Overview
- FIEL organized the Friday evening protest outside the CoreCivic Houston Processing Center that drew about 150 participants chanting for migrant rights.
- Plainclothes ICE agents wore masks and failed to identify themselves when apprehending migrants at Houston immigration court over multiple days.
- Protesters distributed flyers calling for the release of Margarita Avila, a Spring grandmother detained after a disputed arrest.
- Executive director Cesar Espinosa criticized Mayor Whitmire for Houston Police cooperation with ICE and urged liberation instead of deportation.
- The Houston rally was part of nationwide No Kings demonstrations against authoritarianism and aligned with activists’ opposition to President Trump’s planned military parade.