Fascism depends on our compliance. Authoritarians know they cannot sustain rule by individually repressing each person in the country. They use threats and violence to inflict fear — a primary weapon to force compliance. If fear is their strategy for compliance, then we need a strategy for sustaining dissent. Amid Trump’s unjustified and illegal war on Iran, many of us need space to…
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A new poll shows a majority of Americans support calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Economist/YouGov survey, conducted from February 27 through March 2, asked respondents whether they had any confidence in ICE. Only 39 percent said they had a “great deal” or “some” confidence in the agency, while 56 percent said they had “only a little” or “none at all” in ICE to…
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Under Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started appearing ever more like a private militia, unleashing brutal violence against families and displaying sycophantic loyalty to Trump as he mandates the dehumanizing treatment of immigrants. In the days since January, when federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti and 37…
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Donald Trump used his State of the Union Address to vilify immigrants as dangerous, ignoring the violence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations throughout the country toward undocumented immigrants and citizens. DHS has kidnapped people (including children) off the streets, detained them without due process in facilities with substandard conditions, failed to get warrants before…
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Demands for accountability are mounting after internal records revealed this week that an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old US citizen, almost a year ago in South Padre Island, Texas. “While Martinez’s death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI…
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Escalating opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and beyond is pushing renewed debate within the Democratic Party about Donald Trump’s war on immigrants. From rallies and ICE watch trainings to mutual aid and coordinated strikes, countless people are demanding an end to ICE’s deadly regime. In response to this robust organizing and the high…
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