The ‘NO KINGS’ protest in San Francisco took an urgent turn early Saturday morning, when demonstrators gathered outside 478 Tehama St. after word spread that ICE had summoned immigrant residents to the location under threat of arrest.
More than 200 demonstrators arrived at the site — a private facility contracted by ICE for its Intensive Supervision Appearance Program — at 7 a.m. to show support for their neighbors. By 8:30 a.m., what began as a rapid response had turned into a peaceful protest that prevented ICE from opening the building.
“We’ve seen this around the country that they do these ruses, they call people in and they detain them even without deportation orders,” said Eisa, a representative from the Party of Socialism and Liberation who preferred to go by only their first name. “But we have the presence of people in the streets, and we’ve been successful in making sure [ICE] can’t even open their doors today.”…