Please stop distorting the truth and in some cases spreading outright lies.

Someone from CAAELI was in communication with the suburbanites who were organizing for this thing and it was communicated that immigrants and their families, which also included undocumented persons, would be arriving at 11am. I personally telephoned one of the main suburban organizers in the days preceeding the protest to explain the very same thing and was assured that they were planning a completely green (ie. unarrestable) action and that it would be a safe space for these at-risk communities. The blockade was a spontaneous (ie. unplanned) action by the way and while I blame the cops for the arrests those who participated in and/or witnessed the blockade should try to understand the situation that the vast majority of protesters were in rather than spout off reactionary nonesense like the person that I'm replying to.

It doesn't matter who was organizing for this thing first. No one can claim ownership of these actions regardless of how much or how long they organized for it. No one from CAAELI, which brought out 2/3 of the people there, tried to control anything other than their own pre-planned rally and that was within their right to do so. Truth is that there was a lot of confusion as to what was happening and what had gone down earlier in the day and this resulted in some tensions to be sure but the kind of attitudes and lies coming from people like the idiot above made things worse on the day of the protest and now only serve to exacerbate further those tensions and distort the truth of what actually happened.