SAN JOSE – Around 50 people gathered Friday afternoon to protest an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Jose, blasting the agency for making arrests outside courtrooms and in plainclothes and calling on public officials to take action.

“Shut down ICE! Shut down ICE!” the protesters chanted as they walked from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Application Support Center to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in South San Jose. A man wearing butterfly wings skipped alongside a crowd holding signs that read “no deportations! no border militarization!” and “cruelty is not civilized.”

The protest followed an uptick in ICE activity in San Jose over the past week. ICE agents arrested four people Tuesday in a raid in South San Jose as they arr

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