An immigration rights group set up nearly a dozen displays outside polling locations in Des Moines, Iowa, condemning President Trump's family separation policy and the treatment of migrants at the southern border of the United States.

"This happens every day," Lucia Allain, a spokeswoman for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, told the Washington Examiner. "People are finally waking up to this issue, and this helps spread awareness."

The displays feature fake children in cages and audio recordings of actual immigrant children crying and screaming while in the custody of federal immigration authorities.

"#DontLookAway," signs above the waist-high metal cages read.



Caucus-goers in Iowa woke up to kids in cages all over the city of Des Moines. Why? @RAICESTexas want to remind everyone that this is still happening & we need a solution NOW. #DontLookAway



We need the #MigrantJusticePlatform.

Read it & sign on: https://t.co/CJmvcmunnz pic.twitter.com/HlVzcrf8WF — Ricardo Aca 🦋 (@RicardoAcaNYC) February 3, 2020

Powerful witness@altochulo: Wow. Twelve chain-link cages, symbolizing immigrant children in detention across the country, have been installed outside of #IowaCaucus sites this morning.



Kudos to ⁦@RAICESTEXAS⁩ for this powerful action. #DontLookAway pic.twitter.com/S2ePBYTyUl” — John Cusack (@johncusack) February 3, 2020



Allain said she and a team of seven organizers worked for two days with little sleep to place the cages around Des Moines outside polling locations where prospective caucusgoers in the city are expected to cast their votes in the Democratic and Republican primaries for president. Most of the displays went up between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., but city police removed eight of the cages, according to local media reports.

“The items appear to have been placed as a political statement," the department said in a statement. "The City of Des Moines enjoys the privilege of hosting and participating in Iowa’s “first in the nation” caucuses and has a long history of supporting the expression of differing opinions and accommodating the right to lawful protest."

Immigration activists staged a similar protest in New York last year.

“The horrors at our border and throughout our immigration system are too often ignored by the public and politicians,” said Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, in a statement. “We’re asking people in Iowa and across the country: Don’t look away from the terrors enacted in your name. Don’t look away from the kids in cages, the asylum-seekers turned back at our border, the deportation raids destroying communities across the country. This anti-immigrant crackdown has to end.”

Organizers are not just upset at Trump's immigration policies, they said.

"This has been happening for decades," Allain said. "We have just now gone to the extreme."