CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Immigration advocates are once again meeting outside of the Cedar Rapids Department of Homeland Security and ICE office to support immigrant families.

Today’s demonstration is organized by several groups, including the Iowa City Catholic Worker and Escucha Mi Voz Iowa. They plan to accompany several immigrant families during check-ins with ICE. In some cases, these meetings have ended with immigrants being detained.

There have been several of these demonstrations since ICE began cracking down on undocumented immigrants earlier this year. This comes after a pair of high-profile ICE arrests in Iowa last week.

Video has been circulating of Jorge Gonzalez, a Columbian man living in Iowa City, being wrestled to the ground and detained by officers in plainclothes d

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