Activists in two separate protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies were arrested at the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday — one group unfurling a banner calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while in another act of defiance, a woman climbed the statue’s base to protest immigrant family separations.
Authorities evacuated thousands of visitors from Liberty Island, where the statue stands, after a woman climbed to the statue’s base around 3 p.m. and remained for several hours before police took her into custody.
About 4,500 tourists were forced off the island when officials closed it, according to The New York Times, which said more than 20,000 tourists visit the Statue of Liberty every Fourth of July.
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