gregorio casar and rafael anchia welcome to democracy now! you talk casar, could about your arrest last week and the movement of public officials opposed to sb4? >> sure. the governor is clearly trying to coerce our communities and cocourse local elected officials into betraying immigrants, akin to during our police into -- turning our police into trump's deportation n force. we are going to refuse to do it. we had a sit in at the governor's office last week. we sat for nine hoururs, group f clergy, community leaders, and we were ultimately arrested. more portly, we sent a strong message to the goverernor that e are not scared, that we're not afraid and he is not the king. instead of caving in to his demands, we're going to double down on are pro immigrant policies here in austin and across the state. we're also -- we sued, i personally and my colleagues here in austin, were sued for the audacity of questioning bill four not senate is constitutional. instead of being silenced by his threats, i am calling that only on my colleagues, but county

in texas, two dozen people were arrested, including austin city councilmember gregorio casar, after an eight hour sit-in at the office of texas governor greg abbott in protest of anti-immmmigrant bilill sb4. ththis is julilie ann nitstsch. a six g generation n texan. mymy family has served d this coununtry for a very lolong tim. we did not come to t this county to l live in a c country whehere people are s stopped, detaiain,d ababused becauause of the colorf their skinin. itit is racistst. all law enforcement officers are against it. the only why the politicians are pushing it is so thehey can gett racacistm aa consnstituency. they havave to be e stopped. amy: in many cities and rurural areas, some immigrants launched a one-day work strike, including in homestead, florida, where farm workers refusused to work d instead marched to city hall. monday's immigrant-led d protess came as newly released data from the immigrations and customs enforcement agency, known as ice, shows nearly half of the 675 immigrants arrested in ice raids in february had either low-level driving convictions or no