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Tensions rise, NC protests grow against ICE activity
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Community organizers plan to hold additional anti-Trump Administration demonstrations across North Carolina, partly in response to immigration raids and .
Several advocacy organizations in Charlotte met Monday in Uptown to rally against ICE raids. Dozens of attendees from the airport workers' union 32BJ SEIU, Housing Justice Coalition CLT, and other groups called for the release of David Huerta from federal detention.
Huerta, a California labor leader, was arrested while protesting outside a business where ICE agents were investigating. He was released from custody on a $50,000 bond and now faces charges of
Rallies are scheduled in Charlotte, Monroe, Concord, Waxhaw and Rock Hill for Saturday, June 14 in connection with the national .
The event was planned in early May, before the activity in Los Angeles, . The organization noted working with a coalition of partners to declare Flag Day a 'Nationwide Day of Defiance.' The date also lines up with the U.S. Army's celebration of its 250th year, and President Donald Trump's 79th birthday.
Organizers in Charlotte said the interest in the event has increased in the past several weeks, prompting them to move the rally to They plan to have a series of speakers and a 1.4-mile march.
Groups in Raleigh intend to gather outside the Capitol building on Tuesday as lawmakers discuss legislation to strengthen enforcement efforts. would compel local law enforcement agents to verify any detainee's immigration status and notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents if the person is not a documented citizen.
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Advocates with the North Carolina Democratic Party told Queen City News' reporting partner in Raleigh that they're calling for an end to ICE raids nationwide.
'It's no longer deportation, right? That is a system,' said Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. 'What we're seeing right now is people being kidnapped, honestly, across the country, people being taken from their homes, their communities, people being racially targeted and profiled across the country right now.'
U.S. Representative Alma Adams (NC-12) expressed similar sentiments in a statement Monday, denouncing the president's decision to deploy National Guardsmen to Los Angeles.
'This decision was fueled by the president's ego, not by what was best for the people of Los Angeles, and we cannot let him continue to weaponize the executive branch against our communities,' Adams said. 'Republicans in Congress should join Democrats in standing up for our citizens and reining in the executive overreach from the White House.'
, along with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, to commemorate the 250th Army anniversary.
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