Protesters to rally outside Bronx Target over alleged cooperation with ICE

A protest is planned for Tuesday morning outside of a Target location in the Bronx over the store’s alleged cooperation with ICE.

Community leaders and elected officials are expected to lead a morning rally in protest of claims that the Marble Hill store allows the federal agency to use its parking lot as a staging area. A Target spokesperson told The New York Times the company had no “cooperative agreements” with ICE.

The protest action comes in response to last Thursday’s shooting of Oscar Belgal, a 25-year-old man wounded by ICE agents mere blocks from the Target located on West 225th Street…

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