Above photo: Immigrant rights protesters in Houston this week. PSL Houston.
From Los Angeles to Milwaukee to San Antonio to Anchorage, cities around the United States will rally against Trump’s mass deportation operation.
As Trump’s administration escalates immigration enforcement raids across the United States, detaining around 1,000 immigrants on a daily basis in sweeping arrests, the movement against harsh measures has grown. Protests have been called for the weekend of February 7 through 9 to oppose Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Demonstrations have been scheduled in cities across the country including Riverside, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Antonio, Texas; Anchorage, Alaska; Chicago, Illinois; New York City; Phoenix, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Indianapolis, Indiana.
In Colorado, where high-profile raids took place at apartment buildings in East Denver and Aurora, including in The Edge at Lowry apartment complex which has been at the epicenter of anti-migrant fearmongering, organizers with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are planning a demonstration at the Colorado Capitol Building in Denver.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation interviewed Luis Fernando, a Venezuelan immigrant, who claimed that federal agents grabbed his brother from their car during an immigration enforcement operation in Denver. “They grabbed him from the car by force. It’s like they were grabbing us for a criminal case, but we’re just here working,” Fernando said.
Students have been taking a stand in defense of immigrant communities across the United States, organizing walkouts in cities such as San Antonio and Los Angeles. Students at Garfield High School and Stern Math and Science School joined other Los Angeles students from several other schools in a walkout on Tuesday, February 4.
The moment that students at Garfield High and Stern Math and Science School joined forces as part of a walkout for immigrant rights that included seven Los Angeles schools. pic.twitter.com/zhRBYdzRYJ
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) February 6, 2025