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Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return Of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal immigration status in the United States and no criminal record, she was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12. Traore is a beloved member of the Iowa City community and of AFSCME Council 61, Local 12. She is also the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is three years old. When I first heard the news of her September detention, I was upset that ICE had taken someone from the very hospital where I worked.

How Self-Organization Can Beat Repression

A brutal crackdown is being unleashed on France’s high school student movement.  The number of arrests of minors is reaching historic highs. Horrific images are flooding social media and the news: a 14-year-old maimed by a Cougar round fired at point-blank range; two high school students blinded, the first by a rubber bullet, the second likely by a grenade; a teenager whose hand was torn off after a grenade exploded; ram-car attacks in Troyes and Dunkirk carried out by the national police, who charged at high speed into groups of high school students; a helicopter deployed in Toulouse; a police commander accused by a high school student of attempting to drown him.

New Yorkers Demand ‘ICE Out’ After Bronx Father Shot

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot seven rounds into the vehicle of a New York father while his five-year-old son was in the car on the afternoon of Thursday, October 8. Oscar Belgal, a Dominican man, who had just picked up his son from school, was hit in the neck but survived the shooting. He is currently being detained by ICE in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being discharged from the hospital Thursday night. His lawyers have reported that he still has a bullet lodged in his body more than 24 hours after being shot. 

We Must Move Beyond The Era Of State-Sponsored, State-Celebrated Murder

From the firing squad to the solitary cell, the carceral system operates through “human sacrifice,” as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it: “The power to put humans in cages also derives from the power to kill — not only by way of the ritualized punishment of the death penalty, but also by life sentences, as well as the ritual of serially excused police killings that transformed #BlackLivesMatter from a lament to a movement.” The death penalty revival, and the wider ecosystem of criminalization rhetoric and policy in which it lives, is symptomatic of a larger, sharply cynical abandonment of life-affirming values and practices.

Vermont: Activists Target What They Call Major ‘Spy Center’ For ICE

After setting up robust rapid-response groups to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abductions and stopping the buying up of warehouses to detain thousands of immigrants, activists are now focusing on other ways they can disrupt the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations. On the East Coast, some are targeting the parking spots that ICE uses for staging arrests. In Buffalo, New York, people are fighting to evict ICE from an office building where they coordinate operations and detain people. In Vermont, activists are planning a week of action to shut down a major ICE surveillance center hidden away in an office park.

A Growing Movement To Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center

A glimmering 12-story building towers over the intersection where Delaware Avenue meets Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo. The building is owned by Uniland Development, a major Buffalo real estate developer. Surrounded by coffee shops, luxury hotels, and boutique restaurants, the building’s facade is emblazoned with the corporate logo of its anchor tenant, Delaware North, one of the world’s largest concessions corporations, headquartered in Buffalo. But amid the daily humdrum at 250 Delaware Avenue — paper shuffling inside, cars honking outside — is, to many Buffalonians, something more shocking.

After ICE Shooting, Austin Community Organizes

Federal prosecutors in Texas charged a Venezuelan national and father living in Austin on Tuesday with assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal officer, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sideswiped his car and shot him in the back Sept. 20 without warning as he was turning around to park.  Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, entered the U.S. in 2024 with a valid work permit to seek asylum and provide for his son in Venezuela, who has mobility disabilities that require expensive physical therapy, through a program begun under former President Joe Biden. However, President Donald Trump ended the program on his first day in office. 

Activists Are Targeting One Of ICE’s Key Staging Grounds

The Trump administration’s abduction and deportation machine is multifaceted. There are clear-cut components — agents, shackles, and jails — and less obvious, although no less essential, ones — cars and parking spaces. In an effort to impede the attacks on immigrants, mayors of some of the country’s largest cities, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, have issued executive orders banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using city-owned parking lots and properties. But even in cities where mayors have banned ICE from using government-owned properties, ICE still has free reign to contract with private companies.

Minnesotans Protest At Governor’s Mansion For Sanctuary State

St. Paul, MN – On Saturday, September 26, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and dozens of community members protested at the Governor’s Residence to demand that Tim Walz sign an executive order making Minnesota a sanctuary state. The rally also brought attention to there being only 100 days remaining of Walz’s term as governor, adding a sense of urgency to the call for Walz to address the demands. Protesters raised that ICE is still violating the rights of Minnesotans and tearing families apart.

Labor, Civil Rights Groups Sue To Stop ICE At The Polls

Alarmed by reports that Republican President Donald Trump will send heavily armed and violent ICE agents to the polls nationwide—to act as they did when they rampaged through Minneapolis-St. Paul—a coalition of unions and civil rights groups wants federal judges to ban the deployments. In a 65-page brief filed in U.S. District Court in D.C., the Teachers/AFT, the Service Employees, the Painters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the NAACP, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Urban League and their allies declare that the purpose of the deployments is to intimidate and prevent voters, especially voters of color, from casting their ballots on November 3.

The Movement To Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum

Echoing activists across the country, the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the United States government to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Emerging from the #Not1More campaign organized by undocumented activists and groups like Puente and Juntos in 2014, and gaining momentum with concerted organizing by grassroots groups such as Mijente, Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants, La Resistencia, and many others, the movement to abolish ICE has been building for years.

Immigrants Aren’t Taking Away Our Healthcare, ICE Is

The cost of healthcare just keeps going up — and millions of Americans are set to lose coverage. Under the GOP’s so-called ​“Big Beautiful Bill,” around 17 million people in this country will lose health care thanks to the law’s Medicaid cuts, failure to renew Affordable Care Act subsidies and other changes. Those cuts accelerate after this year’s midterms. Instead, that money is going toward tax cuts for the rich plus record budgets for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Pentagon. Immigrants — including well over 1 million residents who are lawfully present — will be especially hard hit.

How Federal Agents Surveilled A Worker Assembly In Minneapolis

On February 15, during Operation Metro Surge and following the January 23 economic shutdown, around 400 people from the Twin Cities gathered at the United Labor Centre in Minneapolis for a workers’ assembly on building the movement against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to newly released documents in the case against the Minnesota 15, who were indicted in June and charged with conspiracy for alleged anti-ICE activity, undercover federal agents were present at the assembly, and reported on the minute workings of the gathering. 

Horrors Of Trump’s Third Country Migrant Deportation Program Shockingly Exposed

Two days ago, on Channel 4 News in the UK, reporter Jamal Osman traveled to Liberia, in west Africa, to meet some of the 14 US migrants who were recently deported there from the US, as part of the Trump administration’s grotesque mass deportation program. The program is overseen and tightly controlled by Stephen Miller, Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor, who, it is fair to say, is nothing less than a modern-day Nazi, obsessed with, and driving with fanatical enthusiasm his plans for the mass ethnic cleansing of the United States. I wrote about Miller’s profoundly baleful, racist influence on the US in an article in February, entitled, An Ever-Expanding Gulag of Concentration Camps for Immigrants: The US Under Stephen Miller.

ICE Denounced For ‘Official Policy Of Disappearing People’

Critics reacted with horror to a Monday report from The Associated Press detailing how US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has abruptly ended its practice of disclosing the locations of thousands of detainees. According to the AP, ICE “has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding... detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them.” Immigration attorneys who spoke with the AP said that their clients had “vanished” from the system after ICE removed them from its online detainee locator system last week.
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