Milwaukee – Thousands marched in the annual May Day celebration this week.
Many organizations came together to challenge Sheriff David Clarke. Clarke has had multiple deaths in Milwaukee County jail and House if Correction. On April 14, 2016, Terrill Thomas died in jail of dehydration after being kept in solitary confinement for seven days without water.
Sheriff Clarke, who is rumored to be a potential Trump pick for a position inside the Department of Homeland Security, is also pushing to partner locally with ICE under policy 287(g), which would allow local law enforcement to act as immigration agents, tearing families apart in the process.
Clarke has been called out for his aggressive push to partner with the Department of Homeland Security under the agency’s 287(g) policy.
The policy would turn his local officers into immigration agents to help in the government’s aggressive effort to crack down and round up undocumented immigrants.
The ACLU deemed 287(g) a “civil rights abuse” that has “led to illegal racial profiling,” said Chris Rickerd, policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Political Advocacy Department.
Area high schools, including South Division in Milwaukee, staged mass walkouts to join International Workers Day, as well as community organizations and labor unions.
