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by Mark Aspillera

Locked in with their arms inside the barrels, young people from different parts of the Bay Area protest against the abuses and raids of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE). The teenagers managed to block the bordering streets to the immigratin building.(photo by Marvin J. Ramirez)

A group of student protesters demonstrated in front of San Francisco’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on the morning and afternoon of Oct. 31, 2008.

The Halloween event was not a youth party, but an organized protest directed against immigration raids conducted by ICE.

The week before the protest, ICE agents conducted 17 raids as part of a three-year investigation in the East Bay and San Francisco. The raids resulted in the indictment of 29 individuals. The 52-count indictment includes charges of murder, trafficking and extortion.

Protesters carried banners and signs with messages such as “Our Immigration is Forced Migration,” ..