Thousands march through Milwaukee to protest Sheriff David Clarke’s crackdown on foreigners and his plans to deputize cops as immigration agents
Milwaukee County Sheriff Clark wants to turn sheriffs into immigration agents
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said it hasn’t sought that authority yet, but has left the door open to doing so
Protesters fear Clarke’s plan will result in mass deportations of immigrants
By JORDAN GASS-POORE
DAILYMAIL.COM
13 February 2017
Thousands marched from Milwaukee’s predominantly Hispanic south side to the downtown courthouse to protest an immigration crackdown by Sheriff David Clarke.
The demonstrators protested against his plans to deputize local law enforcement officers as federal immigration agents.
Busloads of demonstrators from about a dozen communities around Wisconsin arrived to join local protesters in the mile-long Day Without Latinos march.
Clarke posted a response to the event on his Facebook page last week:
‘Please accept my regrets. I will be working with agents from immigration and customs enforcement helping them identify criminal illegal aliens and therefore cannot attend your rally being held for me’.
Parents with children in strollers, young men hoisting Mexican and American flags and older supporters mingled as the crowd, estimated at 10,000 to 20,000 by police, moved through the streets chanting ‘Si, podemos!’ or ‘Yes we can!’
Jose Flores, board president at Voces de le Frontera, one of the groups organizing the march, said he is fearful of the plan by Clarke to enroll his deputies in a federal program that allows them to perform immigration law enforcement functions.
‘Many peoples got to be afraid, you know. Like many families in this county, there’s a lot of hard workers. They are not criminals. We are not criminals’, Flores said.
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