Author: Megan Zerez and Fernando Figueroa

Both Zerez and Figueroa report from Ithaca, NY.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets of downtown Ithaca Friday afternoon calling for an end to the Trump administration’s mass deployment of federal immigration officials in cities across the U.S. The Ithaca rally was one of many “ICE OUT” demonstrations held across the nation today after federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, Minn. shot and killed U.S. citizen Alex Pretti. The ICU nurse’s death was the latest in a series at the hands of federal immigration agents. Demonstrators in Ithaca braved single digit temperatures and wind chill as they marched down Seneca Street around 4:30 p.m. Friday…

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