00:00In this context, despite frigid and windy conditions, several hundred people gathered at night in Portland's Monument Square to protest, immigration and custom enforcement.
00:11The demonstration was peaceful and attracted minimum police attention.
00:15For their part, speakers criticized the source in anti-immigrant operations, holding signs with slogans such as AIDS out of Maine.
00:23So far, detentions in Maine have worried Portland and Lewiston, which have large immigrant and refugee communities, particularly from Africa.
00:31Community leaders said that, like in other US cities where AIDS has increased its operations, some families are staying indoors, avoiding work and keeping children home from school for fear of arrest.
