ICE in Vermont
Emma Taylor McCallum | March 24, 2026
In Vermont on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed a house in South Burlington, seizing three people, none of whom were named on the warrant, later identified as Cristian Humberto Jerez Andrade, 31, and two sisters: Daysi Camila Patin Patin, 20, and Jissela Johana Patin Patin, 31.
On Thursday, Vermonters took to the streets protesting the first ICE confrontation to have happened in Vermont, a state thought to be exceedingly progressive. Protesters were outraged at the assistance provided by the South Burlington police department.
People march from the Burlington City Hall to the Federal building protesting the ICE raid that had taken place the day prior. ICE officers broke into a house in South Burlington, seizing three people from inside and arresting three protesters. (Echo/Emma Taylor McCallum)
Protesters marched with homemade signs, Palestinian flags and painted banners from City Hall up the center of the Church Street Marketplace to the Federal building housing U.S. Courts, U.S. Attorney's Office, the day prior, demanding the release of those detained and protesting the arrests, which included activists and neighbors who had been trying to protect the family.
The air at the protest was outraged, saddened, but there was also a sense of community and determination as cups of homemade jamaica and horchata were passed out through the crowd from grandmothers in knitted hats to small children in snowsuits.