Photos: Here’s the ICE protest that got 31 people arrested outside Miami’s Krome detention center

As Miami-Dade police officers moved to arrest them last Saturday afternoon, protestors from the Sunrise Movement sang a simple song: “I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I will fight for liberation because I know why I was made.”

Blocking the entrance to the Krome detention center on the southeastern edge of the Florida Everglades—which is being used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a processing facility—protesters were brought to their feet and detained by officers.

Tampa photojournalist Dave Decker captured one protester telling cameras they were being “arrested for fighting for immigrants and families that deserve to be safe.”…

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