[3][4] On June 24, 2019, Serena Adlerstein made an informal statement on Facebook about organizing Jews to protest immigrant detention centers in the U.S.[5] Her Facebook network was politically active and soon afterward protests were organized.
[6] In Boston, On July 2, 2019, around 1000 people protested at the Suffolk County House of Corrections after marching from the New England Holocaust Memorial,[7] 18 arrests were made and the state declined to prosecute.
[16][17] On August 14, 2019, several hundred protesters were organized outside of a parking lot by the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when an ICE employee drove his pickup truck into the protesters.
[21][22][23] The incident broke the leg and caused internal bleeding of a 64 year old protester.
[27] The incident prompted an investigation by the Rhode Island Attorney General.