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Speakers at Statehouse protest planned ICE detention at Camp Atterbury and urge end to Marion County jail contract
Summary
Activists and community leaders at a rally criticized a reported plan to build an ICE detention facility at Camp Atterbury, recounted past refugee resettlement there, and urged Marion County officials to end a contract that allows ICE to use the county jail.
Speakers at a rally at the Indiana Statehouse raised concerns about a reported plan to house people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Camp Atterbury and urged local officials to end contracts that permit ICE use of local jails.
Carla Lopez Owens, who identified herself as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Marion County and president of the Indiana Latino Democratic Caucus, framed her remarks in personal terms and said she had come to protest what she described as federal immigration policies that separate families. “I am sick and tired of waking up every day and reading about families being ripped apart,” Carla Lopez Owens said.
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