The messages were as loud as they were urgent.

“Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here,” the crowd of about 100 people chanted in front of the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse in downtown San Diego on Thursday.

Members of several unions, along with elected leaders, sounded an alarm over the of National Guard troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into communities.

They also voiced concern that the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, like freedom of speech, are under serious threat.

/ KPBS

“And at the moment that the executive branch begins attacking people for what they said at a or an and are sent to prison or a detention center because of that, that means we're on a slippery slope to losing the fundamental principles of what a democr

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