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Protestors gather at San Antonio City Hall to protest ICE arrests

Protestors at San Antonio City Hall 6/8/25
Jerry Clayton
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Texas Public Radio

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Well over 200 people crowded the front steps at San Antonio City Hall on Sunday to protest against actions being taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The protest comes in the wake of high-profile ICE arrests of immigrants in San Antonio and across the country.

Just days after ICE arrested migrants during their scheduled court appearance, the community called for the return of the rule of law.

Ruby Jiminez addressed the protestors.

“We are witnessing a campaign of terror against our immigrant communities. Plainclothes ICE agents have been staking out our neighborhoods, ambushing families outside of courthouses and handcuffing our loved ones in broad daylight,” she told the crowd.

Jose Rolando Santiago is immigration attorney

“ Well, it's very wrong. It's a violation of the constitution. I'm from Puerto Rico and I'm an immigration lawyer and I'm here to support my people. The Latin American has a right to live in this country, and there is something wrong in the in the movement of Trump's administration,” he said.

Matthew Stevenson stood among the protestors holding a sign.

“I'm here because I'm outraged at what I saw in LA and Minnesota, and I hope to God it doesn't happen in our beautiful town of San Antonio. We're way too cultured, we're way too diverse to have anything like this happen here,” he told TPR.

The Trump administration deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles this past weekend after protestors there clashed with law enforcement.

Members of the California National Guard arrived in the Los Angeles area Sunday morning, after President Trump activated the troops to curb protests against federal immigration raids that occured in and around the city in recent days.
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Jerry Clayton can be reached at jerry@tpr.org or on Twitter at @jerryclayton.