Santa Ana, CA – On Saturday, February 7, Santa Ana residents gathered to honor the one-month anniversary of the murder of Renee Good by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathon Ross. The demonstration highlighted other victims murdered by ICE including Keith Porter, Alex Pretti, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

The crowd gathered on the corner of Bristol and 1st, a busy intersection. They marched across the intersection chanting, “Killer ICE off our streets!” and “Migra fuera de Santa Ana!”

Cars and pedestrians passing by the spirited crowd honked and chanted in support. Santa Ana has been hit with heavy ICE raids since the summer of 2025. Since then, the residents of Santa Ana have been protesting ICE, doing barrio walks to inform the community of their rights, and ICE watching.

The demonstration was put on by Community Service Organization Orange County in response to a call to action by the Legalization for All Network.

#SantaAnaCA #CA #ImmigrantRights #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #L4A #CSOOC

Franklin Park, IL – Community members came together, February 7, in a powerful action to honor the lives stolen by the racist terror of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Over 25 people gathered at Casa DuPage Workers Center in Wheaton, for the collective construction and decoration of three altars for the martyrs Silverio Villegas González, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.

The event was organized by Casa DuPage Workers Center, with support from ALMAS – Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs, and Latin Chamber of Commerce of DuPage. They acted in response to the national call for demonstrations issued by the Legalization for All Network, marking one month since the murder of Renee Good at the hands of ICE and demanding justice for all those murdered by ICE.

Participants created paper flowers, papel picado (colorful paper with designs cut into it), paintings to keep the martyrs’ memories alive, and symbolism and slogans to represent them and their involvement in the struggle.

The partner of Villegas Gonzalez, Blanca Mora, also attended the event. Through tears, she thanked the assembled participants for their support while her family continues to grieve. Blanca put on Silverio’s favorite music while the altars were constructed.

Later, the crowd moved to Franklin Park, to the location where González was murdered by ICE, for a candlelight vigil. The air was filled with the chants of the mass movement: “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” “Silverio vive, la lucha sigue!” “ICE mata!” and of course “Chinga la migra!” The demand was clear and unified: ICE out, end raids and deportations, and send the murderous agents to prison.

“Silverio, Renee, and Alex are alive compañeros! They are alive in our struggle for justice! They remind us to fight and keep fighting until their murderers are in jail!” declared Cristobal Cavazos, executive director of Casa DuPage Workers Center. Cavazos connected the mass struggle now being waged to the cultural traditions of the Day of the Dead, stating “We the living have not forgotten Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, Renee Nicole Good, or Alex Jeffrey Pretti, we remember them, and we carry on their struggle, and in this way, they are resurrected.”

The event demonstrated that collective grief and healing foster a commitment to fight back. As the crowd dispersed, a group photo was taken and participants vowed to work together to cultivate a culture of resistance.

#FranklinParkIL #IL #ImmigrantRights #InJusticeSystem #ReneeGood #AlexPretti

New Orleans, LA — On February 7, one month after the murder of Renée Nicole Good by ICE, the New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and the No Trump No Troops Coalition mobilized for a rally at Armstrong Park to continue to stand up against ICE and CBP’s reign of terror.

The rally was called in response to the Legalization for All Network’s Day of Action, demanding justice for all killed by ICE and prosecution of killer cops like Johnathan Ross. The rally also uplifted the demand of legalization for all immigrants.

A crowd of about 40 people rallied around as chants for “No more deportations!” and “¡Chinga la migra!” rang through the park. Consistent protests and noise demonstrations are appearing to be effective – on January 26, Gregory Bovino, the so-called “Commander-at-Large” of the United States Border Patrol was relieved of his Minnesota command by President Trump.

Chris Maldonado of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) spoke out about Bovino’s demotion, exclaiming, “People like Bovino shouldn’t just be allowed to step down; they should be thrown under the jail!”

The Trump administration has wielded ICE terror as a means to silence dissent and instill fear under the guise of law and order. Maldonado continued, “This violence and terror is fundamental to how the billionaire ruling class maintains its order and grows its profits.”

Palestine solidarity activist Sruly Heller of New Orleans Stop Helping Israel’s Ports (NOSHIP) said, “The only law and order that exists in America is the reality of what happens between you and a police officer.”

“We uplift legalization for all as a demand of our movement because no one should be criminalized for migration. Many of our immigrant brothers and sisters from Latin America and elsewhere are fleeing the consequences of U.S. imperialism: sanctions, unlivable wages and super exploitation, or otherwise. All people deserve to live with dignity and respect regardless of their citizenship or ability to work,” said Toni Mar, another member of FRSO.

These rallies show that despite the Trump administration and the ruling class’s efforts to instill fear, people continue to show up and organize.

#NewOrleansLA #LA #ImmigrantRights #ICE #ReneeGood #FRSO #L4A #NOAARPR #NAARPR

Chicago, IL— Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Chicago’s freezing wind on Saturday, February 7 to honor one month since the murder of Renee Good at the hands of ICE and to demand justice for those killed by ICE. The protest was called by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda in response to a national call for action from the Legalization for All Network.

In Chicago, the demand for justice and accountability is targeted at Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke, who has consistently stood on the side of corrupt and violent police officers and against the people’s movements.

A week ago, prompted by the growing public demand for ICE accountability, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order directing the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to watch for illegal activity by ICE agents and report felony charges to the State’s Attorney at the mayor’s direction. Burke opposed the order in an internal memo to her staff, calling it “inappropriate,” and claiming it would interfere with her office’s ability to prosecute federal agents.

Nick Sous, an organizer with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), called out Burke’s hypocrisy in his remarks at the protest, “The only thing in the way of Eileen Burke prosecuting killer cops or ICE agents is Eileen Burke.”

In her first week in office in December 2024, Burke dropped the charges against Oak Lawn Police officer Patrick O’Donnell, who had helped beat Arab youth Hadi Abuatelah within inches of his life, along with two other officers in 2022.

Johnnie Showers, a member of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and wife of wrongful conviction survivor Devon Showers, also spoke at the protest. Showers has seen the corruption of CPD and the state’s attorney’s office firsthand in her struggle to free her husband and called for solidarity in the fight to hold both ICE and CPD accountable.

Showers said that ICE and CPD are “working together against us, the working class, the ones that pay their bills,” Showers said. “They are kidnapping us and killing us in the jails. So we need to stand in solidarity and make sure we stop them. We need to fight back.”

Marien Casillas Pebellón, executive director of the West Suburban Action Project (PASO), addressed the crowd and raised the collective demand for accountability for the continued violence on the part of ICE agents and the entire Trump administration against our communities.

“We want ICE out of everywhere,” Pebellón said. “We want those in charge prosecuted. They accuse us of being criminals. The criminals are in the White House right now”

Angel Naranjos, a leader in the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, closed the rally with spirited remarks, “If the past few weeks have taught us anything, it’s that things must change and they must change fast.”

Naranjos continued, “Donald Trump and his corporate media love to say that we are domestic terrorists when we confront ICE—that we should protest peacefully. But we say it is right to rebel.”

After the program, the protesters took to the streets and marched north to Trump Tower, chanting a message for Trump and all his criminal ICE agents, “Lock them up! Lock them up!”

#ChicagoIL #IL #ImmigrantRights #ICE #CAARPR #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #L4A #AAAN

Washington, DC – On Friday, February 6, DC organizations joined the call from the Legalization for All network for a National Day of Action in solidarity with the ongoing struggle against ICE terror in Minneapolis and across the country.

Around 50 community members, organizers and activists were out in the street demanding “ICE out!” “Justice for all victims of ICE terror!” and “Legalization for all!” with temperatures well below freezing. Protesters faced down federal and local police. The people were not deterred and protested right up to the barricades of ICE headquarters.

The National Day of Action fell one month after the cold-blooded murder of community observer Renee Good. The DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR), alongside Families Not Feds (FNF), Movimiento Migrante DC, Youth Demand Action, 50501DC, Freedom Road Socialist Organization – DC, and DC Against the Trump Agenda Coalition, hosted the action outside ICE headquarters in Southwest DC.

A member of DCAARPR told the crowd, “This is an ICE Out rally; we want to, and need to kick ICE out of our city, but we also need to keep ICE out. Just a few minutes from here, there is a plan to build another ICE headquarters. It is no coincidence that this is happening in Southeast, a historically Black and brown section of the city.”

He also discussed the case of Phillip Brown, a Black man, who was shot at by a Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) officer, and barely escaped with his life. There is concrete evidence that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) covered up for HIS.

A member of Anakbayan DC stated, “Renee Good is another victim of a corrupt, unjust system that treats human beings as disposable. It is a system that has been upheld by both parties and several administrations with our taxpayer dollars. Her murder is a reminder that the government does not care about us.”

Many of the participating organizations have been on the ground in DC leading mass mobilizations against ICE and, more broadly, the racist and reactionary Trump.

The protest finished with a speech by Cameron McLaren, an organizer with Freedom Road Socialist Organization – DC., who stated, “We are fighting for a system where no human is illegal, and that starts with legalizing everyone. Legalization for all! We have a collective duty in this moment to stand together, to unite all who can be united, and to fight for a future that belongs to all of us.”

#WashingtonDC #DC #ImmigrantRights #ICE #L4A #ReneeGood #KillerICE #DCAARPR #FNF #MMDC #YDA #FRSO

Noticiero ¡Lucha y Resiste! está circulando la siguiente convocatoria de la Red de Legalización para Todos (L4A).

Un mes después del asesinato de Renee Good a manos de ICE: Día de acción nacional en solidaridad con Minneapolis, 7 de febrero

¡FUERA ICE!

¡Alto a las deportaciones!

¡Justicia para Alex Pretti, Renee Good y todas las víctimas del terror de ICE!

¡Legalización para todos!

La Red de Legalización para Todos (L4A) hace un llamado a todas las ciudades afiliadas para actuar AHORA. La observadora comunitaria, Renee Good, fue asesinada por ICE el 7 de enero. Por eso la L4A convoca por un día de acción nacional en el aniversario del primer mes.

Mientras ICE continúa con su terror — allanando, asesinando y desapareciendo a inmigrantes indocumentados y también a ciudadanos estadounidenses, debemos levantarnos y luchar. Juntos protegeremos a nuestras familias mexicanas, centroamericanas y somalíes. Así como a cualquier persona bajo ataque de ICE.

El 14 de enero, inmigrante nicaragüense Victor Manuel Díaz (detenido en Texas) y inmigrante mexicano Heber Sanchaz Domínguez (detenido en Georgia) murieron bajo custodia de ICE en circunstancias muy sospechosas. En el último mes un total de seis inmigrantes indocumentados han muerto a manos de ICE.

Minnesota nos enseñó que cuando nos unimos y luchamos, podemos sacar a ICE y a las autoridades locales de nuestros barrios. Hasta a Greg Bovino de la Patrulla Fronteriza lo mandaron empacar.

Únete a nosotros para exigir ¡FUERA ICE! ¡Alto a las deportaciones!

¡Justicia para Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter y todas las víctimas del terror de ICE! ¡Legalización para todos!

#ImmigrantRights #DerechosDeLosInmigrantes #L4A #ReneeGood #ICE #KillerICE

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call from the Legalization for All (L4A) Network.

One month after ICE killing of Renee Good: National Day of Action in solidarity with Minneapolis February 7

ICE OUT!

Stop deportations!

Justice for Alex Pretti, Renee Good and all victims of ICE terror!

Legalization for all!

The Legalization for All (L4A) Network is calling on all affiliated cities to act NOW. Community observer Renee Good was killed by ICE on January 7th. This is why L4A is calling for a national day of action on the one month anniversary.

As ICE continues their terror — raiding, killing, and disappearing undocumented immigrants and also U.S. citizens, we must stand up and fight back. Together we will protect our Mexicano, Centroamericano, Somali families. As well as anyone under attack by ICE.

On January 14th, Nicaraguan immigrant Victor Manuel Díaz (detained in Texas) and Mexican immigrant Heber Sanchaz Domínguez (detained in Georgia) died under ICE custody and under very suspicious circumstances. In the last month a total of six undocumented immigrants have died at the hands of ICE.

Minnesota taught us all that when we unite and fight back, we can kick ICE and local authorities out of our barrios. Even Border Patrol’s Greg Bovino was sent packing.

Join us in demanding ICE OUT! Stop deportations!

Justice for Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, and all victims of ICE terror! Legalization for all!

#ImmigrantRights #L4A #ICE #KillerICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #KeithPorter #Feature

New York, NY – The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) led a Midtown Manhattan rally and march of thousands through the bitter cold in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis, January 23. Many major local labor unions endorsed and attended the action, as well as many other progressive organizations.

The murder of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent sparked a chain of events that included the raiding of a school by ICE, the subsequent closing of local schools, and the unequivocal condemnation of Trump’s attacks on immigrants by many Minneapolis unions, including the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE).

Due to rank-and-file pressure, the UFT also condemned the attacks, and planned a rally and march for January 23, the same day that many unions and other organizations in Minneapolis planned to disrupt business as usual by refusing to work, shop, or go to school.

UFT members wore black to work that day, and many schools and other groups developed contingents to attend the rally together, and took time out of the workday to make signs and take pictures together showing their solidarity with Minneapolis.

The MORE Caucus (Movement of Rank and File Educators), the main progressive reform caucus within the UFT, also organized a contingent, largely made up of members who do immigrant rights work and Palestine solidarity work within the schools and within their union.

Militant teacher unionists marched and chanted “Money for jobs and education, not for war and deportation!” and “La migra, la policía, la misma porquería!”

The actions of teachers and students ranged far and wide throughout the boroughs of NYC. NYU students led by NYU Students for a Democratic Society led a walk out in solidarity.

In Brooklyn, MORE Caucus teachers in collaboration with parents of immigrant students organized a multi-school “Children’s March”, which was attended by elementary school students, teachers and the parent communities of schools in the Flatbush/Kensington area. Featured at the action were anti-ICE opinion statements written by impacted students and parents, and speeches from teachers who connected the fight against ICE with the labor movement.

Beth McCune, one of the organizers of the Children’s March and a member of the MORE Caucus said, “Seeing this neighborhood action come together so successfully on such short notice was powerful because it shows us that educators, parents and our surrounding community are united in our desire to keep immigrants safe. We must continue to work together to hold the DOE and our city accountable with tangible measures that make it possible for families and children to attend school without fear.”

#NewYorkNY #NY #Labor #Teachers #ImmigrantRights #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #MORE

Portland, OR – On January 24, immigrant rights organization Portland Contra Las Deportaciones held an emergency rally to protest the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Despite only a few hours’ notice, over 500 participants joined the rally, beginning at Elizabeth Caruthers Park and marching to the Portland ICE facility.

Speeches demanded justice for Alex Pretti and Renee Good, also murdered by ICE. They also demanded the city of Portland take immediate action to revoke the permit for the Portland ICE facility.

When at the Portland ICE facility, protesters occupied the driveway, banging on the doors and boarded-up windows. An industrial trashcan and other objects were pushed against the gate to the building. Protesters chanted, “You are murderers!” at the agents behind the gate.

In response, federal agents deployed chemical weapons on the protesters, such as HC gas, known for its serious health impacts.

The ICE facility is in a residential neighborhood, with an affordable housing complex directly across the street, that has been subject to chemicals like these for months, another reason why PDXCD demands the ICE facility is shut down.

Despite the chemical attacks, protesters maintained the driveway and did not back down. More and more people continued to show up as the night went on.

#PortlandOR #OR #ImmigrantRights #ICE #KillerICE #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #PDXCD

Chicago, IL – on Friday morning, January 23, nearly 100 people packed into Casa Michoacan for a press conference and rally. In solidarity with the broad coalition shutting down the Twin Cities that same day, speakers demanded the conviction of Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good, ICE out of Minnesota, and no more federal funding for ICE.

Speakers connected the crimes of ICE in Minnesota with the terror they have inflicted across the country, specifically mentioning the murders of Keith Porter Jr in Los Angeles and Silverio Villegas Gonzalez in Franklin Park, IL.

“It’s about time that we recognize in our neighbors faces that we are part of one body of one nation. And if one of us is missing, then all of us are missing,” declared Marién Casillas-Pabellón, executive director of the West Suburban Action Project (PASO).

“Minnesota, we stand with you. We have cried with you, and we will not let the tears be the end of it. Because we have power.” Casillas-Pabellón added.

Like the actions in Minnesota, the press conference represented a wide coalition of organizations that fight for working and oppressed people. Representatives shared actions they would be taking to bring the demands to local elected officials and branches of corporations.

“Outrage alone does not change conditions. Organizing does,” said Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1.

Kobi Guillory, a middle school science teacher and executive board member of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), spoke about actions CTU, SEIU, and other organizations would be taking against Target that afternoon.

“Our siblings in the Minneapolis Federation of Educators are protesting Target for their complicity with ICE abductions in their stores. We will be out at ten different Targets around the city today,” Guillory explained. Target in particular is under fire after two Target employees were kidnapped from a Target store in Minnesota while the corporation refused to protect them.

“There’s power in this room and there’s power in the streets. We won’t stand idly by as they separate families,” affirmed Veronica Castro, Deputy Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Castro and other speakers encouraged listeners to take action by joining organizations in preparation for further ICE escalation.

“If CBP tries to come in thousands then our response has to be just as organized, just as widespread, and just as ready,” said Any Huamani, immigration defense coordinator with Brighton Park Neighborhood Council.

Organizers affirmed their commitment to fight to abolish ICE, defeat the Trump agenda, and create a better world.

“We won’t let Trump take us back to 1850, nor will we go back to 2015. We will keep fighting until our children have the safe, just, fully funded communities they deserve,” Guillory proclaimed.

#ChicagoIL #IL #ImmigrantRights #Labor #CTU #SEIU #ICIRR #PASO #ReneeGood #AlexPretti

Minneapolis, MN – ICE has committed its second open murder of 2026 in the Twin Cities, with the fatal shooting of a legal observer on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis on the morning of January 24. The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), quickly had members on the scene to document and began planning a vigil for the fallen community member.

The shooting was witnessed and documented by several bystanders, some of whom were then detained by ICE. In a widely circulated video from one bystander, five to six ICE agents can be seen swarming, tackling and pistol-whipping a community member. As the civilian kneels, surrounded by agents, one agent shoots him. The agents then begin to back up, and at least one of them shoots the community member several more times as he lies motionless on the ground.

Local authorities have since confirmed that the victim is dead. The Star Tribune has identified him as 37-year-old Alex Jeffery Pretti of Minneapolis.

This killing comes after the January 7 murder of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, who an ICE agent shot multiple times after she stopped her car to document agents’ activities in her South Minneapolis neighborhood. The next week, ICE agents nonfatally shot a Minneapolis resident in North Minneapolis.

At all three incidents, and throughout the surge of ICE brutality that has terrorized Twin Cities communities, local law enforcement, including Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, have responded to ICE violence by acting as a security force for the perpetrators, pointing their boots towards Minneapolis residents while federal agents leave the scenes of their crimes without consequence.

No arrest has been made or charges brought against Jonathan Ross, Good’s killer, nor against the agent who committed the shooting the following week, nor the agents whose tear gas nearly killed a six-month-old, nor the agents who recently kidnapped a five-year-old and a two-year-old, nor any of the agents who have racially profiled, stalked, assaulted, battered and unlawfully detained people of color and their neighbors over the past months.

Since the murder of Alex Pretti on January 24, thousands of protesters continue to mobilize near the site, chanting “ICE out” and “The people united will never be defeated!”

MIRAC called for a rally the evening of January 24 to bring people together after the latest ICE murder. Speeches emphasized the need for immediate action to remove ICE, without the National Guard interfering with protests.

Charlie Berg, an organizer in the Climate Justice Committee and a Freedom Road Socialist Organization member, said to the crowd, “Alex Pretti was executed in broad daylight by these occupier pigs.” Addressing politicians controlled by billionaires, he added “The only way this ends is with ICE to getting the fuck out of our city. You've been warned.”

“We are on a precipice,” says MIRAC member Owen Lubozynski. “The agents of an authoritarian regime are terrorizing and disappearing our neighbors, brutalizing observers, injuring journalists and killing with impunity. Any leader who is against this must do everything in their power to impede our country’s plunge into dictatorship while they still can.”

City and state officials responded to the righteous anger of community members by calling out the National Guard. But Minnesotans have not been deterred or scared away from gathering at the site of Pretti’s murder.

“It is us, even when we are scared, when our hearts are heavy, full of emotion, that we work to fight for what is right. While they teargas us and shoot at us, it is our community members that come to our aid. Do not forget that. Our community has shown resilience, has shown love and generosity in the face of danger. It is us that keeps us safe!” said Esper Garcia from MIRAC.

#MinneapolisMN #MN #ImmigrantRights #ICE #KillerICE #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #MIRAC #Feature

Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, January 23, at 2 p.m., it was -11 degrees F with -40 windchill when over 50,000 Minnesotans bundled up in layers and scarves braved the extreme cold. They gathered in a park near US Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis to demand that ICE leave the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota.

By 1 p.m. the park was already beginning to fill up with people arriving early to avoid clogged traffic and backed-up light rail trains coming into the area, getting crowded with Minnesotans coming to the march. By 2 p.m., there was no way to see the edges of the protest from inside the crowd, even when standing on benches to get a better view, as it stretched many blocks in all directions and around corners, flooding a large section of downtown.

From the middle of the crowd there was no way to tell what time the march began moving. However, marchers near the front reported that they were already at the end point of the march 14 blocks away, over an hour before the back half of the march had begun to move. During the march, the 14-block route of wide downtown streets was packed full of sidewalk to sidewalk, as was the park at the beginning and the area surrounding the endpoint.

The march ended at the Target Center, which is the arena where the Minnesota Timberwolves play basketball. A large indoor rally was held in the Target Center, which holds over 20,000 and was sold out of free tickets for the event. First Avenue is a large music venue in Minneapolis, and it also opened as a warming center and to live stream the rally. It was also full. Many more never made it inside at either venue.

Over 1000 Minneapolis businesses had announced they would close as part of the day of action.

The march was the centering of a long day of actions called “ICE Out of Minnesota – Day of Truth and Freedom.” The day was called for by a group of unions working together with immigrant rights organizations and community groups across the Twin Cities.

The day of action began with a 6 a.m. picket at the Como Avenue location of HealthPartners, a large medical system in the Twin Cities, where the workers are members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa and are in bargaining for their next union contract. The HealthPartners workers have authorized an upcoming strike with a 99% vote to strike. The picket on Friday was an informational picket that was part of the coordinated day of action. At the time of the picket, it was -21 degrees real temperature and around -50 degrees windchill and pitch dark, yet the picket was large and boisterous.

Around 10 a.m., 100 clergy and religious leaders were arrested in a sit-in at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport, where thousands of people have been deported and airport workers have been arrested by ICE.

Soon after the action at the airport, members of Minneapolis Federation of Educators, the union in Minneapolis Public Schools, held an action at the Minneapolis City Hall highlighting ICE’s reign of terror on the children, staff and families at Minneapolis schools. Many more actions were held by unions and groups who were part of the day of action, and many workers stayed home from work to participate in the day.

This march and many actions of the day were only the latest of dozens of huge protests and actions in the Twin Cities to resist ICE’s Metro Surge.

Recent weeks have seen ICE terrorizing community members – sometimes with intentional targets and other times seemingly at random – with ICE escalating interactions with the public daily, doing things like smashing car windows and dragging people out of cars, and beating people in the streets.

ICE has also blocked victims of their violence from receiving necessary medical care. The list of atrocities by ICE in the Twin Cities has sharply grown since an ICE agent murdered Renee Good in her car in Minneapolis on January 7.

#MinneapolisMN #MN #ImmigrantRights #ICE #ReneeGood #Feature

Trump está respondiendo a la ola de luchas contra las deportaciones masivas en Minnesota amenazando con invocar la Ley de Insurrección. Si lo hace, será un caso de levantar una piedra solo para dejarla caer sobre sus propios pies.

En diciembre, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional anunció que las Ciudades Gemelas serían el foco de la “Operación Metro Surge,” junto con la declaración de que sería la mayor acción anti-immigrante en la historia de EE.UU.

La respuesta fue protestas masivas y confrontaciones con agentes de ICE sobre el terreno. El 7 de enero, Renee Good fue asesinada por ICE y el resultado fue una tormenta de luchas, incluyendo una marcha de 100,000 personas en Minneapolis y protestas en todo EE.UU.

Luego, el 14 de enero, ICE le disparó a un hombre venezolano en el norte de Minneapolis. Los manifestantes se juntaron en el lugar. ICE huyó, dejando atrás algunos de sus vehículos, que después fueron destruidos.

Así que Trump está amenazando con la Ley de Insurrección para asustar a la gente. No va a funcionar. Cuando Trump envió tropas a Los Ángeles este verano pasado, fue como echar gasolina a un fuego. La lucha contra las deportaciones masivas no se detuvo, sino que se intensificó. Pasó lo mismo en Chicago y Washington, D.C.: Trump amenaza o despliega a tropas, y el pueblo llena las calles. Lo mismo va a pasar si Trump usa la Ley de Insurrección.

Hay gente que dice que la resistencia masiva y militante contra las deportaciones es una provocación que permite a Trump tener más espacio político para emplear la represión. Esto es precisamente falso. La lucha militante es cómo derrotar a ICE y cómo vamos a derrotar toda la agenda de Trump.

No es exageración decir que millones de personas han tomado las calles desde que Trump asumió el cargo. Podemos estar seguros de que millones más se van a unir a nosotros. ¡Vamos a unir a las mayorías y derrotar a los pocos!

¡Alto a las deportaciones masivas!

¡Alto a ICE!

¡Exigimos la legalización para todos!

#ImmigrantRights #FRSO #Statement #DerechosDeLosInmigrantes #OSCL #Declaracion #ICE #Trump #ReneeGood

Colorado Springs, CO – On January 12, students at Coronado High school in Colorado Springs staged a walk out to protest ICE’s murder of Renee Good, who graduated from Coronado High School in 2006.

Students were joined and supported by the Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and many community members, including alumni who had been classmates with Renee Good.

At the start of lunch, students walked out and marched from Coronado High school to the visible, high traffic corner of W Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard, where a group of over 100 held signs with messages like “Rest in power Renee Good” and “The system isn’t broken, it was built this way.” As they marched they chanted “Coronado Cougars are here to stay! We want justice for Renee!” “Say her name, Renee Good!” “From Minnesota to the 719, observing ICE is not a crime!” They garnered support from many passing drivers who honked and waved.

“We are mourning for the loss of Renee Good, she was a fellow alumni of our school, she graduated in 2006, so we’re here to honor her memory and fight back ICE,” said Ricardo Madrigal, a student currently attending Coronado. “I felt angry when I heard that she was from Coronado” said Madrigal, recounting his reaction to finding out who the victim was. He went on to describe other victims, saying “Renee Good started this protest, but there have been other people that have been shot and killed by ICE, for example Keith Porter Jr. was also killed by ICE, really it’s just gotten to a point where we can’t even trust our own government.”

COSAARPR provided support in coordination with the students, providing equipment, signs, hot chocolate, as well as buttons and information about local victims of police crimes and the fight for community control of the police. Community members also made and brought buttons to share. A former classmate spoke about Good and thanked current students for fighting for justice for her.

After hours of chanting at the corner of a busy intersection, students marched back to Coronado High School, where they continued chanting until school got out. It was a powerful day of student-led protest, communal grieving for Renee Good, and calls for justice, accountability and change.

#ColoradoSpringsCO #CO #ImmigrantRights #ReneeGood #HighSchool #COSAARPR

Trump is responding to Minnesota’s wave of struggle against mass deportations by threating to invoke the Insurrection Act. If he does so, it will be a case of lifting a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet.

In December the Department of Homeland Security announced the Twin Cities would be the focus of “Operation Metro Surge,” accompanied by the claim it would be the largest anti-immigrant action in U.S. history.

The response was mass protests and confrontations with ICE agents on the ground. On January 7 Renee Good was murdered by ICE and the result was a storm of struggle, including a 100,000-person march in Minneapolis and demonstrations all over the U.S.

Then on January 14, ICE shot a man from Venezuela in North Minneapolis. Protesters converged on the scene. ICE fled, leaving behind some of their vehicles, which were then destroyed.

So, Trump is threatening the Insurrection Act to scare people. That won’t work. When Trump sent troops to LA this past summer it was like pouring gasoline on a fire. The fight against mass deportations did not stop – it intensified. Same thing in Chicago and Washington DC: Trump threatens or deploys troops, and people still fill the streets. The same thing will happen if Trump uses the Insurrection Act.

There are some people who say that mass, militant resistance to deportations is a provocation that allows additional political space for Trump to employ repression. This is exactly wrong. Militant struggle is how to defeat ICE and how we defeat the entirety of Trump’s agenda.

It is no exaggeration to say that millions of people have taken to the street since Trump took office. We can be certain that millions more will join us. We will unite the many and defeat the few!

Stop mass deportations!

Stop ICE!

We demand legalization for all!

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Chicago, IL – Over 600 community members and organizers gathered at the Little Village Arch in vigil and protest in solidarity with the immigrant rights movement in Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 7. Protesters demanded justice for all victims of ICE, ICE out of everywhere, and legalization for all immigrants living in the U.S. as a part of a national emergency call for action called by the Legalization for All Network in response to the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

As a historically Mexican and Chicano neighborhood, Little Village (La Villita) was one of the hardest hit areas of Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz.

Irma Morales, a community organizer from Mientras Haya Amor, Hay Esperanza, rallied the crowd with a rousing speech. “Hoy estamos aquí, para presionar a los departamentos que están a cargo de proteger y cuidar a los residentes de esta ciudad porque para eso se les está pagandom – para proteger y cuidar a los residentes pagadores de impuestos de la ciudad de Chicago, no para proteger a verdaderos criminales (Today we are here to pressure the departments that are charged with protecting and caring for the residents of this city, because that is what they are paid to do – to protect and care for the taxpaying residents of the city of Chicago, not to protect real criminals).”

Morales pointed out examples of ICE’s frequent traffic violations, use of force and violence against Black and brown communities, CPD-ICE collaboration, and the racist killings of innocent people.

“We have Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez back on September 12, who was just dropping his child off at school. And today, this morning, we have Renee Nicole Good, who was just observing and trying to take care of her neighbors,” said Ash Pantoja, co-chair of the Immigrant Rights Working Committee of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (IRWC of CAARPR). They highlighted the contradictions in ICE’s excuses.

“They call this self-defense, but what is ICE really defending themselves from?” said Pantoja.

Johnnie Hayes of CAARPR’s Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Torture (CFIST) held her grandchild as she spoke. “ICE needs to go. They need to go, and they need to be held accountable.” Hayes, whose husband Devon Showers is currently wrongfully incarcerated, drew patterns between corruption on Chicago’s police force, wrongful conviction, and ICE detentions. She called for solidarity between all movements. “We have to stand firm together in solidarity. We have to stand firm in solidarity. We have to stand strong, not just for ourselves, but our children need this. Our children need us to stand up for them.”

In the middle of the rally ,at 8 p.m., attendees joined protests and vigils nationwide in a minute-long whistle in honor of Renee Nicole Good. Throughout Trump’s escalation of raids and attacks on immigrants, whistles have become a symbol of resistance and solidarity in the movement as community members use them as an alert system for ICE presence.

Gio Araujo of the New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Illinois – Chicago, who grew up in Little Village, stated, “The gunshots that were fired in the Twin Cities were heard all across the country. Everyone heard those gunshots, from New York, to D.C., to Chicago! People are mobilizing, because we know what this means and what this is about. This is an upswing of repression against our movement for immigrant rights. They wanna come into our communities and kill our people.”

“We ain’t gonna let that shit happen, because as they bring the repression, so will we bring the defenses,” said Araujo.

As the Little Village Community Council led the crowd in prayer and vigil service, protesters also marched down 26th Street to the mural of La Virgen de Guadalupe, shouting “Say her name! Renee Nicole Good!” and “ICE is just a racist mob, get a real fucking job!” There, they held a moment of silence for all victims of ICE and reminded attendees to call the Family Support Network Hotline at (855) 465-7693 if they spot ICE in their neighborhoods.

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Tampa, FL – On January 13, approximately 70 people attended a rally at the intersection of USF Palm and Fletcher to demand ICE off campus and justice in the wake of the killing of Nicole Renee Good in Minneapolis.

The protest was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society as a call to action against ICE.

The University of South Florida had reposted on their career services website recruitment effort by Customs and Border Patrol. During the past fall semester, the University of South Florida had invited CBP onto campus for a career fair and USFPD has signed onto the 287(g) agreement allowing officers to be cross trained as ICE agents.

In addition to students and Tampa Bay SDS, the event was attended by community members and members of the Tampa Immigrant Rights Committee. Student organizers spoke about standing in solidarity with Minneapolis, about legalization for all, and to demand that USF take the steps to become a sanctuary campus.

Halima Shaikh, member of SDS, said “A sanctuary campus is a responsibility, a responsibility that the USF administration has to its students, the very students that give them power and money.”

The energy of the crowd was passionate as chants like “No Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!” and “Immigrants are welcome here!” rang out from across the university. Vehicles leaving the university and driving past the intersection honked for the demonstrators or showed off signs with exclamations of solidarity.

After the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, National Students for a Democratic Society called for a week of action against ICE, this event in Tampa being one of many actions across the nation as individuals are outraged by violence perpetuated by ICE.

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West Lafayette, IN – On Monday, January 12, over 100 protesters gathered at the busy intersection of State Street and Northwestern Avenue just outside of Purdue University campus to protest and grieve the brutal murders of Renee Nicole Good and Keith Porter, and the killings of Johnny Noviello and Ismael Ayala Urribr, who died in ICE detention from criminal medical neglect.

The protest was organized by the Purdue chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) with attendance from Purdue Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Greater Lafayette Democratic Socialists of America (GLDSA), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Greater Lafayette Immigrant Allies, and United Tippecanoe Rapid Response Network (UTRRN).

SDS member Reed Stoerck opened the protest, citing the furious anger at the murder of Good and Porter, and the killings of Uribe and Noviello, that have brought people out to the streets, and called on everyone to get organized.

The crowd, composed of students and community members, was impassioned and loud, gathering the attention of people on their commutes home, chanting “IDF, KKK, ICE, they’re all the same!” and “Jonathan Ross is a? Murderer!”

“In her glove compartment, there were no weapons, no explosives, but stuffed animals. Is this what a domestic terrorist would have in their glove compartment?” said Vincent Ferro, a Purdue freshman from Minneapolis who witnessed the cold-blooded murder of Renee Nicole Good. “What's been going on in Minnesota is absolutely just disgusting. It's heartbreaking.”

Melissa Hernandez, a Purdue student, told the crowd, while in tears, “My parents have been waiting 20 years for papers in this country. Never once have they committed a crime!” adding, “They are people too! They are human! They have emotions! We will not live like this and take it anymore!”

Another speaker, who identified themselves as undocumented, said, “I’m an illegal immigrant— I’m not scared to say that – I would like to thank you guys for coming out here. You guys are doing great. If you guys are scared of ICE, just know that we do have a God, and God is by our side, so do not be scared.”

The overall message of the night was to fight despair, get organized, and unite. Many speakers encouraged people to remain vigilant and fight complacency, with others calling for unity and organization.

ICE remains a constant threat to our lives and communities. The best way to fight back is to get organized. Purdue SDS will be hosting a new member meeting at Mad Mushroom on State Street, Thursday, January 22, at 5:30 p.m. Follow us @sdsatpurdue on Instagram.

#WestLafayetteIN #IN #ImmigrantRights #ReneeGood #SDS

Northampton, MA – On Sunday, January 11, the River Valley chapter of FRSO co-sponsored a rally with local activist groups demanding an end to both ICE funding and presence in their communities.

FRSO member Roman Handlen opened the rally with a speech honoring the life of Renee Nicole Good, mentioning the New Year’s Eve ICE murder of Keith Porter in Los Angeles and the 32 lives lost in ICE detention centers in 2025 and citing Good as “the most recent casualty in a systemic failure by a government that revels in terror and unrest.”

Citing the government’s current $50,000 signing bonus for new ICE agents, Handlen shamed the Trump administration for “incentivizing American citizens living in the poverty designed by their government to engage in domestic terrorism against their own communities in the same ways the military grooms working-class people to fight in our wars abroad for imperial interests.”

A representative from LUCE Immigrant Network in Holyoke spoke to the crowd about their Defense Hotline and how to get involved with organizing for immigrant community safety, stating, “Our collective power, vigilance, and solidarity are how we build the safety our communities deserve.”

Massachusetts State Representative Lindsey Sabadosa encouraged citizens to contact their legislators and organizers led a moment of silence before over 1500 community members marched down Main Street with signs and chants against federally sanctioned violence, yelling “ICE out of our streets!”

#NorthhamptonMA #MA #ImmigrantRights #FRSO #LUCE #ReneeGood #ICE

Santa Ana, CA – On Friday, January 9, about 300 protesters chanted “Justice for Renee Good” and “ICE out of Santa Ana” at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office on Civic Center. They held a spray painted banner that read “Fuck ICE!” and signs reading “We demand justice!”

This site has been one of struggle where protesters have tried to block federal vans from exiting in the past year. As protesters started chanting, federal agents attempted to intimidate the crowd using their PA system, but the protesters stood their ground in front of the building chanting.

Diana Terreros with Community Service Organization Orange County’s (CSO OC) Immigration Committee kicked off the protest stating “We are here because Trump has unleashed his federal agents on our neighborhoods for his mass deportation campaign and they continue to escalate. Last year they sent the National Guard out in an attempt to quell protests demanding ICE out of our cities. They’ve pulled guns on ICE watchers and brutalized the community members they are detaining. And now in the last week alone, there have been four shootings by federal agents.”

Terreros added “And this is just in the last couple of days! In 2025, over 30 people died at the hands of ICE.”

Rain Mendoza of CSO OC’s Immigration Committee added, “Renee Good is a hero to her community and should be alive today! Meanwhile, her three children have now lost a parent and her wife has lost a spouse, the disgusting worm Jonathon Ross is at home with his family according to disgraced Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem. Shame! We demand the arrest of Jonathon Ross. We demand an end to deportations!”

A member of ICE out of Lake Forest reminded the crowd, “When we’re met with threats and intimidation, we do what politics and local governments have failed to do. We respond. We work together to build the future we want to see. One that we can be proud of. One that can take care of everyone.”

Reverend Oona Casanova with Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE Justice) told the crowd, “Just one week ago, over New Years Eve celebrations, an off-duty ICE agent shot and killed Keith Porter in Northridge. Bringing the total number of death or injury to nearly a dozen just in the Los Angeles area alone. And this is why we are here today. To speak up, to stand out, and to cry out for justice.”

The protesters chanted “Justice for Keith Porter!”

The crowd of protesters then took the streets to march, with a banner reading “Legalization for all of the undocumented!” and “Community control of the police!” leading the way. Protesters angrily chanted “Jonathan Ross! Lock him up!” The crowd marched down 1st Street, taking up all lanes of traffic. They were met with honks of support and even a school bus full of young Chicanos joining in on the chants.

Once protesters returned to the federal building, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) exclaimed, “No politician is coming to save us! Shame! The supreme court is not coming to save us! Shame! No law enforcement is coming to save us! Shame!”

David Pulido of CSO OC’s Police Accountability Committee recalled the Santa Ana Police Department’s (SAPD) actions during Trump’s mass deportation campaign stating, “SAPD helped ICE! They pushed people back and let vans leave the federal building to kidnap our families!” He added, “And look around! How did SAPD respond when they learned that the people would demand justice for the death of Renee Nicole Good? They closed the streets! They put up the barricades! They let ICE hide! That is why our committee fights for community control of the police.”

Matthew Compton of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) stated “This killing is a massive escalation of repression against those of us who fight back against this racist Trump administration.” He offered a solution, “That is why we must get rid of this system through revolution and implement socialism. Socialism is a system that will give power to the multinational working class. Socialism and revolution is the only way forward.”

The protest was organized by CSO OC and endorsed by CLUE Justice, ICE out of Lake Forest, FRSO, DSA, and OC Environmental Justice.

CSO OC will be hosting another protest on January 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the federal building for Trump's one-year anniversary in office to demand an end to deportations.

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