2 weeks Ago By The Lima News, Ohio
Apr. 19—LIMA — Dozens of protesters angry about deportations, threats to Social Security funding, mass firings of federal workers and other actions taken by President Donald Trump's administration rallied at Faurot Park Saturday morning. The rally is part of the nationwide 5051 movement, a series of anti-Trump protests, which resumed Saturday in cities across the country.
Shannon Peil walked from her home to Faurot Park to protest the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was taken from Maryland to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last month without a court hearing. Garcia remains in El Salvador despite an order from the U.S.
Supreme Court for the Trump administration to facilitate Garcia's return. "Trump says he's looking for 'homegrowns' next," Peil said. "Where does it stop? That's all I ask: Where does it stop, if they can take somebody out of this country?" Rally goers chanted, "We're not scared" while talking about threats to the environment, Social Security and due process, with one speaker proclaiming: "I happen to be a follower of the radical lefist Jesus.
" An estimated 200 protesters from Allen and Hardin County rallied against the Trump administration in Bluffton two weeks ago. "People have come out like I've never seen in my entire life," said Rochelle Twining, chair of the Allen County Democratic Party. "It's truly rewarding, and it gives us hope that we can save our democracy.
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