This story was originally published on LincolnChronicle.org and is used with permission.

A group of pilots stood at the Newport airport Sunday holding signs in the rain and behind them, looming in large bold-face letters were the words “No ICE” painted across a hangar for Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden to see.

Just a day before, Dave Koester, who has a private hangar at the airport, rallied a group of fellow pilots to scrawl the message on the building opposing the possibility of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security creating an immigration detention center at the Coast Guard air base just three hangars away.

“We want to show that this can’t just happen here,” Koestar told the Lincoln Chronicle. “Courageousness is contagious and we want to be visible.”

Koester said the pilots wante

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