More than 200 billboards against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are visible since Monday in different U.S. cities, including Miami, as part of a campaign that criticizes the high cost of its violent operations for taxpayers.
The ‘ICE costs us’ campaign was promoted by the civil rights association ‘Mijente’ and its posters will be installed in 31 locations, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Antonio, over the next four weeks.
More than 200 billboards installed against ICE
More than 200 billboards against Immigration and Customs Enforcement are visible since Monday in different US cities. The campaign “ICE costs us” was driven by the civil rights association “Mijente” and its billboards were installed in 31 locations pic.twitter.com/oxrkX5rzeV
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“For too long, our government has prioritized installing cages and investing billions in an immigration enforcement apparatus that has left families torn apart and communities terrorized,” Mijente Support Committee co-founder Marisa Franco said in a statement.
The posters show images of ICE agents arresting several people during immigration operations or carrying weapons of war, since according to the organization, spending on military equipment for ICE has increased by 600% recently.
“Your tax dollars are wasted,” reads the majority of billboards, which continue, “ICE’s cruelty costs you $28 billion.” This figure represents ICE’s annual budget.
“Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, but this violent agency continues to operate with a blank check. It is clear that these decisions do not make us safer or have any impact on improving our economic security. Our billboards highlight these decisions and call for a different path,” Franco explained.
Other posters compare spending on war materiel for ICE to the 17 million people who could lose Medicaid health coverage because of President Donald Trump’s administration’s budget cuts.
“They get billions to hit us; we get layoffs and rent increases” or “Funding ICE is a direct path to fascism,” are some of the other messages deployed as part of the campaign.
Filed under: Fences against ICE
With information from EFE
