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Why protesters filled the Gainesville square on July 4

Former candidate for Georgia's 9th Congressional District Josh McCall, center, speaks to a crowd with his family standing with him during a protest on the downtown Gainesville square against immigration detention centers on Thursday, July 4, 2019. - photo by Austin Steele

07052019 PROTEST 001.jpg — Former candidate for Georgia's 9th Congressional District Josh McCall, center, speaks to a crowd with his family standing with him during a protest on the downtown Gainesville square against immigration detention centers on Thursday, July 4, 2019. - photo by Austin Steele

While some residents spent Independence Day on Lake Lanier, cooking out at local parks and taking in showers of fireworks across Hall County, others took to the downtown Gainesville square to protest the federal government’s response to the migrant crisis at America’s southern border with Mexico.