Activists in Lake Worth Beach have accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of kidnapping community members, with the help of local police, as they took part in a citywide protest.
They gathered at the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center on Thursday morning, picking up 200 prepared posters that read “ICE kidnapped a community member here” and “Florida Highway Patrol kidnapped someone here.”
Organizers spread the black signs out to dozens of public locations across the city —stretching several blocks from near the I-95 highway east to Federal Highway — where community members have witnessed or tracked “the kidnapping and forced disappearance of migrants,” said Mariana Blanco, director of operations at the Center…