{"id":336088,"date":"2026-07-10T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336088\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:35:25","slug":"protest-at-department-of-homeland-security-site-in-fort-myers-starts-after-local-man-taken-into-custody-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336088\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest at Department of Homeland Security site in Fort Myers starts after local man taken into custody | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of people protested outside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office in Fort Myers Friday after reports that a man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was related to a legal observer of ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Unidos Immokalee, a community group advocating for immigrants and farmworkers, posted information on social media early Friday about the man being taken by ICE agents and urged people to join the protest.<\/p>\n<p>Unidos Immokalee said that the man was taken outside his home Friday morning and that he was the husband of a local legal observer of ICE activities.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1100\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783712125_866_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protesters at the DHS\/ICE site used  a megaphone to shout at the offices: \u201cWe&#8217;re just supporting that family and letting them know that what they just did was illegal. It&#8217;s heartbreaking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There was no response to a request to a DHS spokesman for information.<\/p>\n<p>WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgcu.secureallegiance.com\/wgcu\/WebModule\/Donate.aspx?P=JOURNALISM&amp;PAGETYPE=PLG&amp;CHECK=Fh6V9MuzTVcdN7RxIr2SYb1YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of people protested outside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office in Fort Myers Friday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-336088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}