A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups protested Friday outside of U.S. immigration offices in South San José, demanding an end to what they called a “harsh escalation” of arrests by the Trump administration.

The action came in response to what appeared to be a wave of coordinated arrests in recent weeks carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices, ICE offices and immigration courts in San Francisco, San José and across the nation. .

“These raids are not about justice or security, they are about terrorizing our communities and enforcing an unjust immigration system,” Lyla Salinas, an organizer with the Silicon Valley Immigration Committee, said Friday during the protest outside a USCIS office on Blossom Hill Road.

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