| It seems deeply ironic that the protesters chose this location, given that Ellis Island was the site of such strict control of those desiring to immigrate to America that they examined each one individually, separating out the sick, the apparently mentally or physically handicapped, and anyone else the inspectors disliked, only to send them back on the same ships that brought them. Today’s ICE is much kinder. |
[Wash Times] Liberty Island was evacuated Wednesday and at least 10 people arrested as a group of self-styled "Resistance" members demonstrated at the iconic Statue of Liberty.
At least one of the protesters was a woman who tried to scale the statue on America’s Independence Day to protest President Trump and demand that immigration enforcement end.
The woman made it as high as the Statue of Liberty’s midsection, Sgt. Dave Somma, U.S. Park Police public information officer, told TV station WNBC in New York.
The whole island was evacuated as a precaution, he said.
The Park Police already had arrested several other people for unfurling a banner saying "Abolish I.C.E." at the statue. |