Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, has launched another mass raid in a major U.S. city. Yesterday, at around 5 PM, ICE took 31 people who work for a cleaning contractor as janitors in Rhode Island courthouses (catch the irony there). According to the Immigrant Solidarity Network, the contractor has been in a fight with members of Fuerza Laboral for refusing to pay wages. And what a coincidence, the workers are attacked by ICE. From the email:

But fast phone trees brought over 100 people out to support our brothers and sisters held prisoner inside the Providence ICE office - at this hour, people are still outside attempting to block the vans transporting nuestro/as companero/as to detention facilities. We know for sure that at least 3 people were released, and possibly 8 more. Young people from 6 to 16 led the chants and set the tone.

You can see a television news report that covers the fast local response, and reveals the undercounting of those taken in (news reports 24, activists report 31).

A press conference is expected sometime today from ICE in Rhode Island.