EL SOBRANTE — Manjit Kaur hopped into the backseat of a family friend’s Honda to escape the unrelenting clamor of car horns outside, desperate for a quiet place to hear her mother-in-law’s voice – the first time Harjit Kaur was able to call from an ICE detention center in the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, almost 300 miles away from her longtime Hercules home.

Kaur’s family was told that a 15-minute call from Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center would cost $52, but eight different credit cards failed to process and she was never able to connect.

Outside, meanwhile, hundreds of protesters were spending their Friday night on sidewalks and crosswalks, where regularly seen signs calling to “Melt ICE” were joined by new ones supporting Kaur and demanding “Bring Grandma Home.” All solicit

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