Signs at a protest in Minneapolis on January 23, 2026 -- Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Carmen Navas Reyes From the raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at U.S. airports to the approval of the controversial Return Regulation in the European Union, the world is witnessing an ‘ ICE-ization ‘ of migration policies. This ‘ICE-ization’ is characterized by the externalization of borders, prolonged detention, and the criminalization of undocumente

ICE Raid, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 14, 2025 -- public domain image By Carmen Navas Reyes Desde las redadas del Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) en los aeropuertos estadounidenses, hasta la aprobación del polémico Reglamento de Retorno en la Unión Europea, el mundo asiste a una “ ICE-ización ” de las políticas migratorias. La lCE-ización está caracterizada por la externalización de fronteras, la detención prolong

Even communities that supported President Trump are pushing back on cruel plans to detain immigrants in warehouses. Placard at an Anti-ICE Protest Jan 30 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Farrah Hassen Warehouses are for storing goods. ICE wants to use them to store people. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramps up arrests, the Trump administration is seeking to spend $38 billion to expand its detention capacity to

New official data show an unprecedented expansion of the immigrant detention system and electronic monitoring. Ice agents in Minneapolis after the murder of Renee Good -- Chad Davis, [1], CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nicolas Baintrub, Enlace Latino NC The U.S. immigrant detention system has reached a new historic high. On Jan. 24, 2026, 70,766 people were being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 225 immigrant detention centers across the country

“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies. Image via video screenshot By Jeff Bryant Chicago schoolteacher Claudia Morales may have been reflecting the feelings of most Americans about life under the Trump presidential administration when she told Our Schools, “Every day, there’s yet another abuse. It’s scary. And it’s coming from our own government.” In her work as a bilingual program teacher and bilingu

Portraits of Chavez, Bolivar and Maduro in Venezuela -- Guaiquerí, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Celina della Croce U.S. President Donald Trump has not shied away from admitting his thirst for Venezuelan oil. On 16 December 2025, in the leadup to the 3 January bombing of Caracas and kidnapping of the country’s president and first lady, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, he claimed ownership over Venezuela resources, stating that “America will not… allow a hostile regime to tak

ICE violence and arbitrariness in US cities are symptoms of the fascistisation and militarisation of the declining Western empire. Protest against inhumane raids by ICE fascists is brutally punished, Minneapolis, January 13, 2026 -- image via junge Welt By Susann Witt-Stahl, junge Welt, January 29, 2026. Translation and notes by Helmut-Harry Loewen. The images of the immigration authority ICE's brutal street operations have already been burned into the collective memory of Am

We don’t need better training for the men who killed these activists. We need a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct US democracy. Memorial at the site of Alex Pretti's death -- Darth Stabro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By William J. Barber II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove From 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: “A man was lynched yesterday.” In the South, where Jim Crow

Green Bay residents protest the shooting of Alex Pretti | Photo by Andrew Kennard/Wisconsin Examiner By Andrew Kennard, Wisconsin Examiner Green Bay protesters took to the streets Sunday afternoon in temperatures well below freezing to protest the killing of Alex Pretti , a graduate of Green Bay Preble High School who worked as an ICU nurse at a VA hospital in Minneapolis and was shot and killed Saturday by Border Patrol agents. As they crossed the Fox River, marchers formed

A woman kneels and prays as hundreds gather around a growing memorial site at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, where federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Alex Pretti Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026 earlier in the day. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) By Alyssa Chen, Minnesota Reformer More than 1,000 people gathered for a vigil and rally Saturday night at Whittier Park in Minneapolis to mourn Alex Pretti, the man who was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents . Afte

ICE is murdering citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants first. How many more need to die before ICE is held accountable? Sign at a NYC rally in the wake of the murder of Renee Good -- SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Farrah Hassen On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agen

The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care. Image via X By Jordan Liz, Common Dreams On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Immediately, the Trump administration sprang into action to propagandize the incident. Homeland Security spokesperson Tr

Deaths in ICE facilities have reached their highest point in decades as the agency continues to abuse detainees and resist oversight. Adelanto immigration detention center -- image via news video screenshot By Farrah Hassen Gabriel Garcia-Aviles was a 56-year-old grandfather with a work permit who’d been living in the U.S. for over 30 years. He was a beloved member of his Southern California community. This fall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Garci

Trump claimed immigrants were “taking your jobs.” But during his brutal crackdown, the job market has only gotten worse. Anti-ICE rally in Chicago, October 26, 2025 -- Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By A.J. Schumann Donald Trump rode back into office by leaning on the same faux populist refrain he weaponized a decade ago: immigrants are “ taking your jobs !” Since then, Trump has launched an immigration crackdown of historic proportions. Yet

Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. Screenshot via X By Sonali Kolhatkar A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. Appearing as though she was on her way from work—the woman wore a navy blue blazer and brown shoes and carried a large handbag—the “polka-dot dress wo

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