Over 200 people gathered at downtown Modesto’s Five Points intersection for a “Good Trouble Lives On” protest Thursday evening, in honor of the late congressmember and civil rights’ leader John Lewis on the anniversary of his death.
Tomas Favetto, a 23-year-old Modestan and one of the local organizers, said he and others are frustrated by the way the government and administration are functioning.
“They are violating a lot of the constitutional rights of the American people,” he said, “especially when it comes to deporting immigrants without due process.”
Concerns of increased ICE enforcement were a common theme among the protesters. There were signs that read “No ICE,” “Say no to ICE brutality” and “Melt ICE not ice caps.” Thursday morning, 12 people were detained in Sacramento, an area that up until recently had not seen large-scale enforcement…