Local leaders join hours-long protest against ICE detention center in Aurora

AURORA | Cars lined the street as music filled the air, and hundreds gathered outside the GEO Group’s privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora.

The Monday event was attended by dozens of community organizations, elected officials, clergy members and musicians, and was a defiant call for justice, unity and the protection of immigrant rights.

“We want to create a space where we can carry it together, where we know we’re not alone because we’re all gonna have to do things we’ve never done before,” Jennifer Piper, an organizer for American Friends Service Committee, said…

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