{"id":96361,"date":"2025-12-26T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:03:08","slug":"group-demonstrates-outside-broward-ice-facility-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96361\/","title":{"rendered":"Group demonstrates outside Broward ICE facility on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM<\/p>\n<p>ICE protest held on Christmas <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Outside the walls of the Broward Transitional Facility, nearly two dozen people gathered on Christmas Day with one clear mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/25\/la-injusticia-no-descansa-grupo-se-manifiesta-frente-a-centro-de-ice-en-broward-durante-navidad\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/25\/la-injusticia-no-descansa-grupo-se-manifiesta-frente-a-centro-de-ice-en-broward-durante-navidad\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTo shed light on the fact that so many detainees inside are celebrating Christmas without their families,\u201d Christine Calareso Bleecker of Joyful Resistance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">People drive by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Pompano Beach every day and \u201cthey have no idea that behind these beautiful pink walls is an ICE detention facility,\u201d Calareso Bleecker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The demonstration comes as the federal government continues a nationwide immigration crackdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced that federal agents detained hundreds of undocumented people with criminal records across South Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demonstrators say detainees are enduring inhumane and cruel conditions and are not receiving proper legal assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPeople (who) have student visas, people (who) have working visas are currently being swept off the streets,\u201d John McNeice, with the group Resist Wilton Manors, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Calareso Bleecker said, \u201cFor so many, they have actually no idea where they are because the system has been designed to literally disappear people off the streets and then disappear them in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The demonstration lasted an hour. Organizers hope it helps create a lasting impact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re here in solidarity with them,\u201d Calareso Bleecker said. \u201cInjustice doesn\u2019t take a day off and so neither can resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM Updated:\u00a0December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM ICE protest held on Christmas POMPANO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-96361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96361","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=96361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}