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Anti-ICE protest at San Luis Obispo County Jail

December 21, 2025

Photo by Jeff Specht

By KAREN VELIE

A group of approximately 20 protestors gathered outside the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday morning to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions at the jail.

At 10 a.m., protesters gathered off Highway 1 at Kansas Avenue. They held signs seeking the impeachment of President Donal Trump and the abolishment of ICE.

For months. anti-Ice protestors have gathered at the SLO County Jail from about 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. in an attempt to obstruct federal agents from arresting undocumented immigrants during their releases from the jail.

Photo by Jeff Specht

ICE agents monitor jail logs for arrests and releases of undocumented immigrants with a history of deportations. On mornings when an criminal alien is being released, ICE agents wait in the lobby with plans to conduct an arrest.

Inmates with federal warrants, generally for violent crimes, are handed over to ICE agents and not released. However, because of California sanctuary state laws, local law enforcement does not honor ICE detainers.

An immigration detainer is a request from ICE that asks local law enforcement to hold an individual for up to 48 hours beyond their scheduled release from jail to allow ICE to take custody. California law restricts when law enforcement can comply, generally requiring a judicial warrant or a conviction for specific crimes before a hold can be placed.

“We are out her protesting because ICE is kidnapping people out of the SLO County Jail and the SLO Sheriff’s Office is being disingenuous about the extent about their cooperation with ICE,” according to a protestor. “About 60 people this year have been abducted from the jail or the courthouse by ICE.”

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I believe in legal migration and I don’t support border patrol impeding on states rights. True libertarian don’t believe in border patrol. But the real issue (to me at least) – ICE detaining even a single lawful United States citizen or anyone here legally is an absolutely unacceptable and untenable outcome for a free society. ICE going door to door is an issue that should have anyone on the libertarian spectrum up in arms.


But go ahead and tell everyone you voted for this. Aka voted for a baby raper


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Maybe you haven’t heard about a little skirmish called the Civil War, in this war states that believed their laws superseded federal law and they would ignore the federal government, create a new country and keep people in slaved. The result was the federal government prevailed and keeps the power to intact laws pertaining to national issues such as immigration.

As to detaining United States citizens, it happens every day and is dependent on reasonable suspicion and probable cause clearly outlined by law to determine if an arrest is justified.

So if someone has been arrested or is being prosecuted and has been identified by local authorities and federal law enforcement determine they are in this country illegally why shouldn’t they be taken by federal enforcement? Do you want people who came here illegally then committed a crime to stay or fill our jails and prisons?


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Does ICE care about a First Lady who came to this country under false pretenses and whose family chain migrated because of it?

Does ICE care about pedophiles? Is there a number we can call to report them? Asking for the majority of this country.


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No, not the majority.


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My guess is that the majority of people in this country don’t support pedophiles and those who support them. Why would you?


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That’s obviously not what I was saying and you know it.


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The answer to your first question is no.

The answer to your 2nd question is YES if they are here ILLEGALLY. ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


If you know of a pedophile, call your local law enforcement. (Are you really that unaware?) If they are here illegally, hopefully ICE will get involved get them out of this country. Answering for the majority of this country.


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So the First Lady made porn without a visa and was paid for it. Worked for a long time. That’s illegal. No different than any other illegal migrant in this country.

And as for the pedophiles comment… you are truly the clueless one. Let me guess. Fox News is your go to. Right Side broadcasting are your state media of choice?


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Some reading about your pedophile president from your own government.


Imagine what they haven’t released yet


https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Giuffre%20v.%20Maxwell,%20No.%20115-cv-07433%20(S.D.N.Y.%202015)/1332-16.pdf


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Your boy Obama was a deporting machine! Even Biden began to close the border when he was trying to get re-elected. This isn’t a protest against ICE. It’s TDS. You have been brainwashed. You are a stupid tool of the DNC. You have been groomed to pledge allegiance to party regardless of how insane their policy has become. Get help.


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This guy supports a baby raper! What a good person!


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I hate Obama and Biden too bud. I’m just not a beta male who wants to support a baby raper


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Bold alpha who probably supports killing babies and child mutilation. Bravo to you on your high horse. Slaying it.


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It’s not the action that is disagreed on it’s the person in office.

Never heard Obama called a racist or fascist.

It really pisses libtards off that Trump is getting shit done that others waffled on for years or never acted on like moving cannabis from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 3 drug, securing our borders, taking on one way trade deals with other nations, holding Nato members accountable to pay their share, delivering the largest tax cut to lower and middle class Americans, removing criminal illegals and deporting them, stopping the sexual mutilation of children and identify waste and fraud all this and more in the first 200 days.


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Stupid is continuing to fall for “The money will trickle down from the rich if we give them tax breaks” once again. We cut taxes again on the ultra wealthy, they grew $2trillion richer and bankruptcies spiked to the highest level in 15 years. See how that works? The rich don’t get rich because they share.

There was a bipartisan immigration bill that the orange shitler got his lackey Johnson to kill because he needed an issue to run on.

Wake up. You’re in a cult.


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Where were ya’ll when the San Luis coastal school district cut five million under Doc Prater? County supervisor Gibson holding court with his now wife, former mistress, was going to be paid, assistant? SLO superior court cutting their public hours for victims who might need a restraining order?


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“About 60 criminal illegal aliens with current violations of court orders, this year, have been arrested at the jail upon release from local or state arrest, or at the county courthouse after a court appearance for criminal conduct, by ICE.”


Fixed it for you, ignorant protester.


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Abducted????

You people are Idiots.

ICE is doing exactly what the Voters wanted them to do.

Great job LEO!


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I see no problem with people being arrested and taken into custody if they have broken the law.


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Return of the douche brigade.


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“About 60 people this year have been abducted from the jail or the courthouse by ICE.”


“Abducted?” Orwell would be proud of you, anonymous protester.


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