El Rio de Sangre/River of Blood

Extinction Rebellion Portland statement on their FB page.
"XR PDX poured 50 gallons of fake blood in front of the ICE building on SW Macadam today. We offer the following statement:
"Extinction Rebellion PDX calls on all to recognize that climate justice and immigration justice are intertwined. As capitalism has exacted a devastating toll on the global south through the exploitation of both its labor and its natural resources, so does it seek again to shut the gates against those brothers and sisters it has left least prepared to deal with the ravages of climate change.
"As we fight for a transition to a post-carbon society, we recognize our duty to ensure that this is a just transition, that prioritizes the most vulnerable people who have been on the receiving end of years of environmental injustice, both here and around the world.
"This afternoon, XR PDX activists poured 50 gallons of fake blood in front of the ICE building on SW Macadam. Our action was a protest of the inhumane conditions of the US immigration system including those at detention camps at the Southern border and nationwide that are directly resulting in the deaths of immigrants, and an effort to highlight the role of climate change in forced migration worldwide.
The action is called 'El Rio De Sangre/The River Of Blood.' Rio de Sangre is a metaphor that evokes both the Rio Grande river, and the bloodshed of the US’s racist immigration policies. The blood—made of water, food coloring, and xanthan gum—symbolized the lives lost in the journey across the border as well as in ICE and CBP custody, which include six young children. We dipped our hands in the crimson liquid to signify that the US government has the blood of asylum-seekers on their hands and that if we do not rise up we are complicit."
The Institute for Global Economics and Peace estimates that in 2017, 61% of all migration—that of 18 million people—was due to natural disasters. We are now living in an era of unrelenting climate change-driven natural disasters and we can expect to see the number of people displaced by those events to rise exponentially. Extinction Rebellion believes that it is critical that we develop a human rights-based immigration policy through a process led by those most impacted by forced migration."