Read our editorial on Trump’s mass deportation campaign as a response to imperialist economic crisis here.
Protesters have taken to the streets in cities across the country in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s execution-style murder of legal observer Renee Nicole Good on January 7. From the epicenter of protest in Minneapolis, where Good was murdered, protests spread across the country.
In Minneapolis, protests that began the day of Good’s killing have continued every day since, with thousands taking to the streets, facing dozens of arrests, setting up barricades, burning US flags, and pelting federal agents with snowballs.
ICE killed Good during an ongoing operation against foreign-born workers in Minneapolis. Good’s killer is identified by monopoly media as ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
Just a day after Good’s execution, Democrat mafia Governor Tim Walz authorized the National Guard to mobilize against protesters. Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem announced a surge of “hundreds” of federal agents to Minneapolis to protect federal agents from the people in the days since the protests began.
In California, thousands have marched through Los Angeles denouncing ICE since Good’s murder. On January 9, demonstrators in Santa Ana threw traffic cones and fireworks against federal police, who fired “non-lethal” munitions at demonstrators’ heads, permanently blinding a demonstrator in one eye according to monopoly media reports.
In New York City, over 1,000 protesters assembled the night after Good’s murder. The crowd chanted “Kristi Noem will hang,” “Fuck the immigration authorities, fuck the police” in Spanish, and “Save a life, kill an ICE.”
A protester told The Worker, “We need to make them [ICE] scared…. Electoral politics won’t save us. Zohran [NYC’s Mayor Mamdani] won’t do anything.”
Another said that “We blocked traffic but all the drivers were honking and raising their fist to us. The people are on our side.”
In Philadelphia, PA, nearly 3,000 people attended a vigil at City Hall on January 8 before marching to a federal prison, chanting against ICE and burning a US flag. In a speech, one demonstrator linked the mass deportation drive and execution of Good to the deepening crisis of imperialism, concluding on the necessity of the working class to unite.
In Portland, OR, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents shot two people in their car January 8 during a traffic stop, with both victims surviving. Several protesters outside of an ICE facility in South Portland were reportedly arrested that night.
In Austin, TX, demonstrators gathered at an ICE detention facility January 8, banging on its walls and leaving spray painted messages on the building reading “Fuck ICE” while speakers denounced the Austin police for handing over a foreign-born mother and her small child to be disappeared by ICE despite the city’s “sanctuary” laws. Two days later in the city, demonstrators marched in front of a federal building, continuing into the night despite police teargas attacks and multiple arrests.
Image: An Anti-ICE Rally in Philadelphia, January 8, 2026. Credit: The Worker
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