9 anti-ICE protesters arrested at Sen. Susan Collins' office in Portland, Maine
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Police arrested nine people who were protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Sen. Susan Collins' Portland, Maine office on Tuesday afternoon. In:
Police arrested nine people who were protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Sen. Susan Collins' Portland, Maine office on Tuesday afternoon.
The Portland Police Department said there were about 50 protesters on the eighth floor of One Canal Plaza, a downtown office building.
"The group was repeatedly told if they did not disperse, individuals would be charged with Criminal Trespass," the department said in a statement. "After several warnings, many of the protesters left the building, while nine remained and asked to be arrested."
The ages of the arrested protesters ranged from 31 to 65. They sang "we shall overcome" in the hallway outside the office and called on Collins to use her position as the Senate's top appropriator to end funding for ICE.
One of the protesters was Christine Dyke, lead minister of the Gorham First Parish Congregational Church. She told WGME-TV that ICE should end its latest deportation operation in Maine because it's creating fear in the immigrant community.

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