“People are scared. Kids are scared. This is the time to push back hard,” said Milwaukee Common Council President José Pérez at the news conference. “Whether here or somewhere else in the city, my role as council president is to assure that the laws are followed, and those laws are to protect our families, our most vulnerable.”
Milwaukee County Board Supervisor Juan Miguel Martínez announced the formation of a coalition to oppose an ICE facility at this District 9 location.
The coalition is currently solidifying support and mulling its options, said Eddie Cullen, spokesperson for the county board.
“The mayor has not publicly opined about a plan to replace the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility currently located at Broadway and Knapp Street,” said Jeff Fleming, spokesperson for Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson. “The contact the city has had about the proposed northwest side location has come only from private sector building owners.”
Anything connected with ICE or CBP is a facility that’s planned to be used, if they can get away with it, by a modern-day Gestapo to enforce anything Trump wants without question. They already did that a little bit during the last administration, having CBP come in blacked-out uniforms and anonymously snatch people from protests and take them away.
I am thoroughly in favor of them putting up a stink and refusing to let them do any kind of construction for it, anywhere they have the power to stop it.
