Several small businesses in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley closed Friday as part of a nationwide protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics.
Protesters across the U.S. participated in what was called a “National Shutdown,” with organizers pushing for “no work, no school, no shopping” on Friday in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The nationwide strike followed fatal shootings by immigration officers in recent weeks in Minnesota, including the killings of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti and poet Renée Nicole Good. Organizers of the shutdown, on its website, also decried the fatal shootings by ICE agents of Silverio Villegas González in the Chicago area last fall and Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve…