Immigration Activists Target Boughton in City Hall Protest

DANBURY — Local immigration activists targeted Mayor Mark Boughton in a rain-drenched protest outside City Hall on Wednesday, The News Times reported.

Nearly 30 protesters representing Connecticut Students For a Dream and the American Civil Liberties Union were critical of what they term Boughton's "continued complicity with ICE terror." Last month Danbury was the scene for two high-profile arrests made by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement ICE) agents.

The activists called on Boughton, a leading candidate for governor, to order local police officers to stop cooperating with ICE.

On July 6, ICE agents nabbed a man after he was hit by a car on White Street while trying to flee. The ACLU issued a statement at that time accusing the Danbury police of undermining public safety and justice by "by using the Danbury Courthouse as a hunting ground for deportation."

A week later, ICE agents were called in to arrest a man who had been pulled over for speeding once a database check of his license revealed he was wanted for an outstanding deportation order.

Boughton was not in City Hall during the protest.

For more on the story, see The News Times.