Protest at Tideflats detention center chides Trump immigration order

More than 200 people from Western Washington congregated Sunday afternoon at the Northwest Detention Center on Tacoma’s Tideflats with a message they wanted to convey: “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here.”

The message had to be loud enough that the hundreds of immigrants detained at the federal facility could hear them through the windows and walls.

That chant was the first of many during the two-hour rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, operated by the for-profit GEO Group Inc., protesting the new executive order by President Donald Trump tightening immigration from several Muslim-majority nations.

“There’s nothing that deportation and detention can solve,” said Maru Mora Villalpando, a leader of the Northwest Detention Center Resistance who gave the event’s first speech — in both Spanish and English. The resistance group often protests at the center to raise awareness for the hundreds of undocumented migrants within its walls at any time.

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