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Philadelphia: 5 Arrested Blocking Highway Demanding End to Deportation

HeadlineJun 30, 2016

And protests continue in the wake of the divided Supreme Court ruling that blocked the Obama administration’s DAPA program, which would have shielded up to 5 million people from deportation. In Philadelphia, five people were arrested Tuesday for blocking the off-ramp to Interstate 676 by locking themselves together using PVC pipes. Among those arrested was 13-year-old Erick Perez-Hernandez, a U.S. citizen whose parents would have been eligible for DAPA. Ahead of the action, he said of the ruling, “It is unfair, wrong, and now I have to wonder if my sister and I have to worry about being ripped away from our parents.”

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