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 9 people outside Sen. Susan Collins' office Tuesday.
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.”
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.
The Portland City Council’s weekly meeting was temporarily shut down Wednesday night by protesters angry about what they see as councilors’ lack of sufficient pushback against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency,
There are so many more people coming into the movement right now and with that we have to figure out a way to direct that energy into something concrete,” says one organizer in Portland, Oregon.