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California Counties Are Directly Funding Immigrant Legal Defense

March 9, 2026 Renee Bartlett-Webber, Next City. , , ,
With the Trump administration escalating immigration enforcement, a number of California municipal and county governments are setting aside public money to help immigrants and rapid response networks build legal defenses. San Francisco and Alameda County are among the latest to designate additional money for immigrants to defend themselves against deportation. In October, when President Donald Trump threatened to increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors beefed up its defense fund by a unanimous vote with $3.5 million. In March, Alameda County doubled the fund it had started with $3.5 million.

From Mogadishu To Minneapolis

March 8, 2026 Elizabeth Schmidt, Africa is a Country. , , ,
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of some 80,000 people of Somali heritage, has been headline news in recent weeks—especially since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killing of two American citizens—both white—who witnessed ICE brutality. The presence of so many Somalis in Minneapolis and the special antipathy the Trump administration has for them has roots that go far deeper than the president’s hostility toward Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of his most forceful and outspoken critics.

International Women’s Day 2026: Stand With Immigrant Women! No Ice!

March 6, 2026 Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Fight Back! News. , , ,
International Women’s Day is a day of struggle, and it is a day to resist Trump’s cruel campaign of abductions and deportations. In Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, and so many other cities and towns, history is being made. This year’s International Women’s Day will be one to part of the heroic, historic and powerful resistance that is unfolding to Trump’s agenda. In the streets and in meeting halls, we will let it be known that we stand with undocumented women. children and families. ICE terror needs to be stopped. Now.

Students Convene For Conference, Demand Every MI School Be A Sanctuary

March 2, 2026 Owen Frassetto, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Michigan chapters of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) came together in Detroit at Wayne State University on Saturday, February 28, for their first statewide organizing conference. The one-day conference featured panels and workshops, mostly revolving around their Sanctuary Campus campaigns, which demand university administrators never collaborate with federal immigration enforcement, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in particular. “As we’re seeing the level of attacks by ICE rise in Michigan, with the repeated kidnapping of high school and college students, we in the student movement saw the need to raise our level of organization to fight back.

ICE Targets Virginia And The People Respond

February 26, 2026 The Virginia Defender, Popular Resistance. , , ,
It looks like ICE, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, has targeted Virginia for a Minnesota-style operation. That makes sense, since with a Democratic governor, a majority-”minority” capital city and a Richmond mayor who is not only a Democrat but also an immigrant, we fit the profile of states Trump has in his sights. It’s not like ICE hasn’t already been here. Arrests and deportations took place under Presidents Obama and Biden. But there’s been a sharp upsurge - more than 6,600 people - arrested by ICE in Virginia since Trump took office again in 2025. That puts us in sixth place for states targeted by ICE.

Mass Detention Facility Expansion In The US And The Fight Back

February 23, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , ,
While there has been an ongoing expansion of immigrant detention centers in the United States for nearly two decades, the government recently allocated $38.3 billion to put that on hyperdrive in order to add the capacity to detain 92,000 more people. The government is purchasing warehouses in communities across the US and even considering using military bases. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist Sam Carliner about the expansion, who is being detained, the appalling conditions in these prisons, who is profiting and how communities are organizing to stop what are essentially concentration camps.

Action Alert: Stop And Defund ICE, Restore Benefits For Immigrants!

February 22, 2026 A Coalition, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
As mothers and other caregivers, we are furious and deeply upset at the reign of terror being imposed on immigrants, our families and those standing with us. We are outraged at ICE’s cruel and brutal separations of children from their mothers and fathers. We have seen this tactic of breaking up families used in Black, Native American and other poor communities by the child “welfare” system which tears families apart. African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and other communities of color are being criminalized and our children traumatized.

Trauma Of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools

February 14, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. , , , , ,
In several Minnesota communities, public school teachers and community volunteers are now riding school buses with their students to ensure that at each afternoon drop-off, the adults who were expected to be waiting at home for their child’s arrival have not been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids during the school day. “The president’s decision to send thousands of masked, heavily armed agents into our communities has forced educators to adapt in many ways,” Monica Byron, the president of Education Minnesota, told Truthout via email.

ICE Is Expanding Across The US At Breakneck Speed

February 13, 2026 Leah Feiger, Portside. , , ,
Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. In many cases, these facilities, which are to be used by street-level agents and ICE attorneys, are located near elementary schools, medical offices, places of worship, and other sensitive locations. In El Paso, Texas, for example, the agency is moving into a large campus of buildings right off of Interstate 10 near multiple local health providers and other businesses.

The Children Of Dilley, Texas Detention Center

February 12, 2026 Mica Rosenberg, Pro Publica. , , , ,
Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed to get inside to meet her. The staff brought everyone in the visiting room a boxed lunch from the cafeteria: a cup of yellowish stew and a hamburger patty in a plain bun. Ariana’s long black curls hung loosely around her face and she was wearing a government-issued gray sweatsuit. At first, she sat looking blankly down at the table. She poked at her food with a plastic fork and let her mother do most of the talking.

Protesters Rally At Mayor’s Home; Demand Revocation Of ICE permit

February 12, 2026 Holly Brown, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Portland, OR – Over 100 protesters rallied in front of Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s home on Saturday February 7, to demand he take immediate action to shut down the Portland ICE Facility. The protest was called by the immigrant rights organization, Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD). “Federal agents are terrorizing Portland. Whether it is immigrants living under the threat of deportation by ICE or residents of the South Waterfront neighborhood subject to constant chemical warfare from DHS attacks, there are so many who don’t feel safe in their own homes.

The Fight To Keep ICE From Reopening A Notorious Prison

February 11, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
On March 1, 2025, Kendra Drysdale stood before a crowd of about 500 people at a street protest to rally the Dublin, California community against the potential reopening of a local federal prison as an immigrant detention center. She warned them of the harm and trauma that the reopening could cause — which she knew firsthand, because she and many incarcerated women she knew had been sexually assaulted at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, or FCI Dublin, when it was a women’s prison.  Before it closed in April 2024, the federal prison was known as the “rape club” for rampant sexual assault and retaliation against incarcerated women who spoke out.

Rally Outside Minnesota Governor’s Mansion: ‘No Selling Out For ICE!’

February 9, 2026 Livian Roth and Yann Chen, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
St. Paul, MN – On the evening of February 6, hundreds of protesters gathered outside of Governor Tim Walz’s mansion. The event, organized by The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), was held to demand that elected office holders do not sell out for ICE. The rally responded to the announcement from “Border Czar” Tom Homan that 700 of the 3000 federal agents currently occupying Minnesota would be leaving. A decision that came after private meetings that included Governor Tim Walz. Homan stated that this decision was made due to the “unprecedented” level of cooperation between counties and federal law enforcement.

Haitians In The US Mobilize Against ICE And Deportation Threats

February 7, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300,000 Haitian immigrants in the US, following intense pressure from over 300 labor unions, faith groups, and rights advocates. The victory however, has done nothing to quell the outrage at the government’s efforts to terminate the protections. Community groups say tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants are especially vulnerable as ICE forces are set to deploy to Haitian hubs in the state of Ohio, Springfield and Columbus, according to a leaked White House memo.

Indiana Ramming ICE Collaboration Bill Through Legislature

February 6, 2026 Reed Stoerck, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Indianapolis, IN – Indiana state legislators listened to five hours of testimony Monday, February 2 concerning Senate Bill 76, a draconian law that will legally compel public and private entities in Indiana to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in their campaign of terror. The supporters of this bill were outnumbered four to one by opponents, a telling indication of how few actually support Trump’s crackdown. The bill succeeded in getting out of committee on a 9 to 4 vote. The bill, authored by State Senator Liz Brown of Fort Wayne, revives core portions of an immigration bill she previously refused to hear last year as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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