More than 200 demonstrations took place across the United States on Saturday as part of the 'Communities Not Cages National Day of Action' to protest ICE's detention expansion. The protests targeted ICE's conversion of commercial warehouses into detention centers, with the agency having spent hundreds of millions of dollars since January to purchase at least 11 facilities across eight states. Organizers, including Detention Watch Network and other advocacy groups, called for an end to what they described as detention facilities operating under heightened cruelty and demanded the shutdown of all immigration detention facilities.