Dozens of community advocates gathered at the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall at noon on Thursday to provide a clear and resounding message: They will protect local immigrant families targeted by the Trump administration with threats of detention and deportation.

Organized by the Bay Area nonprofit Bay Resistance, the event was described by a few of the speakers as the real beginning of the Bay Area’s fight against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns.

Francisco Herrera, who leads the immigrant defense committee at Bay Resistance and has also led a San Francisco day labor program, said that instead of saying good afternoon in the midday heat he would say “good morning,” because “it’s the beginning of the rest of our resistance lives.”

Organizers announced a joint stateme

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