Ventura County ICE Protest

Many people don’t like have ICE detention centers in their backyards. Charles Ellis of the Ventura County Star rights about a protest in Camarillo, California:

Leaders of local business and community groups called for immigration reform Wednesday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Camarillo.

Supporters held signs as speakers called for a moratorium on deportations and for respect for immigrants’ rights next to a barbed-wire fence surrounding several white ICE vans near the Camarillo Airport.

“They separate working families, do nothing to protect us from terrorists and undermine the economy,” said Maricela Morales, associate executive director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, a co-sponsor of the protest.

The date was chosen to coincide with the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948.

“It’s hard to believe there is a detention center here in Camarillo,” said Ana Cristina Flores, a Central Coast Alliance supporter from Oxnard. “You see all the fields, and the people working on them are being detained right across the street.” Click here for the rest of the story.

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