps. Period.

[orangecrush]

4. KICK