Several hundred immigrants and their supporters on Sunday denounced a recent wave of arrests and deportations of immigrants in the East Bay as a violation of basic human rights - California

“”I do not want our … residents to live under terror,” said Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. That is how “hundreds of thousands of families” have lived, she said, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement began a nationwide push in immigrant communities, including Richmond, San Pablo and Concord.

The National Fugitive Operations Program targets immigrants with deportation orders, especially those who have committed crimes, ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley has said”

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