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   Illegals, Illegals, Illegals!   
      
   Calling on Santa Ana to end its jail contract with Immigration   
   and Customs Enforcement (ICE), trans and queer immigrant   
   activists shut down an intersection in the city yesterday   
   morning. A symbolic cage set up on Civic Center Drive and Boyd   
   Way housed those who staged civil disobedience as part of the   
   action.   
      
   After an hour-and-a-half, SanTAna police gave a dispersal order.   
   The majority of the activists took to the sidewalks of the   
   intersection chanting "Liberation Not Deportation" and other   
   messages of support as police took the five cage activists into   
   custody.   
      
   Organized by FAMILIA: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and   
   DeColores Queer Orange County, the protest comes a few days   
   after Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's apparent 'Come to Jesus'   
   moment on President Barack Obama's deportations. The action took   
   the Deporter-in-Chief to task while also calling attention to   
   the mistreatment of trans and queer people in immigrant   
   detention facilities.   
      
   "Authorities might claim it is safer for our marginalized   
   population to be locked in LGBTQ pods inside detention centers,"   
   said Ronnie Veliz prior to his arrest, "but we know that is not   
   the case."   
      
   According to SanTana police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna,   
   authorities booked Veliz, Ramiro Alexis Gonzalez, Isaias   
   Noycola, Steve Zamarripa and Laura Kanter on suspicion of   
   failure to disperse, unlawful assembly, and impeding the roadway.   
      
   Four of the five were detained as designated by California penal   
   code by their given sex though one identified as a translatina.   
   According to Bertagna, they were kept at a separate "vulnerable   
   housing section" in the jail. All five are now out on bail.   
      
   As reported first by the Weekly, Santa Ana city officials are   
   currently looking to mend, not end, their contract with ICE   
   dating back to 2006. City Manager Dave Cavazos and newly   
   appointed Police Chief Carlos Rojas flew to Washington D.C. to   
   meet with ICE officials and ask that bed space rentals be   
   boosted from $82 to $110 per day.   
      
   Yesterday morning's spirited protest took place outside the   
   police department headquarters and city jail. Rainbow flags with   
   pro-immigrant messages scrawled on them waved defiantly.   
      
   Laura Kanter, a Youth Services Director for The Center OC and   
   Irvine resident, participated in the civil disobedience action,   
   being one of the five hauled away by police.   
      
   "We came together to fight for marriage and now are leaving our   
   immigrant brothers and sisters behind, and by doing so, are   
   contributing to the same systems of power that oppress us all,"   
   she said in a statement. "The progress of the LGBT struggle for   
   equality, including marriage, is meaningless until every person   
   is seen as fully human and treated with dignity and respect."   
      
   After the arrests, activists remaining at the intersection   
   chanted "We'll be back!"   
      
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   Comments:   
      
   gregbpc 9 days ago   
   @meheecan-cris-doner You're the guy in the cage above, right?   
   The guy wearing the baseball sleaves? You haven't been on a   
   Megan's Law website lately..over half of the guys on there are   
   Hispanic, if you want to play that game.   
      
   bdawg011 9 days ago   
   As Mr. Chow would say...So long, gay boys!   
      
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   FuckMexicans 9 days ago   
   Jesus!! The most hated race just keeps justifying why! An easy   
   solution? Just shut the fuck up and go back to mexico and come   
   across legally! Maybe then we might give you a small stage to   
   bitch on deaf ears! Idiots!   
      
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