Protesters rally outside Citizens Bank over ties to immigration detention centers
Demonstrators gathered Saturday outside the Citizens Bank branch on Main Street as part of the “De-ICE Citizens Bank” campaign, which calls on the bank to end its financial relationships with private prison companies involved in immigration detention.
Participants held signs and banners expressing concern over the bank’s reported ties to companies operating detention facilities. The demonstration remained peaceful.
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The rally was one of more than 135 coordinated “De-ICE Citizens Bank” events held last weekend across New England and beyond, urging the bank’s corporate parent, Citizens Financial Group, headquartered in Providence, to stop financing the private for-profit prison companies building and operating ICE detention facilities nationwide.
Thank you to all those who joined in the peaceful gathering to inform people about the inhuman treatment of the people being held at the ICE detention center in Burlington, MA. We must not remain silent regarding the abuse of Civil Rights in America.