Every evening and morning throughout central Arkansas, ICE agents are kidnapping immigrant community members, and bringing them to a detention building at 4501 Roosevelt, across from the airport. Sometime between 1pm and 3pm, every weekday afternoon, an unmarked white bus arrives at the building. ICE agents take chains off the bus, and take them inside to chain the community members by their wrists and ankles. They are then moved onto the bus, typically 6 to 20 men, and occasionally a woman or two. The immigrant community members are then driven to ICE prison camps in Louisiana, where we have heard they receive inadequate food and the drinking water is brown, and many get sick.
Two Arkansas groups, Peoples Protest AR and La Voz Del Pueblo, have been working to maintain a DAILY presence to bear witness to these disappearances for over 7 months now.
Indivisible LRCA is helping by coordinating volunteers to help cover Wednesday from 1ish, until the bus departs with our kidnapped community members. Our goals are to:
- Show visible and loud support to the community members being disappeared
- Send a message to the law-breaking ICE agents that they will be held accountable
- Raise community awareness of what is happening our own central Arkansas backyard
Please sign up to join shifts when you can!
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