ATLANTA — Community organizers shifted their focus to education Sunday after massive pro-immigration protests across Metro Atlanta Saturday.
Atlanta’s chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, or PSL, held an organizing meeting at the Little Five Points Community Center Sunday afternoon.
Their goal is to mobilize and arm people with information if they or anyone they know may be at risk of deportation.
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“We have to see this movement continue,” said Estevan Hernandez, who is an organizer with PSL. “It has to get stronger.”
Lawyers told people they have a right to remain silent, a right to an attorney, and a right to have an interpreter provided.
The meeting Sunday comes one day after PSL said 4000 people rallied down Buford Highway in Brookhaven and Chamblee, protesting immigration rights.
“As a veteran, I fought for this country, I stood for this country, and the beliefs of this country, and this isn’t it,” said Marcone Cangussu, who attended the meeting. “This country is built on the backs of migrants who came here voluntarily or in chains.”
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Since ICE started their “targeted arrests” operation last Sunday, they said they have arrested nearly 7,000 immigrants across the country. According to a Quinnipiac Poll from Wednesday, around 44 percent of Americans support these deportations, and that includes the Chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, Josh McKoon.
“What we’re not going to put up with is for people to violate our laws, come to our country illegally,” McKoon said.
The group says one of the ways they are organizing is looking at creating a system among neighbors to track ICE sightings.
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