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Immigrant Rights Activists Deliver Petition To Santa Ana Judges

July 19, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Santa Ana, CA – On Friday, July 17 several members of Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) delivered a petition to the Santa Ana Immigration Court. In May of 2025, the court was one of the first places Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started arresting people. CSO OC has been running a campaign since then to pressure the immigration judges to move all hearings online so that people attending their hearings would not have to face ICE at the court. They collected over 1000 signatures calling for this.

Mass Immigration Hearings Inside Crowded Courtrooms

July 16, 2026 Kate Morrissey, Capital and Main. , , ,
The Trump administration has found a way for immigration judges to order dozens of immigrants deported at the same time. Known widely as mega master hearings, the tactic involves rescheduling large numbers of immigration court cases from hearings months into the future to dates in just a matter of days or weeks. A single judge could have more than 100 cases on a given morning or afternoon during a mega master docket. Attorneys around the country have said that many people do not get notice of the hearing date changes in time, and judges then order deported most, if not all, of the people who don’t show up for court.

Community Activism Forced Plans For ICE Warehouses To Be Abandoned

July 14, 2026 Brian Dolinar, Truthout. , , ,
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.

Bozeman Rallies Against ICE As They Invade Gallatin Valley

July 12, 2026 Daisy Baertschi, Fight Back! News. , , ,
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.

Miami Artists Use World Cup To Protest Immigration Enforcement

July 12, 2026 Alexandra Martinez, Next City. , , ,
As FIFA World Cup matches draw fans from around the globe to South Florida, local artists are using the tournament’s international spotlight to raise concerns about immigration detention in the state. The community arts collective Artists for Artists: MIA (A4A: MIA) joined the national “No ICE in the Cup” (NIITC) campaign, calling attention to the impact of immigration enforcement in World Cup host cities, including Miami. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a promotional video ahead of the games that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers “will be out there everyday.”

Houston Father Killed By ICE Amid Surge In Arrests

July 10, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, Breakthrough News. , , , ,
On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican construction worker and father, was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Houston, Texas, during a vehicle stop as he was on his way to work. “My father was a simple man. A family man. A man of routine,” said Ronaldo Salgado, oldest son of Salgado Araujo, during an emotional press conference in response to the incident. Ronaldo detailed how he scrambled for information the morning of the incident. He drove an hour away to his father’s work site to find neither he nor his workers there.

While Trump Spends Big On America’s 250th, Communities Protest Across Major Cities

July 8, 2026 International League of People's Struggles, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Over 80 organizations protested the 4th of July across 9 major cities as part of a National Week of Action called for by the International League of Peoples' Struggle - US (ILPS-US) to highlight 250 years of resistance to U.S. empire. While the Trump administration has spent over $68 million in taxpayer money on "America 250" and "Freedom 250" celebrations, communities took action to share the real history of the U.S.' violence against the people and the active legacy of communities fighting for justice and freedom.

Hundreds Protest ICE In Milwaukee

July 5, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , ,
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.

March Against Turning Point USA’s ‘Make Heaven Crowded’ Event

July 2, 2026 Ethan Connelly and Mindy Nielsen, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Billings. MT – On Friday, June 26, around 30 community members rallied outside of Billings’ Emmanuel Baptist Church to protest the far-right organization Turning Point USA's “Make Heaven Crowded” event. Protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside of the church parking lot, holding signs and chanting against TPUSA's reactionary rhetoric being spread to their community. The protest was organized by the Billings Alliance for Immigrant Rights (BAIR), and supported by Billings Visibility Brigade, Montana State University Students for Democratic Society (SDS), and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).

One Year On, Los Angeles Is Still Living With Fallout Of The Raids

June 27, 2026 Elizabeth Aguilera and Ben Poston, Scheer Post. , , ,
When immigration agents arrived at the Los Angeles car wash where he worked, Giovanni didn’t see them until one was standing beside him. Giovanni’s thoughts turned to his family: How would they get by without him? Would he have to uproot his school-age children from the only home they had ever known? Giovanni had worked at the car wash in the San Fernando Valley for years, vacuuming interiors and scrubbing cars. Then, on that day in October, he was taken away by federal immigration agents along with three other workers.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Terminate TPS For Haitians And Syrians

June 27, 2026 David Sobelsohn, People's World. , , , ,
Born and raised in Haiti, Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot works in a California laboratory, researching Alzheimer’s disease. Miot has lived legally in the United States for 15 years. Laila Doe, a Syrian citizen, lives in Illinois, where she works as a behavioral technician for individuals with disabilities and cares for her elderly American-citizen mother and her teenage daughter. Doe has lived here legally for 13 years. Donald Trump wants to deport them—Miot to Haiti, Doe and her daughter to Syria. Miot has diabetes. Doe’s daughter knows little Arabic.

ICE Says 51 People Died In Custody Under Trump

June 24, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , ,
Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian national, was found dead on June 4, 2026, in federal immigration custody. Though his name did not appear in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) online death records by the time this article was published, Artmeladze was reported as the 50th person to die in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to office. One of two recent deaths at a notorious immigration prison in Louisiana, Artmeladze’s death is one of the latest signs that the president’s mass deportation campaign has predictably created a human rights crisis inside a sprawling system of immigration jails and camps.

Three-Day March For Immigrant Rights Ends At Planned ICE Detention Site

June 24, 2026 Lin An, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Dublin, CA – On June 8, at around 5 p.m., over 100 participants of the three-day “Caminata for Immigrant Rights” arrived at the corner of Arnold Road and Gleason Drive, next to FCI Dublin, a closed federal women’s prison that ICE plans to reopen as an immigrant detention center. “This action shows just how united the Bay Area is against ICE. Across all three days, covering dozens of miles, we received only honks of support and cheers from folks. No one wants Trump’s ICE thugs here. Those who joined us, including families with young children, grandmothers, immigrants and allies from Santa Rosa to Napa to San Francisco and beyond, demonstrate how far people are willing to go to oppose new detention centers in the Bay,” said Danny Celaya from CSO Oakland.

Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz

June 23, 2026 Thomas Kennedy, Truthout. , , , , ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this statement: “As we enter hurricane season, ICE and the state of Florida have moved illegal aliens from the soft-sided facility. For the safety of the illegal alien detainees, we transferred them to other facilities.”

ICE Breaks Up Newark Hunger Strike By Shipping Strikers Out

June 17, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
The people locked inside Delaney Hall stopped eating, and they stopped working. ICE answered with tear gas, beatings and night transfers — a fleet of vans moving in the dark so no one outside could see. It did not work. As the strike entered its fourth week, nearly 40 women held in Unit 1 of the Newark immigration jail announced on June 11 that they were joining — issuing their own demands and reopening a fight the government had spent the previous week trying to disperse across the country. The strike began May 22, when more than 300 people detained at Delaney Hall signed an open letter and launched a combined hunger and labor strike.
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