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Detroit Jews 
for Justice Led 
#CloseTheCamps 
Rally

On Aug. 13, Detroit Jews for Justice, 
Council on American-Islamic Relations 
(CAIR) Michigan and Bend the Arc: 
Ann Arbor hosted a demonstration at 
the Dearborn Police Department.
Members of all communities, 
including Jews and Muslims, came out 
to support the demand to an end of 
Dearborn Police’
s contract with ICE.
The demonstration drew more than 
200 people and included speakers rang-
ing from rabbis to Muslim community 
leaders and immigrant rights activists. 
Michigan representatives Andy Levin, 
Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell also 
addressed demonstrators.
Detroit Jews for Justice was 
motivated by the national 
#CloseTheCamps movement to put 
an end to immigrant detention at the 
border. 
“The experience of immigra-
tion, of exodus, is a cornerstone of 
what it means to be Jewish,” Rabbi 
Alana Alpert, executive director of 
Detroit Jews for Justice and rabbi 
at Congregation T’
chiyah, said in a 
press release. “We are mandated by 
tradition to pursue justice by loving 
our neighbors publicly and proudly 
— that means seeking liberation for 
the captured and safety for all in our 
midst.”
According to the press release, 
the Dearborn Police detained 1,333 
immigrants in 2018 and is “an active 
player in unjust detentions and 
deportations.”
“We were so moved by the out-
pouring of support from the Jewish 
community. I saw leaders and 
members of Kol Ami, Beth Emet, 
Beth Israel, Birmingham Temple 
and more,” Alpert said. “I’
m hopeful 
about what this could mean for the 
future of Jewish social justice in this 
region.” ■

CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER

More than 200 people came to the protest.

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