Metro Phoenix residents were on high alert on Tuesday following unconfirmed reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity across the Valley, with dozens of community members showing up to protest the agency’s actions.
By 9 a.m., several ICE sightings had been shared by the immigrant rights advocates of Puente Human Rights Movement, a Phoenix-based organization that has operated the Migra Watch hotline since Donald Trump retook control of the White House.
Dozens of protesters, affiliated with organizations such as Puente and the Phoenix branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), were present near a Walmart at 67th and Peoria avenues. Agents traveling in unmarked pickup trucks wearing black vests with the words “POLICE” printed on them, along with officers from the Peoria Police Department cordoned off a residential area, blocking protesters and members of the press from entering the vicinity…