Fail: ‘Sick-Of-ICE, Sick-Of-Trump’ in San Antonio Fizzles — Less Than 80 People Attend
A much-touted protest of President Trump’s efforts to conduct mass deportation operations drew less than 75 attendees who gathered in front of the Federal Immigration Court Building on Tuesday. The crowd included members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) who organized the event in Texas’s second-largest city.
Despite having a population of nearly 1.5 million residents to draw from, Tuesday’s “Sick-of-ICE, Sick-of-Trump” protest began and ended in short order with little fanfare. Breitbart Texas observed the downtown San Antonio protest attended by a few people sporting the Palestinian Keffiyeh, several Christian ministers, and a small crowd that listened to speeches critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport illegal aliens.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the protest was one of many planned for Tuesday in major cities across the United States. The events are listed on the well-organized website address SickofICE.org.
Drawing from the biblical story of Jericho, the group of about 70 protesters marched around the U.S. Immigration Court office in downtown San Antonio seven times. The group shouted anti-ICE chants to the beat of a marching drummer. An organizer announced to the crowd that the march was symbolic of the actions that caused the walls of Jericho to fall.
Liliana Padilla, a pastor for the United Methodist church, sang a hymn in Spanish as she stood in front of a memorial to the illegal aliens arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the nearby immigration court. Padilla stood in front of the display at the foot of the PSL tent, draped in the Mexican flag.
