Protesters converge on Portland ICE facility
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Police arrested nine people who were protesting against ICE at Sen. Susan Collins' Portland, Maine office.
The demonstration came at the end of a week in which federal immigration officials said over 100 people had been detained in Maine.
Portland police arrested four people Saturday during protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the South Waterfront area.
Portland Police monitored a South Portland ICE protest, leading to four arrests without using crowd control munitions.
A group of faith leaders representing nearly 10 denominations demanded that Maine's Republican senator vote against a Homeland Security funding bill and that she call for ICE to end its current enforcement surge here.
Many of the demonstrators began marching down Congress Street around 6 p.m., chanting slogans like, “No justice, no peace, get ICE off our streets.”