""We have all seen the power of parents connecting together to care for everyone's children and to keep each other safe," the group says in a statement on Instagram. "We know that community is the key to holding our government agencies accountable for their actions. We cannot continue to let our government traumatize children, neighbors, teachers, laborers, and anyone else in our community who is now on constant high alert.""
""It is worse than you can imagine out on the streets right now, and it is because of the federal immigration enforcement we're seeing every day. Our communities are living in abject fear, and it's time for people that look like us to take a stand and put our own physical bodies in front of those bodies, because it is unacceptable,""
Over a dozen mothers from Chicago suburbs staged a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE detention center and were arrested Friday morning. The protesters sat in a large circle holding hands, chanted "This is what democracy looks like," and were zip-tied and taken away one by one. The group, calling itself Resist and Repeat, said parents connecting can protect children and hold government agencies accountable, and warned that federal immigration enforcement has left communities living in fear. The action followed the forcible removal of preschool teacher Diana Galeano from a Chicago daycare; Galeano is now held at Broadview despite a work permit tied to a pending asylum application.
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