Two weeks after hundreds of people turned out at a busy East Cobb intersection to protest the policies of President Donald Trump, another rally has been scheduled for the same place this week.
A group called the Not Above the Law Coalition will stage the rally at Roswell and Johnson Ferry roads for Thursday from 5-6:30 p.m. to protest the Trump administration’s immigration deportations.
The rally is entitled “Disappeared in America” and is one of several scheduled across the country on Thursday, which the group has designated as a “national day of action.”
The rally is organized similarly to the “No Kings” rallies that took place on June 14, including East Cobb.
According to the invitation for Thursday’s rally, “in America, the government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straight to a foreign prison.
“Disappeared in America is a national day of action to stand up for the rule of law and confront the Trump administration’s illegal abductions, detentions, and deportations of people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Rui Marras, and Juan Maldonado Zuniga.”
The group says the Trump administration is failing to provide due process, and that the president “has said he wants to abduct and deport U.S. citizens. If this he isn’t stopped now, no one is safe.”
An East Cobb couple we have been reporting on was detained at a Georgia ICE facility in April after being questioned at their home. The wife has since been released but her husband has been transferred to a detention facility in Mississippi as their son works to free him.
Not Above the Law also is calling for sheriffs to refuse to cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
Recent polls have Trump’s approval rating still below 50 percent, but he is polling stronger on immigration than many other issues.
Not Above the Law doesn’t appear to have a website, but other sources indicate it was formed in 2017 after the start of Trump’s first term. The coalition’s co-chairs come from Public Citizen and Stand Up America, both left-of-center advocacy groups.
Earlier this year, the coalition organized protests against the electric-car company Tesla, owned by Trump ally Elon Musk.
Other members of Not Above the Law include a variety of other left-of-center organizations, according to Influence Watch.
Influence Watch is part of the Capital Research Center, which is a right-leaning think tank investigating non-profits involved in political advocacy.
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