Rally fills Kansas Statehouse

Hundreds of protesters filled the Kansas Statehouse on Wednesday, chanting anti-ICE slogans and demanding action on human rights, immigration and social justice issues.

TOPEKA — Hundreds of Kansans chanted “f*** ICE,” carried pointed and sometime profane signs, and sang protest songs Wednesday as they flooded the second floor of the Statehouse to rally for human rights.

Fourteen groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Planned Parenthood Great Plains, El Centro and the Sierra Club, joined forces to promote the rally. The crowd swelled to elbow-room only around the center of the floor, with dozens more demonstrating from the railings above.

Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, which helped organize the rally, told the crowd, “We are living in troubling times.”

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