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Protesting during a pandemic

LATE ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON in April, protesters clad in face masks and bandannas gathered in a truck stop parking lot off the freeway between Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. The posters taped on their cars read “Free Them All” and “Detention Is Deadly.”

This unique protest, planned by grassroots groups, including Puente Human Rights Movement, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, and No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid organization, called for the release of

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