A recent poll from the Economist and YouGov found that the vast majority of people had heard about an ICE agent killing Good, and 50% think it was unjustified, as opposed to 30% who found it justified. The online polling firm Civiqs found that support for abolishing ICE has risen to 43%, the highest it has been since the firm started asking the question in 2019.
Raymond Torres, a 74-year-old Philadelphia resident who was born in Mexico City, came with a sign that said “Voting will melt ICE.”
“If we vote, we can cut the funds to ICE and save our neighbors,” he said.
Torres said he attended his first protest when he heard King speak in Philadelphia in 1967.
Bundled against the cold, protesters march through Center City from the Philadelphia Immigration Court at 9th and Market streets to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices at 8th and Cherry streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Protesters embrace in a show of unity during a protest against ICE raids. The protest took place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day outside the ICE offices at 8th and Cherry streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
