Against detention
Protesters rally outside Yuba County Jail, the last ICE-contracted facility in Northern California
Hundreds of protesters from throughout the region—including many from Chico—descended upon the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on Friday (July 12) to protest the incarceration of people seeking asylum. In the past year, detention centers across the state have ended their contracts with ICE, forcing the federal government to search farther to house immigrants seized at the U.S.-Mexico border. Yuba County is the last one remaining in Northern California, according to the ICE website. As sunset approached, a group from Jewish Voice for Peace compared the treatment of asylum-seekers to the early days of the fascist regime in Germany. And Chicoan Ali Meders-Knight spoke about how Native Americans were treated and the government’s imprisonment of them.
Photo by Charles Finlay
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