Activists in Lake Worth Beach have accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of kidnapping community members, with the help of local police, as they took part in a citywide protest.

They gathered at the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center on Thursday morning, picking up 200 prepared posters that read “ICE kidnapped a community member here” and “Florida Highway Patrol kidnapped someone here."

Organizers spread the black signs out to dozens of public locations across the city —stretching several blocks from near the I-95 highway east to Federal Highway — where community members have witnessed or tracked "the kidnapping and forced disappearance of migrants,” said Mariana Blanco, director of operations at the Center.

The demonstration in Lake Worth Beach, which included s

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