Around 72,000 lawfully present immigrants in the state will be impacted, according to the Food4All Coalition, a statewide advocacy campaign, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
The defining story of this Saturday's mobilisation is not just how many people are protesting, but where they are protesting, said Leah Greenberg, cofounder of the progressive nonprofit Indivisible.
The Department of Justice offered a startling confession to a court on Tuesday, acknowledging that it repeatedly made a 'material mistaken statement of fact' while defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of noncitizens at immigration court.