> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Bay Area Protests Trump's Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/bay-area-protests-trumps-child-detention-policy-with-billboard-and-projection/ - Published: 2018-06-21T16:02:46.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:39:20.000Z - Description: A clandestine modification of a junk removal billboard and a nighttime projection of a political cartoon called out the president's family separation policy. - Author: Benjamin Sutton - Tags: News, Donald Trump, Immigration, Indecline, Protest Art, Rob Rogers, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018) ![The billboard after Indecline's intervention (photo courtesy Indecline)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/06/indecline-ice-billboard-after.jpg) The billboard after Indecline’s intervention (photo courtesy Indecline) Is the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) advertising its brutal practice of [separating migrant families](https://www.vox.com/2018/6/19/17481372/family-separation-immigrant-orphans-john-sandweg-former-ice-director?ref=hyperallergic.com)? If you were driving along Interstate 80 in California’s East Bay last night or early this morning, you might have seen what appeared to be a billboard for ICE flaunting its inhumane expertise — “We make kids disappear” — alongside the [Munchian](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/the-scream/) image of a shocked and screaming child. The ignoble advertisement is in fact the work of [satiric and shadowy public art collective](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/indecline/) [Indecline](https://thisisindecline.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), whose members scaled the billboard (which formerly promoted 1-800-Got-Junk?’s ability to “make junk disappear”) in the night and transformed it into a provocative indictment of ICE. At the time this article was published, a spokesperson for Indecline said that the modified billboard was still in place. ![The billboard before Indecline's intervention (photo courtesy Indecline)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/06/indecline-ice-billboard-before.jpg) The billboard before Indecline’s intervention (photo courtesy Indecline) Indecline’s rogue gesture wasn’t the only monumental expression of artistic outrage with President Trump’s inhumane immigration policy — which has resulted in [some 2,300 children being separated](https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17486446/family-separation-reunification-trump-executive-order-immigration?ref=hyperallergic.com), seemingly indefinitely, from their parents — in the Bay Area this week. On Monday night, an image of a comic blasting the practice was projected onto San Francisco’s Federal Building. > That comic that got [@Rob\_Rogers](https://twitter.com/Rob%5FRogers?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) fired? Now it’s projected on the SF Federal Building. [#FamilySeparation](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FamilySeparation?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#FamiliesBelongTogether](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FamiliesBelongTogether?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#KeepingFamiliesTogetherAct](https://twitter.com/hashtag/KeepingFamiliesTogetherAct?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [pic.twitter.com/LFqdsddTGb](https://t.co/LFqdsddTGb?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — ÆMarling (@AEMarling) [June 19, 2018](https://twitter.com/AEMarling/status/1009116454162055168?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) The comic is the work of celebrated political cartoonist [Rob Rogers](http://robrogers.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), whom the *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette* fired last week after refusing to run 19 of his comics since the beginning of the year, as the *Washington Post* [reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/06/14/pittsburgh-post-gazette-fires-anti-trump-cartoonist-and-mayor-says-it-sends-wrong-message-about-press-freedoms/?utm%5Fterm=.a0370a225c25&ref=hyperallergic.com). One of the last ones he made during his 25 years as the paper’s editorial cartoonist, it depicts a roadside “Caution” sign in which the silhouette of President Trump abducts a child as its parents flee. Though the *Post-Gazette* refused to publish that one as well, it was reproduced widely through syndication and social media. > I am back at the drawing table today working on an immigration cartoon for syndication tomorrow. Until then, I figure this killed cartoon is worth a repost. [#TrumpandtheBabySnatchers](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpandtheBabySnatchers?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#TrumpCamps](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpCamps?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#Trump](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#ImmigrantChildren](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImmigrantChildren?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [#Immigration](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Immigration?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) [pic.twitter.com/EtZ6LTtR28](https://t.co/EtZ6LTtR28?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Rob Rogers (@Rob\_Rogers) [June 18, 2018](https://twitter.com/Rob%5FRogers/status/1008787189361233920?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) Rogers himself even endorsed the nighttime projection of his work, [retweeting](https://twitter.com/Rob%5FRogers/status/1009132636873347072?ref=hyperallergic.com) the original photo by fantasy author [A.E. Marling](https://twitter.com/AEMarling/status/1009116454162055168?ref=hyperallergic.com) with the enthusiastic comment: “This is how all political cartoons should be displayed!”