About ten of UUCPA’s members and friends were part of the crowd on April 15, 2025, at a protest demanding that the Trump administration obey the Supreme Court by returning Kilmar Ábrego García home. Through what ICE calls an “administrative error,” Ábrego García was sent to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center last month.
The protest was announced just 24 hours earlier and garnered 150 attendees, according to the Mountain View Voice (see article). Many held homemade signs calling for due process, respect for the constitution, greater compassion, an end to deportations, or more colorfully, a one-way trip to Mars for Elon Musk.
Where there’s UUCPA, there is music, and when two of us began singing “This Little Light of Mine,” the crowd joined in, helped along by the Raging Grannies’ Ruth Robertson, also a friend of UUCPA. Batman also made an appearance. He gave no explanation, but took up the megaphone to call for accountability by our leaders and action by the people.
Pro Bono Photo, which was founded by UUCPA’s Jack Owicki, sent volunteer photographer Alfred Leung to cover the protest. The complete gallery of his photos from the event is posted here.