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With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.
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More than 100 community members gathered outside the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office on Second Street and nearby Heritage Plaza with signs and banners displaying messages such as “ICE Out” and “Abolish ICE” before marching to the office of U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson.
The march came one week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer appeared to use his vehicle to strike a man observing ICE operations in a Woodland neighborhood.
Antonio Moreida, the community activist who was struck last week while filming ICE operations in Woodland, attended the protest on Tuesday. According to Indivisible Yolo and Yolo Democratic Socialists of America, the goal of the protest was to demand county prosecutors file hit-and-run and assault charges against the ICE agent accused of striking Moreida.
Morieda spoke out at a city council meeting last week, criticizing Woodland police response to the incident. The police department has since launched an investigation into the incident and on Oct. 20 Moreida stood alongside Rep. Mike Thompson as Thompson called for ICE to cooperate with the law enforcement investigation.
Federal immigration officials last week denied that the vehicle driven by the ICE agent struck Moreida, calling him an “agitator” who jumped onto the hood of the agent’s vehicle in a statement.
One woman who attended the protest said she was nearby when Moreida was struck. Wendy Walker Davis, who said she has lived in Yolo County for 50 years, said she was just around the corner observing when Morieda was struck and heard it happen.
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“I was horrified to have that happen in our county,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Another protester, Woodland resident Adelita Serena, said that community members are fed up with ICE’s presence and recent local raids.
“That’s why we’re here — we’ve had enough,” Serena said. “We hope that the police protect our community and stand up for our rights that we have as citizens, as community members. We want to be protected too. We feel threatened to speak out. We feel that we are putting a target on our back just to protect our neighbors.”
Walker Davis echoed Serena’s sentiments, stressing the importance of the immigrant community to Yolo County.
“Our immigrant community have helped take care of our community,” she said. “They’re caregivers. They are people that work side by side with us and have built businesses and a life here, and only wanted the same American dream as my family did.”
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