ILLEGAL immigrants waving Mexican flags DEMAND The US Government Building Shutdown

Calling for the shutdown of the immigration department and joined by the chants of more than 100 protesters, three women chained themselves to a fence on the outside of a detention center Monday to demand the release of three men inside, then were arrested themselves.



“Nobody is listening to us,” said Mitzie Perez, 22, of politicians extending all the way up to the White House.



“Maybe this will get their attention,” she said, sitting outside the prison gate, locked to it with a bicycle lock around her neck.



Perez, along with Dianey Murillo and Lizeth Montiel, put the locks around their own necks and pinned themselves for about three hours to the fence outside the Adelanto Detention Facility East, a private High Desert facility.



They called for the release of Carlos A. Hidalgo of Azusa; Santos Maltez, an Echo Park father of four; and Artyom Karapetyan, an Armenian businessman, said Alessandro Negrete, statewide coordinator for California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, which organized the protest outside of the facility, where the men were being held because of their immigration status, according to organizers.



“We don’t believe in ‘high-priority’ or ‘low priority’ but according to the (Obama) administration’s definition these particular cases are low-priority. And they’ve been detained unjustly,” Negrete said.