El Cajon residents and others from all across San Diego braved afternoon sun and temperatures approaching the 90s Saturday in support of the region’s immigrant community — and to demand that ICE be removed from the city.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in El Cajon to take part in the Marcha Para Immigrantes Communidad Rally on Saturday afternoon.
Organizers, who included groups such as Fuerza Hispana de El Cajon, Latinos En Acción, and Unión del Barrio, coordinated the march in order to protest raids and family separations in the region and across Southern California that have ramped up under the Trump administration, which they say perpetuates a legacy of inhumane laws that criminalize and villainize immigrant communities.
Speakers said that El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells and the El Cajon City Council should resign after passing a controversial immigration enforcement resolution earlier this year declaring El Cajon “not a sanctuary city,” and greenlighting police to work with federal immigration authorities…