ICE Stokes Fear as TSA Workers Get Screwed
For nearly one month, about 50,000 workers from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) went without pay as their parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had been under a partial funding freeze. This recent funding freeze comes after TSA agents were not paid for more than one month in the fall during an earlier […]
Deadly Expansion of ICE Detentions
As ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) expand their operations and build a larger network of concentration camps nationwide, they have also become deadlier for those caught up in the system. The 32 deaths in custody that occurred in 2025 made it the deadliest year for ICE in more than two decades. So far […]
Solidarity with Meatpacking Workers in Colorado!
On Monday, March 16, meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, began a two-week strike against Swift Beef Co. and Pilgrim’s Pride, the U.S.-based subsidiaries of JBS, the giant Brazilian meatpacking corporation. This is the first major strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry in four decades, since the hard-fought but failed Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota in […]
Black History Month and Self-Liberation
During Black History Month, our attention often focuses on the stories and achievements of great leaders. But those leaders are famous only because of the activism of masses of people for their own liberation. Freedom for Black people in the United States and across the Americas was not won by politicians’ speeches, laws, or reform. […]
ICE Fear and Racist Attacks Surround the 2026 Super Bowl in Santa Clara
The Trump administration has threatened the Bay Area with DHS and ICE at the Super Bowl.
Abolish ICE, CBP, and the Whole System that Created Them!
As Trump’s deportation campaign has gained momentum over the first year of his second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have become the violent faces of the regime’s anti-immigrant policies. As they have gone into targeted cities with aggression and staged spectacle, ICE and CBP have terrorized local populations, […]
Minneapolis Shows the Power We All Have!
Last Friday, tens of thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis for a second day of No Work, No School, No Shopping, No ICE mass demonstrations. Schools shut down and hundreds of small businesses closed, and thousands of workers did not go to work. And this time, Minneapolis called on cities across the country to do […]
AI Lies Spread Amid ICE Occupation
While ICE agents have occupied the streets of Minnesota over the past two months, the right wing and federal government have been spreading misinformation. The invasion itself was kicked off by a right-wing YouTuber’s video, falsely alleging fraud by Somali daycare center owners. And as the behavior of federal agents has gotten more and more […]
There IS Fraud!
In recent weeks there has been a lot of attention on sensational claims of large-scale fraud, in this case supposedly perpetrated by the Somali-American community concentrated in Minneapolis. The latest episode of scapegoating against Somali Americans was prompted by a viral video created by a rightwing youtuber. While the video is full of distortions and […]
“Minnesota’s got the ICE melt!” A Mass Movement Against Racist Terror
A crowd of between 50,000 and 100,000 people assembled in Minneapolis on the afternoon of Friday, January 23 in -9° F conditions, to demand an end to the recent terror campaign and occupation of their city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol. The city was engaging in a powerful day of protest […]
2026: It’s All of Us vs. the Billionaire Class
2026 has begun with the Trump administration escalating their brutality against the population and increasing their threats to the world. They are drawing a line in the sand: it is the tiny class of billionaires and those who protect them on one side, and the rest of us on the other. Which direction things continue […]
Minnesotans Are Defending Their Communities Against Authoritarian ICE Terror
The U.S. government’s terror agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are carrying out their most aggressively violent attack campaign to date. Over 3,000 agents have flooded into Minneapolis and elsewhere in Minnesota in the past weeks. They are carrying out a brutally racist operation against local Somali and […]
BART and ICE
BART applied for an received a grant, which would put BART in cooperation with ICE.
The Refugee Policy of Selective Compassion
The Trump administration has announced a new cap on refugee admissions: just 7,500 people for the coming year. This is a drastic drop from the 125,000 who were allowed in during last year under Biden’s presidency. Even for a country that is no stranger to setting limits on who gets this type of protection, the […]
How About ICE?
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), a rapid transit rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area – October 27, 2025 This isn’t about ice on the rails. It’s about the possibility of ICE – those unidentifiable, heavily armed, masked men, invading BART stations. ICE […]
We Mourn Silverio Villegas Gonzales, Killed by ICE Agents
Silverio Villegas Gonzales was a resident of a Chicago suburb, where he lived with his two sons. One day when dropping his kids at school, he was stopped by ICE agents under the pretense of a traffic infraction. He was then shot by one of the agents when he allegedly tried to escape. Silverio was only […]
Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History Hits Hyundai Plant
Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained about 475 workers at the Hyundai Electric Vehicle plant in Georgia, with approximately 300 of them being Korean nationals. Stories from those detained during the raid include accounts of workers hiding in air ducts and swamps to avoid immigration authorities, inhumane reports of shackling and chain […]
Immigrant Detentions and Profits Go Hand in Hand
Private prison companies stand to make massive profits from the U.S. government’s attack on immigrants.
McCarthyism Returns to U.S. Immigration Policy
The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued new guidelines regarding an immigration officer’s ability to deport or deny entry to immigrants if they are determined to have committed “anti-American” speech or are involved with an organization which promotes anti-American ideology. The agency is in charge of processing immigration, asylum, and refugee applications, issuing (or denying) […]
Hands Off Our Community! Hands Off Immigrants!
download as 2-sided leaflet (8.5×11) An Attack on Our Communities The Trump administration has launched attacks on people across the country it claims are criminals, with the goal of deporting one million people each year. The new Federal budget has $45 billion to build new privately run detention centers. The budget for ICE, the masked, […]
Immigrant Workers in Italy Fight Back and Win Better Conditions
Immigrant workers in Prato, Italy, won a 40-hour work week after 14 weeks of striking.
We Must Resist Their Militarization of Society!
Since August 11th, in response to Trump’s blatant lies about a so-called “crime invasion,” hundreds of National Guard troops and armed federal agents have descended upon Washington D.C, patrolling the city, intimidating, harassing, and arresting anyone they can. And now some right wing governors in other states have said they also plan to send hundreds […]
San Francisco Fights Back Against ICE Terror
Late Tuesday morning, around a dozen ICE agents forced through a crowd of protesters, deploying tear gas and pointing a gun at protestors and press. Video shows federal agents shoving a handcuffed man into the back of an unmarked van before speeding through the handful of protestors who stood in front of the vehicle, dragging one person […]
Stand Together against Government Repression!
In recent months the United States government has launched a multitude of attacks on migrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people. It has fired or otherwise forced out of work hundreds of thousands of federal employees and attacked their unions. It has imposed severe cuts to essential government payments (including Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and Social Security), medical […]
Fightback Against Trump’s Attacks: Where could it go from here?
In recent weeks the Trump administration has ramped up efforts to terrorize, detain and deport immigrant workers. Urged by top immigration officials to “turn the creative knob up to 11,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have begun widespread raids on workplaces, farms, sporting events, nightclubs, schools, and more. They were instructed to “push the […]
Bay Area: Protestors Shut Down ICE Abductions at Immigration Courts
Protestors in San Francisco prevented ICE from abducting immigrants.
¡Juntos Podemos Hacer Frente a ICE y a Todos Los Abusos!
En todo el país, la administración Trump está enviando agentes de ICE fuertemente armados para destrozar comunidades de inmigrantes. Han secuestrado y arrastrado a personas en furgonetas sin distintivos, con agentes vestidos de civil, enmascarados y sin identificarse. Han deportado a docenas de inmigrantes a prisiones brutales en otros países. Han atacado a niños de […]
Together We Can Stand Up to ICE and All of the Attacks!
Across the country, the Trump administration is sending heavily militarized ICE agents to rip apart immigrant communities. They have snatched and dragged people away in unmarked vans, with officers in plain clothes, masked, and providing no identification. They have deported dozens of immigrants to brutal prisons in other countries. They have targeted children as young […]
Los Angeles Protests: Together We Have the Power to Stand Up to ICE and All of the Attacks Against Us
As the Trump administration continues to escalate its aggressive attack on immigrants across the country, working-class communities have been left on their own to defend themselves. As the Democrats continue to offer little more than feckless words of opposition, the protests in Los Angeles have shown that the so-called guardrails to this administration — the […]
New Federal Budget Will Massively Expand ICE Terrorism
At the same time as House and Senate Republicans mull over just how much funding should be cut away from crucial public services like Medicaid or Social Security, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem went in front of Congress to justify a $175 billion budget. Should the budget pass, it would make ICE (Immigration Customs […]
Trump Administration’s Latest Horrifying Plan for Migrants: Deport Them to Libya
The Trump administration is in talks with several African nations, most notably Libya, in an attempt to secure a deal similar to the one already in place with El Salvador. There has also been reporting that the administration is in similar “talks” in order to relocate the entire population of Gaza to Libya, in exchange for […]
Sanctuary Status Isn’t Enough to Protect Our Communities
“Wait ‘til you see what’s coming” – Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” issued a thinly-veiled threat at state and local officials across the country last Thursday, May 1st. The warning shot issued by Homan is just the latest development in the Trump administration’s inhumane policy towards immigrants. Homan was responding to a question about Wisconsin […]
Cinco de Mayo Parades Cancelled Out of Fear
Ahead of the weekend celebrations, Philadelphia and Chicago canceled their annual Cinco de Mayo parades out of fear that their community would be targeted by ICE raids. The holiday celebrates the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. The parades usually draw tens of thousands of people. But with attacks […]
When Students Are Under Attack… Stand Up, Fight Back
The detentions of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student from Turkey, set the stage for the U.S. government’s ongoing attacks against immigrant and international students. The students’ outspoken criticism of the U.S.-Israeli genocide against Palestinians is the underlying cause of their being criminalized and imprisoned by […]
Community Fights For Release Of Family Abducted By ICE… And Succeeds!
On Thursday, March 27th, a mother and her three children, one third grader and two high school students, were abducted and taken into custody by ICE officials. They are originally from Guatemala, and the raid took place in the small Republican-leaning town of Sackets Harbor in upstate New York. The town is the childhood and […]
Are Deportees Guinea Pigs in New, International Prison Scheme?
Last weekend, on March 16, the Trump administration deported at least 260 people who it said were Venezuelan immigrants in the United States without documentation and/or who were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. These deportations are concerning not only because of how they were conducted and under what authority, but also because of […]
Hands Off Mahmoud Khalil!
On the night of Saturday, March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University in New York City, was arrested by plain-clothed ICE agents to be deported. Although a federal judge has since blocked Trump’s attempt to deport Khalil, he is currently in custody in an ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana. He graduated […]
Take Action: Print, Share, and Protect with Red Cards
Everyone who lives in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, has rights and protections. Across the country – from schools to healthcare settings – people are sharing small, powerful tools known as “red cards” that serve to reinforce this fact. These wallet-sized cards act as concise, easy to understand guides to your rights when interacting […]
Shakira Dedica Su Último Grammy a los Inmigrantes: “Siempre Lucharé con Ustedes”
Shakira ganó el premio al Mejor Álbum Pop Latino en los GRAMMYs 2025. En su discurso de aceptación, dedicó el premio a los inmigrantes: “Quiero dedicar este premio a todos mis hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes en este país. Son amados, valen la pena, y siempre lucharé con ustedes”. Shakira alcanzó el éxito internacional al irrumpir […]
Shakira dedicates her latest Grammy to immigrants: “I will always fight with you”
Shakira won Best Latin Pop Album at the 2025 Grammys. In her acceptance speech, she dedicated the award to immigrants: “I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country. You are loved, you are worth it, and I will always fight with you”. Shakira became an international success […]
Baltimore County Students Fight Back Against ICE Oppression!
Baltimore County students erupted in protest last week in response to the racist and xenophobic tweets of one of their teachers threatening to turn students’ names over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. On Feb. 3, a day where some tried to organize “A Day Without Immigrants” protests, an Overlea High School teacher […]
The Attack on Immigrant Workers is an Attack on Us All!
The second Trump administration has begun with aggressive targeting of immigrant communities. From San Jose to Chicago to Miami, close to one thousand people a day have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be deported. There are even now talks of daily quotas, 1,500 arrests nationwide, and 75 for each ICE field […]
These Attacks are Meant to Stop Us. We Can’t Let Them!
Announcement after announcement about planned executive orders have been filling up our news feeds in the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. From education to healthcare to food access to queer, trans, and immigrant rights, Trump’s administration has asserted plans to cut federal support for programs that many of us rely on. […]
French and Immigrant Workers: Same Bosses, Same Fight!
January 27, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French On January 23, [French] Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau sent an announcement to all [regional authorities], tightening the conditions for foreigners entering and staying in France. Taking the place of a 2012 announcement from Manuel Valls, it will further reinforce the […]
Their Whole System is the Problem — Not Migrants
Trump has now been in power for a week. Since taking office, he has shown very clearly whose interests he intends to represent. Trump’s inauguration was attended by some of the wealthiest and most powerful CEOs in our society, including the three richest men in the world — Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk […]
An Attack on Immigrant Workers is an Attack on All Workers
During the recent U.S. presidential elections, both Harris and Trump focused on immigration as a central issue. Now that Trump has been elected president, he is threatening serious measures: mass deportations, ending automatic citizenship for children of immigrants born in the U.S., and rolling back temporary protected status for certain migrants who are escaping unsafe […]
The Other Big Lies – Are Immigrants to Blame for Problems We Face?
Beginning in 2016, Donald Trump and the Republicans started attacking immigrants. Trump has said such racist statements as, “when Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best…they’re rapists,” and that “immigrants are poisoning the blood of the nation.” The Republicans and Trump scapegoat immigrants for the many problems we face, and now the hostility […]
France: An Attack on Immigrant Workers is an Attack on All Workers
French and Italian politicians are attacking immigrant workers… but the immigrants are not the enemy, capitalists are.
Pets on the Menu? A Racist Lie Not Fit For Consumption
Let’s not be distracted by fantastical stories about pet abductions and eating, or about how immigrants are destroying small Midwestern towns. The real problem is the profit driven capitalist system and the people who run it. Let’s turn our anger towards them!
Wrongly Blaming Immigrants at the Republican National Convention
At the Republican National Convention, the right wing continued to spread lies about immigrants to fuel fear among conservative working people. Texas senator, Ted Cruz, repeated the same old anti-immigrant rhetoric, claiming that, “We are facing an invasion on our southern border – not figuratively, a literal invasion.” Republican House Speaker of Louisiana, Mike Johnson, […]