The same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a little-known airline named Avelo announced that it would no longer fly deportation flights. Though the announcement was overshadowed by the news in Minneapolis, it is a major victory: The biggest commercial carrier of kidnapped and detained souls is ending its estimated $150…
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Two U.S. states and their respective largest metropolitan areas have filed lawsuits seeking to block the Trump administration’s anti-immigration activities there, alleging that immigration officials are causing harm to residents and are violating states’ rights to self-governance as laid out in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. On Monday, the state of Minnesota, joined by the “Twin…
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FBI investigators are looking into Renee Nicole Good’s life and potential history of anti-ICE activism after her death, sources familiar with the situation have said, seemingly trying to retroactively justify her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Sources told The New York Times that it “seems increasingly unlikely” that the Immigration and Customs…
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She could have been me. That was my first thought when I learned that Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother, poet, and community advocate — had been shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. As a mother, an abolitionist organizer, and an artist, I felt that familiar twitching and burning, the despairing rage pooling under my skin, looking for an outlet.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota — Tear gas filled the air outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on January 9 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers led two demonstrators away in handcuffs. For hours on Friday, caravans of ICE vehicles passed in front of the pop-up protests, carrying immigrants to be processed for deportation. Amid a mass influx of federal immigration agents to…
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Despite public scrutiny over federal immigration agents’ use of force following the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Republicans in Arizona are pushing to criminalize protestors for “obstructing” an arrest. Top Republicans marked the start of the new legislative session with the announcement during an early morning news conference, brandishing bright red posters with “We support ICE”…
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