12-06-2025
Detroit anti-ICE protests: Demonstrators take to the streets amid LA protests
The Brief
Anti-ICE protests in LA have spread to Detroit.
The protesting comes as thousands of troops and hundreds of Marines have been deployed to L.A. by the Trump administration.
Activists say immigrants trying to get citizenship are being detained.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - All eyes were on Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests continued into day 6, and now demonstrators in Detroit are lending their voices to the fight.
This as ICE says they are keeping up their targeted immigration enforcement across the region, arresting two dozen undocumented immigrants in a recent span.
Local perspective
They hit the streets multiple times Wednesday with a single clear message, stop the raids.
Demonstrators joined the fight as they protested outside the ICE office in Detroit. The protesting comes as thousands of troops and hundreds of Marines have been deployed to L.A. by the Trump administration.
Attorneys like Julie Hurwitz are monitoring demonstrations taking place on Wednesday to ensure First Amendment rights are not violated.
"I think we can expect to happen in cities all over the country. It's a direct violation of the Constitution," Hurwitz said. "The over-assertion of power by our government is a direct assault on the rule of law, the Constitution, and democracy."
What they're saying
Activists say immigrants trying to get citizenship are being detained.
Meanwhile, ICE says it's carrying out orders designed to keep the streets safe. They say locally they arrested a convicted murderer and convicted arsonist on the same day.
A newly posted video by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showing its Detroit officers and special agents arresting 24 undocumented immigrants in what ICE calls "ongoing targeted immigration enforcement operations," one of many local and national scenes prompting responses like this.
Meanwhile, protesters say due process is not at play during court hearings.
"Today, I know that three of my community members who came in this morning did not come out, and their phones are not responding," said Sarr.
A Detroit City Council member is urging the federal government to provide better pathways to citizenship.
"The federal government needs to have an actual process for people to become citizens," said one protester. "We do not have a process and myself I am an immigrant. I was born in Mexico. And when it was easier, it still took us ten years, and we still paid thousands of dollars to become citizens."
The Source
FOX 2 spoke with protesters and ICE officials for information on this report.
