Enough is Enough
We Need ICE Out for Good
On January 23, while over 75,000 protesters marched in Minneapolis through −10 °F temperatures to defend their city against ICE, Americans across the country gathered in solidarity at hundreds of nonviolent events in their own communities to echo the demands in Minnesota: it is time to get ICE Out for Good.
Only one day after our mass mobilization, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis — just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
Alex Pretti should be alive.
Renee Nicole Good should be alive.
Minneapolis—and all our communities—must be free from the violence of DHS.
ICE and Border Patrol are storming our streets and harassing and detaining people without due process based on the color of their skin, their language or accent, or where they live. Masked federal agents are teargassing babies and pastors, seizing our neighbors and shipping them off to foreign torture prisons, and killing innocent people. Thirty-two people reportedly died in ICE custody last year — and the violence will only continue to escalate if we don’t show up together and stand up to ICE and Border Patrol.
Thanks to Democrats refusing to fund DHS without serious reforms, Congress is still negotiating how to fund the agency moving forward. We need every Member of Congress to oppose any business-as-usual DHS bill that lets ICE and Border Patrol continue brutalizing our communities and with more slush funds for lawlessness. Their choice is simple: stand with our communities to say ENOUGH is ENOUGH, ICE OUT—or continue enabling this terror. We must demand all Members— especially our Democratic senators — refuse to give ICE one more penny of taxpayer money or vote for any funding bill that doesn’t get ICE and Border Patrol out of our cities.
Demand Congress rein in ICE
As negotiations continue, Congress must write a new funding bill that halts DHS’s terror tactics and cuts off its slush funds. This cannot be business as usual. Congress must impose real, enforceable limits on ICE and Border Patrol violence.
Tell Corporations: Get Ice Out
Corporations including Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta all have a role to play in standing up to ICE. Demand that they take action now to get ICE out of our communities.
PreparE for ICE in Your Neighborhood
Exercising our Constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents is more important than ever. The Eyes on Ice: Document and Record training will give you the tools you need to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force.
Tell Your Senators to Reject More Money for ICE and Border Patrol
Congress needs to negotiate a new DHS funding bill that stops Trump’s escalating war on our communities dead in its tracks. This cannot be business as usual. They must refuse to send another penny to the agency that’s trampling our rights, taking our children, and conducting violence in our streets. Every Member of Congress should publicly oppose the DHS appropriations bill unless it:
Ensures there is not one penny more for ICE or CBP
Pulls ICE and Border Patrol out of Minneapolis and the rest of our communities
Prevents ICE or Border Patrol enforcement at designated ‘sensitive locations’ such as houses of worship, day cares, and hospitals
Restricts ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension
Ends the administration’s unlawful practice of warrantless home entries and arrests
Demand Congress rein in ICE
Contact Your Members of Congress
Make your voice heard at your Member of Congress’s Local Office
Every Member of Congress has one or more local offices, but constituents very rarely visit them. The Tea Party understood this, and they knew they could make their voice heard by going in person to those offices, often unannounced. This seems simple, but it can have an enormous impact—the whole congressional staff will be talking about that group that showed up and demanded answers about Trump’s agenda. It also demonstrates to them that you, their constituents, care very much about the issue you’ve come to speak about and that you’ll be watching what they do going forward.
We know that showing up works. Every single time we’ve organized around district visits, we’ve made lawmakers take notice—and changed the political landscape. Now we are here to do it again. Because the stakes are too high to stay home.
Tell Corporations: Get Ice Out
Demand corporations stand with us and stand up to ICE
On January 23rd, dozens of unions, community and faith organizations called on every Minnesotan to take a stand with a unified, statewide pause in economic activity. More than 75,000 took to the streets of Minneapolis in -10 F weather to demonstrate their disapproval.
The call now is even more urgent and we need an even greater display of national solidarity. Join organizers in Minnesota and national partners to pressure corporations to show up for our communities and stand up to ICE.
Our demands are:
ICE must leave Minnesota now.
Any officer who kills a civilian must be held legally accountable. That starts with legitimate investigations and charges by local officials.
Shut down Trump’s ICE. No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming Congressional budget and ICE should be investigated for human and Constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors.
We call upon all corporations to become 4th Amendment businesses, cease economic relations with ICE and refuse ICE entry or using their property for staging grounds, and lobby Congress to freeze funding for ICE/DHS.
Call or email each corporation to demand they take action to get ICE out of our communities NOW.
Priority Focus: Target
On January 8th, Customs and Border Protection agents attacked and detained two US citizens who were employees at the Richfield, MN Target. Target is headquartered in Minneapolis and is Minnesota’s fourth largest employer. Minnesota sports teams play in stadiums and jerseys with Target’s logo on them. They should be standing with the people of Minnesota and speaking out against ICE’s invasion of the state.
Other companies we demand take action
Minneapolis is a huge hub for Delta Airlines, but they said nothing as ICE has surged in Minnesota and killed two citizens. ICE is using Hilton accommodations and Enterprise rental vehicles to operate. And Home Depot has stood by while ICE conducts violent raids on their property. Whether they’re actively cooperating or remaining silent, each of these corporations are standing by while ICE terrorizes the communities where they operate.
