Greater Nashua
More than a thousand residents protest against Merrimack ICE facility
MERRIMACK - Just the mere possibility of a federal immigration detention center drew 1,200 residents to Town Hall insisting that local officials quash the proposal. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would use a former industrial warehouse to hold up to 1,500 detainees. It would be used as a temporary holding facility before detainees are sent to larger detention centers where they would ultimately be deported. Another 15 smaller detention centers are planned elsewhere across the country as part of an effort to revamp the country’s immigration detention system. The protest was held the day after ICE agents killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, in Minneapolis, when she joined an effort to prevent agents from infiltrating a neighborhood. With Town Hall filled to capacity, hundreds of protesters assembled in the ...
