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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5-- A group of environmental activists on Monday began month-long demonstrations against the U.S. government's "brutal" policy against immigrants and asylum seekers. The activists from No Coal in Oakland, a grassroots organization in the Bay Area, rallied for a noon-hour protest in front of the headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in downtown San Francisco to voice their opposition to the government's "brutal" treatment of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. "For the month of August, there's going to be a demonstration in front of ICE every day of the month by all sorts of different groups to demonstrate their solidarity around the fact that we can't have these concentration camps," Margaret Rossoff, press liaison for Monday's demonstration of Climate Justice, told Xinhua. Because of the inhumane immigration policy of the current administration, many kids are being locked out in jails and families are separated, she said. "The current policies are reprehensible and we are embarrassed and outraged by them," she added. Rossoff noted that a lot of people are now becoming immigrants and refugees because of climate change that forced people to migrate, and their houses and homes are running a risk of being flooded and people are facing starvation. "The United States should make people welcome, rather than closing the doors," she said. | 
