Amid freezing temperatures and snow flurries, protesters gathered on Pitt’s campus oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Pittsburgh and across the U.S. on Thursday evening.
Over 100 students and community members joined together on the corner of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard for the “ICE Out of Pittsburgh” protest. Multiple Pittsburgh organizations, including Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh and Casa San Jose, organized the protest.
Since Trump retook office last year, ICE has expanded both in budget and deployment, intending to detain and arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally. Protests against ICE erupted across the nation after U.S. citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent…