Demonstrators rally against deportations in Atlanta

Activists locked themselves to the gates outside a federal government building in downtown Atlanta Tuesday as part of a boisterous demonstration against the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

Witnesses said authorities used bolt cutters to break the bicycle locks the activists used and took 14 people into custody just outside a building that houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices and federal immigration courtrooms.

The activists called on President Barack Obama to halt the record numbers of deportations that have occurred while he has been in office. And they called on the administration to expand a controversial program that grants illegal immigrants two-year reprieves from deportation.