More than 15 faith and community leaders joined residents in a peaceful demonstration outside the Goleta Target, demanding the corporation “do better” by publicly supporting and protecting immigrant communities.
The protest comes amid recent ICE raids in Minneapolis, where Target is headquartered, that included the arrest of workers, sparking protests there and in cities across the country.
Reverend Sarah Thomas, associate rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, and the Reverend Tim Black of Saint Michael’s University Church organized the peaceful protest in coordination with other Southern California church leaders who held similar actions in Hollywood and Los Angeles in response to a national call to action…