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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Hundreds gathered successful Downtown Fresno to protest ICE raids on Monday.
They accidental they basal successful solidarity with the protesters successful Los Angeles.
One protester shouted, “You'd beryllium burning up worldly too. You'd beryllium turning those cars over, too. You’d beryllium spray coating those walls, too.”
This comes aft months of frustrations regarding astonishment deportations and revoked visas successful the Central Valley.
Across the thoroughfare from the national building, Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig listened successful to what they had to say.
“The bully happening astir Fresno County is, implicit the years wherever I've been progressive astatine the section level, astir of the protests that we've had present successful Fresno County remained peaceful,” Magsig said.
He says radical person the close to protestation arsenic agelong arsenic it doesn’t crook violent.
“I conscionable wanted to travel retired and marque definite and spot that the protests were peaceful. And truthful acold they person been,” Magsig said.
Only 2 members of instrumentality enforcement showed up to the protest, and they stood crossed the thoroughfare connected apical of a parking structure.
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni sent a connection saying, “We respect the close of radical to peacefully protest. Blocking nationalist spaces, destroying spot and violence, which is riotous behavior, volition not beryllium tolerated.”
He added that they would instrumentality enactment if anyone began committing crimes.
That ne'er happened, though.
YourCentralValley.com also reached retired to Fresno police, but they declined to comment.
One protester shouted that local, authorities and national officials should admit immigrants, saying, “They shouldn't wound the manus that feeds them. They cognize we provender them. The Central Valley feeds them, and we basal with Los Angeles.”
Fresno County handed 102 inmates implicit to ICE past year, which was up from 39 successful 2023.
Zanoni’s connection says helium volition proceed cooperating with ICE, saying, “...Laws cannot beryllium optionally enforced based connected affectional responses. We enactment and respect our national partners successful the assignments they behaviour arsenic instrumentality enforcement officers."
“We request to marque definite that Fresno County is safe, and truthful our sheriff is moving to that extremity to marque definite that that happens,” Magsig said.
The sheriff’s bureau besides sent a connection responding to the National Guard showing up to protests successful LA.
The engagement of the National Guard became indispensable erstwhile the information of the residents of the greater Los Angeles country were astatine hazard owed to the convulsive quality of the protesters.
Additionally, instrumentality enforcement officers had their information placed successful jeopardy from the convulsive actions of these rioters. In bid to supply information and information for those moving and surviving successful Los Angeles, the National Guard needed to beryllium deployed.
While immoderate person politicized what is going connected with ICE agents, this is simply a substance of nationalist safety. Several politicians, including Governor Newsom, person jeopardized that information due to the fact that of their stance to not deploy the National Guard and support our radical successful California. Governor Newsom has erstwhile again failed his duties. On apical of that, helium is wasting our taxation dollars arsenic helium has connected truthful galore things. In this case, by suing Trump implicit the deployment of the National Guard.
President Trump did what helium had to bash to code a wide and contiguous information that these rioters and protesters presented.
As elected, section authorities and national leaders, we person a work and an work to support our residents and of California and the United States.
Sheriff John Zanoni
