Post by Logan on May 3, 2017 20:31:53 GMT -6
Austin City Council Member Greg Casar was handcuffed at an immigration protest Monday evening.
Casar was among a group of immigration advocates who spent much of the day orchestrating a sit-in at a state office building in protest of Senate Bill 4, the so-called sanctuary cities bill, which would ban cities from declining to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Protest organizers said just before 6:45 p.m. that 18 sit-in participants had been given trespassing citations and would be released.
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/local-govt--politics/austin-city-council-member-among-those-handcuffed-sit/6s9m7JnVH6umc5LTzpir8L/
Casar was among a group of immigration advocates who spent much of the day orchestrating a sit-in at a state office building in protest of Senate Bill 4, the so-called sanctuary cities bill, which would ban cities from declining to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Protest organizers said just before 6:45 p.m. that 18 sit-in participants had been given trespassing citations and would be released.
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/local-govt--politics/austin-city-council-member-among-those-handcuffed-sit/6s9m7JnVH6umc5LTzpir8L/