Protesters advancing on the ICE facility Credit: Derek Brouwer
Protesters with signs Credit: Derek Brouwer
Marchers Credit: Derek Brouwer
Protesters outside ICE Credit: Derek Brouwer
A thunderstorm swept through during the protest. Credit: Derek Brouwer
A protester Credit: Derek Brouwer
Protesters outside of ICE Credit: Derek Brouwer
A banner Credit: Derek Brouwer
Officers guarding the ICE facility Credit: Derek Brouwer
Amanda Garces addressing protesters Credit: Derek Brouwer
As protesters reached ICE, the U.S. Border Patrol was running a checkpoint in South Hero. Credit: Matthew Roy
Warning motorists of the checkpoint ahead are, from left, Debra Stoleroff, Laura Ziegler, Bob Jones and Deborah Lang Credit: Matthew Roy
Will Lambek of Migrant Justice at the Border Patrol checkpoint Credit: Matthew Roy
Border Patrol vehicles on the causeway Credit: Matthew Roy
The Border Patrol used traffic cones and a few signs to set up its checkpoint. Credit: Matthew Roy
The checkpoint Credit: Matthew Roy
A vehicle leaving the checkpoint Credit: Matthew Roy

Derek Brouwer was a news reporter at Seven Days 2019-2025 who wrote about class, poverty, housing, homelessness, criminal justice and business. At Seven Days his reporting won more than a dozen awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. In collaboration with Vermont Public, he co-reported an investigative series on poor care at Vermont eldercare homes that won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative journalism. Before that,...

News editor Matthew Roy has been at Seven Days since 2014. Before that, he was an editor at The Virginian-Pilot.