Immigrant rights advocates in Grand Rapids are sounding the alarm after reports surfaced that Immigration Customs Enforcement was attempting to detain individuals as they arrived for routine check-ins with immigration officials.
On Wednesday, June 4, dozens of volunteers with the immigrant-rights organizations Movimiento Cosecha GR and Grand Rapids Response to ICE say they witnessed immigration officials attempt to take into custody a group of immigrants at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Grand Rapids.
“We’ve felt that this was an easier way for them to apprehend immigrants because they were concentrating on one spot and then being taken in instead of what we’ve seen [in the past] is that they go look for people at their addresses,” said Gema Lowe, a volunteer with Movimiento Cosecha GR…