Nearly 1,000 people protested on the sidewalks in Surprise against ICE and its planned facility in the city.
Northwest Valley Indivisible, a grassroots liberal group, already had an anti-ICE protest planned for Jan. 31. The group had been consistently protesting on Saturdays since federal immigration officials killed Minnesota residents Renee Good, a mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, in the past month, according to co-chair Brent Peak.
But in recent days, the upcoming Saturday protest became personal after The Arizona Republic reported that the Department of Homeland Security had acquired a 418,400 square-foot warehouse in Surprise, which ICE later confirmed would be a 1,500-bed processing facility to expand detention space…