AUSTIN, Texas — Music from tubas and saxophones echoed outside Austin City Hall on Saturday as immigrant rights advocates rallied to demand an end to Austin Police collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
La Frontera Unida, an immigrant rights community organization, hosted the rally as part of ongoing calls for ICE agents to be pushed out of Austin and for Austin police to stop working with the agency. “We’re having a rally, principally to demand an end to APD collaboration with ICE,” said Jesse Valdelamar of La Frontera Unida. He added, “For one thing, we want ICE out of Austin, we want to stop deportations,” and, “and we’re trying to raise the demand of legalization for all.”
The rally was peaceful, though other protests across the country — including in Austin — have led to arrests…