ICE has been stepping up its arrests of people at a San Francisco Immigration Court building and recently that has led to confrontations with a small group of masked Antifa activists. Tuesday, ICE agents arrested one man and then had to scuffle with protesters as they attempted to remove him from the building.
The clash started at 11:18 a.m. on Tuesday when around 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, almost all with faces covered, tried to enter the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St. They were there to escort other agents already inside, who had a young immigrant man in custody.
ICE has been routinely arresting asylum-seekers following their immigration hearings, and anti-ICE protesters had gathered at the courthouse that morning, as they said they’ve been doing every Tuesday.
The agents struggled for over a minute to open the building’s front door when protesters formed a chain across its entrance.
Here's what that looked like.
WATCH as San Francisco far-left mob attacks ICE agents right in front of immigration court.
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As you can see, they did get one man into the back of a mini-van but the activists then jumped in front of the van to prevent it from leaving. This was captured from two different angles. Here's the view from several stories above.
A video captured outside a San Francisco courthouse Tuesday morning shows protesters seemingly trying to block a deportation by clinging to an ICE van as it drives through the crowd. One is seen to fall from the vehicle while another holds on as it swerves.
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I see about 8-10 activists on the van. ICE agents are shoving some of them away but two people are still on the hood as it speeds off. One person falls off and nearly goes under the rear wheel. The other person is hanging on the hood until the van stops at a light. And here's the same thing seen from the ground level.
Feds Assaulted!
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Watch as anti-ICE rioters in San Francisco ATTACK agents and attempt to stop an ICE vehicle until they finally say ENOUGH!
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If you want to see everything in context there's a 14 minute version of this video. After the van drove off, the activists followed the ICE agents for several blocks, berating them. One guy with a bike started shoving and got a face full of pepper spray. The others kept following attacking one Asian agent in particular.
ICE Agents are almost overtaken by out of control protesters in San Francisco.
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This is so hard to watch. pic.twitter.com/IubbSroFKb
The reason ICE is being more aggressive here, which isn't really explained in most of the stories about this, is that it's routine for migrants to lose their requests for asylum in the US (because they're not really asylum seekers but economic migrants in most cases) and then just stay in the country anyway. ICE is now picking up some of those people at the immigration court and sending them on their way instead of leaving it to them to leave if they feel like it.
In an email, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security defended the arrests. Immigrants who have a valid claim for asylum can continue with their proceedings, but those who don’t “will be subject to a swift deportation,” the spokesperson said. The department said that most immigrants who entered the United States within the past two years are subject to “expedited removal” if they could not show that they have a valid claim for credible fear of returning to their home countries...
The courthouse arrests in San Francisco appear to be part of a new Trump administration effort to detain migrants at immigration courts immediately after hearings if they have been ordered to be deported or if their cases have been dismissed.
The new approach is an attempt to make sure people obey the courts and the law. The activists clearly don't care about any of that. This isn't the first such confrontation at this SF immigration court. Two weeks ago a similar masked group managed to get the courthouse shut down for 2 days.
The San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters shut down on Tuesday afternoon after about 30 protesters attempted to block the transfer of at least two immigrants who had been arrested in Concord that morning.
Just before 3 p.m., ICE agents and federal police stood inside the building’s doors, putting up “Closed” signs. Protesters had amassed around the northern gate of the headquarters at 630 Sansome St. at 1:58 p.m. as an escorted, unmarked white van with tinted windows reversed through the building’s rising garage door.
Advocates said the van was loading immigrants arrested in Concord into holding cells inside.
Here's a video from the earlier protest.
I guess we can be grateful that none of the Antifa people were shooting at anyone this time, but it does seem like there has been a general uptick in militant anti-ICE activity.
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