Valerie Fuldauer, 76, holds a sign with the words “ICE belongs in my drink not in my city.” (María Sofía Rodríguez/WUFT News)
Area residents gathered outside the Gainesville Police Department Thursday to protest a new general order requiring officers to report interactions with individuals they reasonably suspect are unauthorized immigrants.
The Gainesville Immigrant Neighborhood Inclusion Initiative committee called on Gainesville residents to gather at 4 p.m. and demand the cancellation of General Order 82.4. Protestors assembled outside police headquarters holding posters and signs with anti-immigration law messages opposing the new policy…