AUSTIN (KXAN) — A crowd of people gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers.
A flyer posted to Instagram invited people to “say ‘ICE out of our cities! Stop the deportations!'” starting at 7 p.m. The post, from the Austin-area anti-capitalism group Party for Socialism and Liberation, was posted Sunday and called for an “emergency protest.”
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper is on a motorcycle during a protest in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles. (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
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People gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers (KXAN photo)
Since Friday, thousands have taken to the streets in Los Angeles to protest after ICE agents arrested immigrants at a number of places in the city, as well as the deployment of National Guard troops in response to initial protests, according to the Associated Press.
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7:54 p.m.: The march is turning on Trinity Street back toward the Capitol grounds. Texas DPS plans to have the grounds “cleared and closed” at 8 p.m.
7:45 p.m.: “The people, united, will never be defeated,” is the chant now. The group is walking down Congress Avenue.
7:38 p.m.: The crowd is beginning to march and is in the area of 11th and Congress. They are chanting, “We will not put up with ICE. Say it once, say it twice.”
7:25 p.m.: KXAN’s Grace Reader spoke with one of the people at the protest and said she decided to show up because she saw “what was going on in Los Angeles,” and was “very scared and upset about what our President is doing and using his power to turn the military against us.”
“They’re on a hairpin trigger out there, and anything can set it off,” 67-year-old Lynn Tozser said. “I don’t want that to happen.”
7:10 p.m.: A unit of the DPS mounted patrol arrives at the Capitol grounds. Protest leaders said they do intend to march at some point.
7:05 p.m.: Protest leaders went over ground rules for the protest and told the crowd not to engage with “instigators” or law enforcement. It appeared that Texas DPS troopers on bikes led someone who appeared to be counter-protesting away from the crowd. It didn’t appear that DPS arrested the individual, at least from what the KXAN crew could see.
7 p.m.: KXAN has a crew at the Capitol grounds. The protest was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. with “dozens” of people there, but more were rapidly joining the protest. Texas DPS said the Capitol grounds will be “cleared and closed” at 8 p.m.
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