Ice protestors meet the city's deadline to leave the camp

Deborah Rose, 33, of West Philadelphia, one of the activists and organizers said in front of the town hall that protesters were meeting the deadline because Mayor Kenney announced Friday that Philadelphia would end a data-sharing agreement with ICE

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Rose would not specify where all the signs, binders, umbrellas and other belongings would be taken." They will likely be used for a variety of things as the campaign "Abolish ICE" continues, "she said.

About 50 people remained at the camp overnight since July 6. In total, about 300 people attended the" Occupy ICE "camp outside of the camp. City Hall, she said.

In addition to asking the city to terminate its data sharing agreement with ICE, the end of the stop in Philadelphia, and the closure Berks County Family Detention Center, which holds parents and children waiting for immigration rulings or asylum hearings.

Kenney said on Friday that he would not renew controversial city contract that allows ICE agents to access the key law enforcement database, known as PARS, and use it this information against undocumented but law-abiding immigrants in Philadelphia. "I can not, in good conscience, let the agreement continue e ", said Mayor Mike Dunn in an email sent Saturday

. PARS is the acronym for a computerized real-time database on arrests, managed by the city and shared by contract with ICE, the federal agency responsible for finding and distributing the information. 39 to expel people in the country without papers. The contract expires on August 31st.

Protesters from "Occupy ICE" were initially given at 2 pm Saturday, the deadline to leave their camp of the town hall was postponed to 15h. The last demonstrator who had camped on the site packed his belongings and pulled them out in a red basket just minutes before 3pm.

Last packaged person, just left #OccupyICEPhl encampment – Julie Shaw (@julieshawphilly) July 28, 2018

Shortly after his departure, the teams of the city began to suck up the remaining dust on the east side of City Hall.

Workers cleaning the city after #OccupyICEPhl Protesters removed all remains of their encampment pic.twitter.com/Rb7D1Hz5NA

– Julie Shaw (@julieshawphilly) ] 28 July 2018

To #OccupyICEPhl activistDeborah Rose says the city gives up to 15:00 to remove the remaining objects, then will feed the washing area pic.twitter.com / FOvJ8hsdnX

– Julie Shaw (@julieshawphilly) July 28, 2018

Dunn says the protesters were asked to decamp due to a planned construction project outside the city. Town hall. "The notice to decamp is due to the construction project, which extends to this area from Monday," he said. "The crews need time over the weekend to prepare this place for the job.The group was aware of this deadline for two weeks.In fact, the deadline was last weekend, and we agreed to extend them and circumvent them. "

He stated that the project was part of the planned reconstruction of City Hall."

The anti-ICE protesters had first set up a camp outside the local CIE office, in Eighth and Cherry streets, July 2, but were expelled from that location on July 5. The protesters then set up the camp in front of the hotel.

On Saturday, protesters complied with the city's deadline to leave.In the morning and early afternoon, about 40 people helped dismantle the makeshift encampment.

Connor Ney, 29, from Wichita, Kan., Ordered food and cleaning products in the improvised kitchen. tarpaulin. He said that he had left Kansas because of the bad economy and arrived in Philadelphia on July 1 in a Greyhound bus. After arriving in the city, he decided to join the protesters, he said.

Anthony Novotny, 58, of Havertown, said he had participated with the protesters during the day "to save our immigrants". the right to be here. That's what the Statue of Liberty represents, "said Novotny, wearing a red T-shirt" Impeach Trump "

25-year-old Atena Jeretic, solemnly watched Saturday as his comrades the last remnants of the camp, on a silver metal truck and private cars parked on the east side of the town hall, police and city workers oversaw the process.

Originally from Paris, she lived in the Philadelphia area for six years, from 2011 to 2017, and attended Haverford College. "Thinking" Homeless ", she said that she had been part of the Occupy ICE camp for the last two weeks after being came to Philadelphia from the Occupy ICE demonstration in New York

She asked him where she would go next I did not know "When the wind takes me", she said

Workers in the city approach working with the city were at City Hall Saturday to see if anyone needed help finding housing

Before 3 pm The Philadelphia Police Inspector, Roland Lee, said he was monitoring the withdrawal camp "for this to be solved peacefully".

Police officers were seen waiting in the vicinity of City Hall and several police vehicles were stationed outside. the municipal services building on the north side of City Hall, the police were not needed Saturday afternoon while the protesters were descending the camp

Jane Slusser, chief of state- Kenney's major, walked in front of the town hall near the 15 o'clock deadline on Saturday. "Everything is fine," she said. "The transition went very well today."

Kenney stated that he was increasingly concerned that ICE was using the database "inappropriately", particularly to conduct surveys of undocumented immigrants who were not allowed to work. had broken any other law. He sowed fear and mistrust towards immigrant communities, he said, which discouraged victims of crime and witnesses from coming forward.

The mayor has spoken openly in favor of immigrants, including filing a federal complaint against the Trump municipality over the right to limit police cooperation with ICE. Last month, a federal judge ruled for Philadelphia, saying the city's position was based on reasonable, rational and equitable policies.