April 24 (UPI) -- Hundreds of rallies are planned nationwide on Saturday as part of a "Communities Not Cages" action aimed at protesting the number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The protests come amid ICE's plans to construct eight new detection centers and 16 processing centers, adding at least 116,000 beds to the number the agency has available for detaining people who are allegedly in the country illegally, Axios reported.
At the end of March, No Kings held its third protest -- which saw more than 3,000 simultaneous demonstrations across the United States -- since President Donald Trump retook office and engaged in a crackdown on immigration.
Detention Watch Network, the organization behind this Saturday's rallies, called the scouting, purchasing and retrofitting of warehouses to detain between 1,500 and 10,000 people each "particularly horrifying."
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