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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers today tackled and marched off two protesters at around 3:25 p.m. outside San Francisco’s ICE field office at 630 Sansome St., after a nearly daylong standoff.
While around 10 protesters stood outside the ICE field office, two vans left the building at 3:18 p.m., protected by a dozen uniformed ICE officers. In the past, these vans have been used to transport immigrants from the holding center inside 630 Sansome St., to longer-term detention facilities elsewhere in the state or country .
The officers pointed less-lethal pepperball rifles and batons at protesters, and the vans successfully departed