{"id":97601,"date":"2026-01-27T01:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97601\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:29:13","slug":"philly-ice-protest-hundreds-march-after-pretti-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97601\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly ICE protest: Hundreds march after Pretti shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s crackdown has featured high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-national-guard-military-cities.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surges of federal agents into Democratic-led cities<\/a> and clashes with protesters in which federal agents have used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2026\/01\/26\/federal-agents-deploy-tear-gas-protest-vandalism-minneapolis-hotel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tear gas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/police-chief-calls-for-calm-after-federal-officers-shot-and-killed-a-man-during-minneapolis-immigration-crackdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flashbang grenades<\/a>. A Department of Homeland Security hiring spree has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2026\/01\/03\/ice-announces-historic-120-manpower-increase-thanks-recruitment-campaign-brought\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than doubled<\/a> the number of ICE agents and officers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has said it is targeting the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/dhs-recaps-worst-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens-ice-took-enforcement-action-during\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens<\/a>.\u201d In the first nine months of Trump\u2019s second term, immigration agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/10\/nx-s1-5637397\/about-a-third-of-people-arrested-by-ice-had-no-criminal-record-new-data-shows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested around 75,000 people without a criminal record<\/a> and held at least 170 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. citizens<\/a> against their will. NPR reporters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/12\/nx-s1-5675315\/minnesota-sues-to-block-trump-immigration-crackdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">witnessed immigration agents questioning people of color<\/a> in Minneapolis about their immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out here today to demand an end to racism, to demand an end of the oppression of our communities,\u201d Talia Giles, a Kensington resident and member of the Party of Socialism and Liberation, said during Monday\u2019s protest. \u201c\u2018Cause let\u2019s be clear, that\u2019s what this is about. They\u2019re detaining citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, including right here in Philly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s crackdown has featured high-profile surges of federal agents into Democratic-led cities and clashes with protesters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5202,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-97601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}