Community Defense

Corona, Queens Says No! To ICE Round-Ups

August 12, 2026 Stephen Millies, Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, New York City (NYC)

Hundreds of people came to Corona Plaza in Queens, New York this afternoon to say no to Trump’s round-ups of immigrant workers and their families. The working-class neighborhood has been targeted by the ICE Gestapo for round-ups of immigrant workers and their families. People carried colorful signs declaring ICE = Gestapo and Hands Off New York. Overhead rumbled the No. 7 subway train. People chanted “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” — “The people united will never be defeated!” Speakers emphasized the role of immigrants as essential workers, especially in health care.

ICE and Data Centers Aren’t New, But Face Growing Pushback

August 10, 2026 Austin C. McCoy, Truthout. Strategize! Big Tech, Community Defense, Data Centers, ICE

On July 13, residents of Neptune Township, New Jersey, voted to ban AI data centers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jails from being built in their town. While protests against the construction of AI data centers and ICE facilities have increased since Donald Trump’s reelection, the Neptune Township ordinance is the first in the U.S. reflecting a connection between the deportation regime and Big Tech. Neptune residents’ move to oppose technofascism in their town also demonstrates the potential to form new coalitions, powered by grassroots organizing, for more democratic participation in local development.

Excerpt: How To Close A Camp

August 10, 2026 John Washington, Portside. Strategize! Book Review, Community Defense, Detention Centers, Immigrant Rights

By the late 1980s, thanks to over a decade of laws criminalizing immigrants and expanding the camp system, prison and immigration detention industries were operating by their own economic logics. Even in the face of recessions, the prison industry kept growing. Immigration detention was seen by the Reagan administration as “recession-proof.” For private corporations like CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), founded in 1983, immigration detention was a financial lifeline. Federal contracts insulated companies from state budget crises and guaranteed steady revenue streams.

What D.C.’s Election Defense Under Occupation Can Teach Us

August 7, 2026 Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Community Defense, Democracy, Elections, Washington DC

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the National Guard’s occupation of Washington, D.C., it’s worth pausing to learn what D.C. resistance has to teach us — especially heading into the midterms. Many of us are carrying real fear about how far Trump might go to interfere with this election. Our fear isn’t unwarranted. But it doesn’t have to be ungrounded, either. Yes, he will say outrageous things. Yes, the heads of the Department of Justice and FBI are trying to keep power for their boss and intimidate voter rights groups. Yes, if Trump could stop elections he would.

A Fascist Organization Set Up Shop In Their Town, Residents Fought Back

July 27, 2026 Shane Burley, Truthout. Resist! Appalachia, Community Defense, Fascism, West Virginia

There is a certain symmetry to what we have experienced over the past decade of collapsing national consensus and far right radicalization. In cities and small towns around the country, people are watching as their friendships break down along lines of political or moral agreement, and as the shadow of white nationalism towers over even the most seemingly idyllic environments. This is the conflict that researcher and journalist Michael Edison Hayden found when looking at Berkeley Springs, a small and astoundingly beautiful corner of West Virginia nestled along the edge of Appalachia, where the anti-immigrant group VDARE, a popular far right publication founded in 1999 that mixed edgy Republicans like Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter with explicit white nationalists, decided to purchase a literal castle to use as its home base.

An Urgent Blueprint For ‘How To Close A Camp’

July 22, 2026 Britta Shoot, Scheer Post. Strategize! Community Defense, Detention Centers, ICE, Immigrant Rights

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, dozens of immigrants have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Between January and July 6 this year, at least 21 individuals have died in federal custody. In January, during ICE’s siege in Minneapolis, agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed community defenders Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two of at least 11 individuals killed by DHS agents since the start of Trump’s second term. While there was a brief decline in ICE activity after the high-profile Minneapolis murders, the ICE’s surge of violence has mostly continued unabated. This includes the July 7 killing in Texas of 52-year-old father of three, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and the July 12 killing in Maine of 26-year-old father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

Community Activism Forced Plans For ICE Warehouses To Be Abandoned

July 14, 2026 Brian Dolinar, Truthout. Resist! Community Defense, Detention Centers, ICE, Immigrant Rights

In a change of course, the Trump administration’s plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively scaled back. As Truthout reported earlier this year, local communities mobilized swiftly to stop these massive detention sites, some capable of holding up to 10,000 people with no infrastructure to manage the waste and water needs. In January 2026, an internal memo was leaked revealing a list of some two dozen places where the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had purchased or was seeking to buy large warehouses to hold immigrant detainees.

The FBI Has Deputized Local Cops As Federal Agents

July 12, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. Resist! Community Defense, FBI, ICE, State Repression, Trump Administration

As the Trump administration widens its crackdown on immigrant communities and progressive activists, federal task forces are playing an important behind-the-scenes role. Organizers warn that institutions like the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) are targeting vulnerable communities and sharing the kind of information that facilitates Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. But some say the current political climate also presents opportunities as appetites grow for local and state agencies to cut ties with the federal task forces endangering their communities.

Bozeman Rallies Against ICE As They Invade Gallatin Valley

July 12, 2026 Daisy Baertschi, Fight Back! News. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Montana

Bozeman, MT – On Monday, June 29, ICE agents arrived in Montana's Gallatin County and began a wide-ranging dragnet operation targeting the local immigrant communities, with assistance from the Montana Highway Patrol. More than 100 people are estimated to have been abducted as of July 9. In contrast with ICE operations in the past, such as Metro Surge in Minneapolis, known abductions in Gallatin County have primarily targeted suburban and semi-rural residents, construction jobsites and areas devoid of potential witnesses.

Detroit People’s Tribunal Takes Mask Off ICE

July 8, 2026 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Community Defense, Detroit, ICE, National Guard, People's Tribunal

On Saturday, June 27, the Detroit People’s Tribunal was convened at the Historic St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in the North End of Detroit. This event had been in the making for more than five months prompted by a series of developments including the deployment of National Guard and Marine units in other cities such as Los Angeles, Memphis and Washington, D.C. during late 2025 and earlier this year. Several organizations sponsored and endorsed the event with Detroit Will Breathe, People’s Assembly, Democratic Socialist of America Detroit Chapter among others taking the lead in mobilizing the people.

Hundreds Protest ICE In Milwaukee

July 5, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI – On Wednesday, July 1, hundreds gathered at Kosciuszko Park to protest the recent spike in ICE activity in the area. Since the end of the previous week, ICE had arrested dozens of people in Wisconsin, with most cases happening in Milwaukee. ICE agents had been terrorizing the city’s Southside, where many immigrants reside, breaking car windows and kidnapping people from inside their cars. These aggressive tactics quickly led he ICE Out of MKE Coalition to launch broad outreach efforts and Wednesday’s action. The community’s response was clear – we need to educate our people and show strong leadership and unity against ICE’s threats.

India’s Left Stands Against The Right Wing’s Bulldozers

July 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, Breakthrough News. Resist! Community Defense, forced displacement, India, Right wing politics

Thousands are taking to the streets of the capital, Kolkata, and other major cities in the Indian state of West Bengal everyday against the newly elected ultra-right-wing government’s policy of large-scale demolitions of houses and small shops. The mobilizations, some spontaneous but mostly organized by the left parties in the state, are a result of the left’s call to not allow such actions to take place without proper rehabilitation and compensation, as most of the affected are poor and marginalized people. Whenever the bulldozers turn up for demolition without prior notification and well announced rehabilitation plans, cadres and local leaders of the left parties, carrying red flags and banners, march with the affected population often surrounding them and forcing them to retreat.

Minnesota Activists Prepare To Defend Anti-ICE Protesters

July 3, 2026 Ibrahim Hirsi, Truthout. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Legal System, Minnesota, State Repression

Minnesota activists and scholars are decrying the recent federal indictment of 15 people who took part in demonstrations against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities metro region earlier this year. The indictment accuses the protesters of surveilling federal agents, disrupting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, and training people on how to delay or prevent arrests, among other allegations. It also alleges that the defendants are members of antifa-linked groups like the Black Cat Worker’s Collective, which prosecutors describe as an organization committed to “militant class struggle” and “revolution.”

ICE Will Be At The World Cup, But Organizers Are Ready

June 12, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Unions, world cup

With the World Cup starting on June 11, workers, residents and activists in its 16 host cities across North America are mobilizing against the increased presence of police and of Immigration Customs and Enforcement, or ICE, in communities of color during the World Cup. On May Day, thousands of people, led by the Unite HERE Local 11 union of hospitality workers walked from Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park to the FIFA building downtown, where they proceeded to drop more than a hundred soccer balls down the steps, chanting “kick ICE out.”

Charleston Organizers Launch ‘Barrio Walks’

June 6, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Barrio Walks, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, South Carolina

Charleston, SC – As immigration enforcement intensifies across South Carolina, the Charleston chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO) has launched rapid-response “Barrio Walks”, with volunteers canvassing apartment complexes and neighborhoods being targeted by ICE. Working in coordination with the Charleston Immigrant Community Hotline, CSO identifies areas seeing significant ICE activity and mobilizes quickly to distribute whistle kits to residents. Each kit contains know-your-rights cards, a zine with planning resources, trusted local legal contacts, tips for identifying ICE, and a whistle which can be used to alert neighbors when ICE is present in the area.

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