Justice for all ICE victims

The nation has been shocked and outraged by the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. We held a rapid-response candlelight vigil and protest the evening after the news broke, and then our weekly Trump Regime Takedown protest joined the ICE Out for Good nationwide mobilization that Saturday, along with other actions including a human banner on Ocean Beach. A couple hundred showed up to the vigil on short notice, and about a thousand came to Trump Regime Takedown. We thank you on both counts.

A couple days after Renee Good was gunned down by an ICE agent, Border Patrol agents shot two people in Portland. (Border Patrol is under Customs and Border Protection, a sibling agency to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, both under the Department of Homeland Security.) As in Renee Good’s killing, the agents alleged that the victims had tried to run them over with their car. Border Patrol also alleged that the victims were members of the Tren de Aragua gang—the sort of claim immigration authorities have made before about other victims of their unjust treatment.

These aren’t anomalies. These are part of a pattern.

At the end of last year, an off-duty ICE agent killed a Black man named Keith Porter in Los Angeles. The Trace, a nonprofit news outlet focusing on gun violence, reported that “At least three people have been shot observing or documenting immigration raids, and five people have been shot while driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement action” since the Trump regime’s renewed push to terrorize our communities began last year. 

That’s not even counting the dozens of people who have died while in ICE custody, of whom The Guardian compiled a list for 2025. Reuters counts four more just in the first ten days of 2026. Some are reported to have died from acute medical events such as seizures or heart attacks, while some are reported to have died by suicide.

ICE didn’t just kill one white woman. They threaten and kill people of all colors, of all backgrounds. They do target some more than others, because their campaign is blatantly racist, but that doesn’t make any of us exempt: When any of us are under threat, we are all under threat.

Let us honor all of ICE’s victims, no matter the color of their skin, and no matter what claims ICE offers up to excuse their death.

Less well-reported are all the deaths and deportations that didn’t happen because community members stepped up and prevented ICE from taking their neighbors away. We know that filming ICE works, rapid-response hotlines work, and nonviolent community defense works. Whenever you see videos of ICE agents slinking away because the community showed up to protect their neighbors, let it remind you: Resisting ICE works.

Let this ongoing history motivate you to Adopt a Corner, learn how to report ICE to your local rapid-response hotline, help distribute know-your-rights cards, join or start a foot patrol in your neighborhood, or otherwise get involved in resisting this fascist attack on our communities. We can and must help keep each other safe.