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Alliyah Lusuegro: Target Needs to Kick Ice Out of Its Stores

It may be time for some of us to rethink where we shop.

February 19, 2026 · 10 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: The ICEY Fingers of Our Prison Industry

Congress has spent decades nullifying even a whiff of comprehensive immigration reform while simultaneously encouraging American businesses to both hire and demonize the cheap labor. 

February 18, 2026 · 9 Comments

Rivera Sun: 10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

February 17, 2026 · 9 Comments

Rashida James-Saadiya: Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.

February 13, 2026 · 5 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: On Seeking Asylum and Refuge

In a Hostile United States

February 12, 2026 · 5 Comments

Theia Chatelle:  Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE

Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

February 10, 2026 · 10 Comments

Liz Theoharis & Sam Theoharis: The Young Organizers Survival Corps

Despite a seemingly endless barrage of think pieces bemoaning the fickleness and apathy of the young, teenagers and young adults have been at the forefront of every significant struggle of this moment. 

February 5, 2026 · 8 Comments

Video: Bruce Springsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis 

This is the song heard round the world.

February 1, 2026 · 15 Comments

Chris Walker: Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center 

An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,”

January 28, 2026 · 8 Comments

Abby Zimet: The Promised Land | When Fate Looks Upon You

OMG. We have landed in an inane, insane, bombastic Monty Python skit, slap-dash improvised by a sick vengeful child king churning through endless hissy fits.

January 22, 2026 · 6 Comments

Umme Hoque & Daniel Hunter: How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE

Success required a mix of local and national organizing, direct action, and political pressure alongside the better-known boycott.

January 20, 2026 · 10 Comments

Rachel Trousdale & Charles W. Brice: Two Elegies for Renée Nicole Good

I think of long dead Germans caught in the Bardo.
Are they wagging their fingers at us?
Now you know what it felt like, they say

January 13, 2026 · 17 Comments

Stephen Prager: Hours After US Citizen Shot Dead by ICE, JD Vance Said ‘Door-to-Door’ Operations Are Coming

“This is starting to look disturbingly like Germany in the 1930s.”

January 13, 2026 · 7 Comments

Immigrant Defense Project: ICE Ruses

When Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents go to homes and the community to arrest non-citizens, it’s common for them to lie about who they are and what they want from the individuals they encounter. 

December 11, 2025 · 4 Comments

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