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On Saturday, September 6, 2025, about 200 Michiganders gathered outside of the North Lake Correctional Center for a noise demo. Formerly a youth prison, since June 2025, North Lake has become an ICE detention center operated by GEO Group, holding over 600 people captive from various ICE raids across the Midwest.
The demonstration was called by the No Detention Centers in Michigan coalition. First, there were a few speakers. Members of the coalition, a lawyer who represents some prisoners at North Lake, as well as the voices of some of the people trapped inside. Some imprisoned people and their loved ones sent statements or audio recordings to be read or played back at the demo, while one person happened to call during the demo and was able to have their voice amplified and to hear their supporters. While the speakers addressed the crowd, ICE goons drove past the gathering in white pickup trucks, recording the crowd with camcorders and spying on everyone with binoculars (the cowards wouldn’t come out and confront anyone).
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