Community Defense

ICE Raids Turn Schools Into Battlegrounds To Defend Students

December 3, 2025 Barbara Madeloni, Labor Notes. Organize! Chicago, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Public schools

Educator Carolyn Brown was meeting with school counselors when she got the call: ICE agents were out front. By the time she got out of the building, ICE had abducted a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, an American citizen. Brown, a coordinator of the International Baccalaureate program at Thomas Kelly College Prep, is also part of the rapid-response team for the school, in a Mexican enclave in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. The ICE agents were gone, for the moment. But in the stores across the street, people were too frightened to venture out.

NYC To ICE: Get Out!

November 28, 2025 Renée Feltz, The Indypendent. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, New York City (NYC)

Many New Yorkers now carry a whistle to sound the alarm when they see teams of armed masked agents in fatigues and tactical gear who have started to menace the city, from Washington Heights to East Elmhurst. Others are texting each other in groups they created on the encrypted messaging app Signal. “I was getting notifications in our chat that ICE was knocking on doors, so we rushed over here to see what was happening,” said a Bensonhurst resident, who told AMNY they saw agents abduct a woman described as a young mother with an 8-month old baby.

Detroit Students Fight To Save Classmates Kidnapped By ICE

November 28, 2025 Noelle Belanger and Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Community Defense, Detroit, ICE, Student Activism

Detroit, Illinois - A wave of anger and mobilization is sweeping through Detroit following the detention of two 16-year-old high school students and their families by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week. The teens, asylum seekers from Venezuela, were seized from their home in an early morning raid, which ignited condemnation from teachers, students, and immigrant rights organizations, who are all demanding their immediate release. The students, cousins who are active members of the Western International High School community, were detained along with two of their parents on the morning of Thursday, November 20.

Immigration Raids At This Home Depot Got More Aggressive But Less Effective

November 25, 2025 Tracy Rosenthal, Portside. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrants, Los Angeles, Tenants Union

Arturo had only ever seen agents at the border before, never in Los Angeles. But on Friday, June 6, the Department of Homeland Security descended on a Home Depot near MacArthur Park. As on any other morning, Arturo had arrived at the store to wait alongside more than a hundred jornaleros for a day, or even a few hours, of construction work. He saw people running and heard screams of “la migra” before he laid eyes on the men in fatigues or understood that they were making arrests. He broke into a run, following a crowd through the store’s automatic doors.

An Interview With A Chicago Teacher On Fighting Back Against ICE

November 11, 2025 Gwen Lee, Left Voice. Strategize! Chicago, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Schools, Teachers

Since early September, Chicago has been the latest target of the Trump administration’s brutal Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raids. Trump has declared war on the city and threatened to send in the National Guard, — as he has done in Los Angeles and Washington, DC — with the intent of undermining what few protections exist for immigrants living in these cities and expanding federal repression against working-class and oppressed communities as a whole. Over the past two months, ICE has terrorized communities daily, including military-style raids in apartment buildings and even entering a daycare and abducting a teacher in front of her students.

As Trump Escalates ICE Raids, Local Community Defense Networks Grow

October 18, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, ICE Raids, Immigrant Solidarity, Immigration, Solidarity, Trump Administration, Virginia

The Trump administration has pledged to continue ramping up the controversial operations to detain and deport immigrants. Yet, as his threats intensify, the movement in defense of immigrant rights is rapidly growing and taking shape from the grassroots. In Chicago, people are standing up to federal agents armed and ready to deploy tear gas and pepper spray. Army veterans in Portland are urging federal troops to disobey Trump’s orders, and in Colorado, residents are rejecting the conversion of several private prisons into ICE detention centers.

How Chicago Residents Are Resisting ICE Invasion Of The City

October 18, 2025 Danny Postel, In These Times. Resist! Chicago, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, Immigration, Solidarity, Trump Administration

If there’s one thing President Donald Trump and the people of Chicago might agree on, it’s that America’s third-largest city is currently a “war zone.” But for most Chicagoans, it’s the Trump administration that has made it so, with its military-style “Operation Midway Blitz,” led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and “Operation At Large,” which Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched in Los Angeles and brought to the Windy City in September. “I have lived here for 28 years and I have never felt so profoundly unsafe until this week,” one resident recently posted on social media.

Iced Out

October 12, 2025 Anna Lekas Miller, Progressive.org. Strategize! Alligator Alcatraz, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity, Immigration

An Indigenous nation of fewer than 1,000 people in South Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe doesn’t often get involved in local politics. But then private contractors showed up to an abandoned airport and started erecting a detention center in the middle of the Everglades. The Miccosukee leapt into action, realizing that the behemoth structure would drastically change the fragile wetlands that they call home. It didn’t take long for the so-called Alligator Alcatraz to also develop a reputation for egregious human rights abuses. Billed as an immigration detention center for the “most dangerous criminals,” reports started quickly circulating that detainees were experiencing medical neglect and didn’t have access to basic hygiene.

Chicagoland Under Attack, Residents Fight Back With Rapid Response Teams

September 29, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Chicago, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights

On September 8, the Trump Administration launched 'Operation Midway Blitz to increase the number ICE raids on immigrant communities in Chicagoland. As director of the Casa DuPage Workers Center, Cristobal Cavazos, explains to Clearing the FOG, this initially led to widespread feelings of fear by residents, but organizers turned that into power by creating rapid response teams throughout the region to alert people when ICE comes to their neighborhoods and confront the ICE agents. The teams also do outreach and hand out Know Your Rights information to community members. A growing coalition of immigrants' rights, faith, and other groups is holding protests daily, including at the Broadview detention center, despite the officers attacking demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets. Cavazos describes how activists throughout the country are sharing information and resources and why it is critical to be in the streets right now.

Philly Meeting Shows Why Anti-Fascist Defense Can Work

September 28, 2025 Joe Piette, Workers World. Resist! Community Defense, Fascism, Philadelphia, Right wing extremism

Philadelphia - At a meeting Sept. 18 called by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to oppose the use of federal troops in Philadelphia or other cities, community members stood on an historic church’s steps and kept about five fascists from entering. Krasner is running for a third term as District Attorney. Part of his re-election campaign is persistent criticism of President Donald Trump’s policies. At the first of three meetings Krasner called earlier to oppose the use of federal troops in Philadelphia or other cities, a Trump supporter named Frank Scales alongside a few others disrupted Krasner’s remarks with racist, right-wing denunciations. Coming off as a Charlie Kirk wannabe, Scales announced a protest against Krasner’s 3rd planned meeting, the one scheduled Sep. 18.

Caravan Of Justice Seeks To Chase ICE Out Of Dupage And Elgin

September 23, 2025 Casa Dupage Workers Center, Popular Resistance. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Illinois, Immigrant Rights

Wheaton IL - With Operation Midway Blitz intensifying, seeing ICE terror inflicted across the area across Dupage and Kane County, particularly West Chicago and Elgin, Casa Dupage Workers Center 501c3 along with local allies from houses of worship and from the community with carry out a Caravan of Justice of dozens of cars, to show ICE that the streets of Dupage and Kane County belong to the residents of our County including our hard working Latino immigrants who are being targeted by ICE. The Caravan is a tradition in which cars, decorated with flags and placards, join together to travel the county, and in case of ICE raids, be able to respond with a mass of people ready to protest and protect our County’s most vulnerable, local Latinos working construction sites, restaurants, landscaping jobs and at area factories and warehouses.

Chuck Modi On Repression And Resistance In Washington, DC

September 15, 2025 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. Resistance Report Community Defense, Donald Trump, National Guard, Occupation, Repression, Washington D.C.

It’s been nearly a month since President Trump began his offensive against Washington, DC. This comes as Trump continues to threaten even more cities across the United States with deployment of the National Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other repressive forces to carry out mass deportations and terrorize activists and communities who oppose the Far Right. The offensive in DC has been easier for the administration to carry out due largely to the fact that the city does not have statehood. Despite this, the residents have resisted the federal offensive. Students have staged walkouts, activists including veterans have confronted ICE in the streets, and groups like Free DC have organized regular protests.

North Carolina Electrical Workers Gear Up For Jobsite ICE Defense

September 11, 2025 Jody Anderson, Labor Notes. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, North Carolina, Worker Rights

I'm an electrical worker in IBEW Local 553 in Durham, North Carolina. We're one of the fastest growing locals in the South, with members in both construction and utility line work. Last month, I worked with a group of members to organize an immigrant defense training at our union hall, after persuading our officers to approve it. We worked with local immigrant organization Siembra NC to lead it. We had about twenty people there, half IBEW members and half from other organizations. Everybody agreed it was very useful. Siembra NC combined two trainings into one. One was ICE verification: training people to show up when they hear reports of ICE, and send out a confirmation or an “all clear” to a local network.

ICE Agents Retreat In SUV With Slashed Tires As Protesters Shout ‘Gestapo’

September 11, 2025 Gino Fanelli, Gothamist. Resist! Anti-fascism, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, New York (NY), Rochester

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in an affluent Rochester neighborhood after being confronted by more than 100 protesters on Tuesday. The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed. One of the roofers working on a rental home in the Park Avenue neighborhood was taken into custody. But agents left others apparently unchecked on the home's rooftop. Confrontations between immigration agents and protesters have been escalating across the country, leading the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops to cities like Los Angeles and elsewhere.

DC Against Trump Coalition Community Police Patrol Black Neighborhood

September 9, 2025 Iain McNeely, Fight Back! News. Organize! Community Defense, DC, Police, Trump Administration, Washington

Washington, D.C. — On Friday, September 5, over 30 activists and community members assembled in Washington, D.C. 's Navy Yard neighborhood for a “mass cop watch” organized by the DC Against Trump Agenda (DCAT) coalition. This cop watch is just one of many actions that the coalition has organized in weeks since President Trump declared that he would be federalizing DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploying the National Guard to the city. “This is an occupation,” said Kristen Bonner, organizer for the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR). “We are seeing heavily armed soldiers on our streets, our buses, and our trains. Sometimes as many as a dozen on a single block.”

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