Citizens protest I.C.E. in Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Protests have been happening all over the country, and bigger cities seem to be no longer the only communities dealing with ICE operations in their area.

Bowling Green recently had a visit from the agency, resulting in the detention of one recent high school graduate whose legal team argues should have never been removed from his home, adding even more emotion to the protest that happened this evening.

Protesters said various things like “the immigrant community here and we have a large one, knows that they’re welcome here and that we’re going to stand up for them and that this is important to us. We’re family, we’re neighbors”.

One retired teacher who has been a lifelong Republican in her interview commented that “if people read 1984, they’d know what’s happening now is in those pages” while others the immigration situation currently remind them of stories that hail out from Nazi Germany.

Everyone who attended the protest was critical of the state of ICE operations in the country, raising signs that read things like “apply heat, melt I.C.E”, “Stop illegal detention”, and “Detention without due process is kidnapping.”

WNKY News 40 reached out to ICE for comment on this case. We have not received a response.