BOISE, ID (CBS2) — BOISE, Idaho — Protesters from Idaho 50501 gathered outside Representative Mike Simpson’s office on Bannock Street on Wednesday to voice their opposition to the recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes cuts to Medicaid and increased funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Demonstrators carried signs resembling gravestones and lay on the sidewalk, drawing chalk outlines around their bodies to mimic a crime scene.
Tina Crawford, a Boise resident and protester, expressed her concerns about ICE’s actions. “What’s going on now with ICE especially is so reminiscent of the 30s in Germany. Masked, unnamed people, stealing and kidnapping people off the street and people dying because of it,” she said. “Severing family ties — the whole thing is reminiscent of that awful era, and we have to do something.”
Another protester, Nancy Parker, also from Boise, criticized the responses she has received from her elected officials. “I get gaslighting letters from my senators, my congress people — saying they go with this America First agenda,” she said. “Which America — America the sick? The dying? The hungry?”…