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So how big are these protests? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by Andrzej3K@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I was just reading the Guardian reporting on the ongoing anti-ICE protests across the US, and the word 'hundreds' kept coming up. Isn't that very very few people? In Spain you get a few hundred people protesting over niche local issues and it doesn't make the news.

What's it looking like where people are?

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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to be 'Spain better' — just trying to get a handle on what's actually going on

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not there either so anyone present can give a better take. I'm parsing from outside as well and understand where you're coming from.

Trump talking about the lady shouting "SHAME" and "the noise" she was making and calling her a "professional agitator" seems to be a badly worded and unhinged way to describe the basic premise of following ICE around and beeping horns/making noise that is pulling people outside to counter them.

These things are mostly happening in suburbs from what I can tell, wherever ICE is trying to raid housing or workplaces that might have migrants.