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Local residents and Democratic lawmakers had pushed hard, saying a company like that shouldn't be allowed to do business at our airport.
Now, amid that pressure, that aviation company is pulling out.
This comes after Delaware activists also played a key role in pressuring Avello Airlines to stop its deportation flights for ICE or be kicked out of the Wilmington airport if they wouldn't.
After that pressure in Delaware and around the country, that company, Avello, has since stopped flying deportation flights for ICE.
This was today in New Jersey, in Roxbury, New Jersey, hundreds and hundreds of people standing outside in the cold along Route 10.
According to local press, people lined both sides of the road for about half a mile, literally hundreds of people there today, all protesting against a planned Trump prison camp in their town of Roxbury.
One local councilman from a nearby town who was among the protesters today in Roxbury, a New Jersey insider, reported that he told the crowd at this protest that someday he expects his grandchildren will ask him what he did in this era to try to stop ICE from terrorizing immigrants.
He told the crowd he wants to at least be able to tell his grandkids that he spoke out.
This was El Paso, Texas, this weekend.
People protesting, calling for all of the ICE prisons to be shut down, including especially the ones in Texas.
They're also specifically calling for no new ones to be built.
El Paso is another place in Texas where Trump is trying to build yet another of his big black site prison camps.
There's a local company, or not, excuse me, a local company, but a real estate company called Flint Development.
that Oklahoma City actually talked out of doing a deal with ICE in Oklahoma City to put a prison camp in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City county and city government got involved to talk Flint Development out of it in Oklahoma.
But that same company, Flint Development, owns another property in El Paso.
So now it is El Paso that is trying to stop Flint Development from selling their El Paso facility to ICE.
That fight is ongoing, and people were out in numbers, in great numbers in El Paso this weekend protesting against it and saying there should be no new Trump prison camp in their town.
The news outlet The Lever notes that Flint Development has, quote, "...recently stripped information about its executive team from its website amid this fight."
It's a real sure sign that you're doing work you're proud of, right?