People in Albuquerque are protesting Trump's deployment of federal agents to the city as local leaders condemn the show of force
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Hundreds of people took to the streets chanting "feds go home," braving a downpour in downtown Albuquerque to protest the Trump administration's decision to send federal agents to New Mexico's largest city.
Unlike scenes in other cities, there were no clashes with police, who shut down streets — without leaving their vehicles — for marchers who chanted the names of people killed by law enforcement. There were also no right-wing counter-protesters, the local militia movement shying away from
The president's reelection campaign has also been flooding New Mexico's airwaves with an ad seeking to tie Democratic rival Joe Biden to that activist demand.
The Red Nation, an indigenous-led socialist group, helped organize Friday's protest outside the US federal courthouse in downtown Albuquerque."What we are seeing today is fascism in its most blatant and simple form," the group said in a statement.
Marg Elliston, chair of the state's Democratic Party, and Flora Lucero, chair of the Bernalillo County chapter, issued a joint statement criticizing the deployment as "out of line with the needs and interests of our communities."
"Recently, we've seen how the Trump administration is willing to use federal officers to brutalize and intimidate peaceful protesters," they said. "This kind of violence and suppression has no place in our nation."
In a July 28 letter to Albuquerque Mayor
But Keller remains skeptical. He joined mayors from Seattle, Philadelphia, and Oakland on a July 29 phone call expressing opposition to the Trump administration's use of force, saying federal agents have engaged in "totally inappropriate and often illegal behavior that is designed to incite violence and divide us."
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