Agents arrested Janette Goering in an early-morning raid on October 21 in connection with the July 4 armed action against the ultra-reactionary Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
Goering was arrested at her home in Carrollton, Texas, by federal and local police. According to the DFW Support Committee, which is organizing legal support for the people facing charges in connection to the Prairieland action, she is being held at Johnson County Jail on a $5 million bond. She faces a state charge of aiding in the commission of terrorism. Goering’s arrest brings the total number of those apprehended for their alleged connection with the July 4 action to 18.
Two other defendants, Autumn Hill (legal name Cameron Arnold) and Zachary Evetts, are both facing “1 count of providing material support to terrorists, 3 counts of attempted murder of officers and employees of the United States, and 3 counts of discharging a firearm during, in relation to, and in furtherance of a crime of violence”, as detailed in the October 15 federal indictment against them. The DFW Support Committee states that most of the defendants have also been charged at the state level, meaning that they will be forced to fight simultaneous federal and state cases, on top of facing a collective total of $15 million in bond.
The Prairieland case stems from an armed action against the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. According to monopoly media reports, 11 people assailed the facility on July 4 with fireworks and sprayed anti-ICE messages on vehicles before leaving the scene. According to the old-state, during the action, a police officer was shot in the neck by one of the activists using an AR-style rifle, though the officer was soon released from the hospital with minor injuries.
FBI Director Kash Patel and US Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the indictment on social media as the opening moves in bringing “domestic terrorism” charges against the left. The indictment labels Hill and Evetts as members of an “Antifa Cell”, while previous charges against them did not.
The indictment follows ultra-reactionary President Trump’s September executive order that designates “Antifa” as a terrorist organization. Patel has already condemned the defendants as “Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremists” in order to distort public perception of the activists before they go to trial. As previously covered in The Worker, the Trump administration calls “Antifa… a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law” while directing the old-state’s police forces to enact a broad crackdown on the left and the people’s struggles under the guise of combating “domestic terrorism” and “political violence”.
The charges against the Prairieland defendants serve as testing grounds of the new “Antifa” executive order, persecuting political prisoners under terrorism charges as part of the broader trend of reactionization of the state, which is advancing as part of the imperialists’ desperate plans to recover from their crisis.
Image: FBI director Kash Patel speaks in Chicago in support the ICE terror against immigrant workers in the city, in October 2025. Wikimedia Commons, FBI photo.
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