LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - More than two dozen people gathered in Leavenworth to protest the opening of a detention facility for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday. CoreCivic has been working for months to try to open the facility in Leavenworth. It was formerly a federal prison, privately run by the company.

Crowds stood outside the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice chanting “say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.” The Friday morning rally organized by Juntos follows a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainments outside courthouses,

In the case of the Ice Out of L.A. Camp, police at the sweep repeatedly claimed that the group was within 500 feet of a daycare clinic located at 255 East Temple Street. The address corresponds to the DTLA Veteran Affairs Clinic across the street from the encampment.

Protesters in Phoenix rebuked President Trump and ICE in the 'Good Trouble Lives On' protest in honor of late Rep. John Lewis.

The federal government released two people remaining in jail Friday afternoon charged with crimes following a mass protest against federal immigration authorities, but the release didn't come without a fight from prosecutors.

Pentagon confirms that 2,000 California National Guard members are being withdrawn from the mission to protect federal buildings and personnel that followed ICE protests.

Hundreds of people chanted and marched in a Camarillo immigration protest that included a tense standoff at a nearby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on July 14.

Protesters in five cities in the US, including Denver, Palo Alto, Seattle, Washington D.C., and New York City, are demanding that Palantir Technologies and its billionaire co-founder Peter Thiel end its role in surveillance and policing,