ICE is Terrorizing Us: What’s Happening & How to Fight Back
Military planes. Racist goons with minimal training in tactical gear. Families being torn apart at gunpoint. And now: Americans murdered in the streets for defending their neighbors.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were publicly executed by ICE's deputized agents in Minneapolis for trying to protect people being hunted in their community—targeted for bearing witness to state terror.
The images and videos emerging from Minneapolis are barbaric, unconscionable, and impossible to unsee. They harken back to the atrocities of a previous era: Nazis rounding up people they deemed as “other” or “inferior” and sending them away or executing them. Slave catchers (the predecessors of modern U.S.-policing) kidnapping any Black person off the street to be sent into slavery. It seems incomprehensible that something so sinister could be happening again.
Image Source: Al Jazeera
History shows us exactly where this goes. Governments don’t just round up and deport masses of people without first dehumanizing them. The Nazis didn’t start with concentration camps; they started with propaganda calling Jewish people “vermin” and “invaders.” Rwanda’s genocide began with Hutus calling Tutsis “cockroaches.” The Native American genocide was enabled by decades of referring to Indigenous peoples as “savages.” The centuries-long enslavement of Africans and their descendants legitimized through junk science that compared Black people to animals.
Today, ICE is deploying hastily recruited agents with minimal training, brought in through recruitment campaigns drenched in white nationalist propaganda about “invasion” and “defending the homeland.” They’re separating families and denying people basic healthcare in detention.
This is how it starts. Every. Damn. Time.
The Women, Peace and Security framework has proven what actually creates safety: inclusive communities, investment in people over policing, and leadership that represents everyone. ICE is doing the exact opposite, while following a historical pattern that has always ended in atrocity.