Murders by ICE ‘security agents’ spark protests

After two more extrajudicial killings of immigrants by security agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department in just the past week, nationwide protests have once again erupted in the United States.

The widespread and angry demonstrations have already forced the administration of Donald Trump to almost fully suspend ICE's ability to stop vehicles without a warrant.

• Obama, Clinton urge Americans to ‘stand up’ as protests intensify across US
  

  Obama, Clinton urge Americans to ‘stand up’ as protests intensify across US

  Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton urge Americans to stand up after fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.

More protests are expected as the unprecedented anti-immigrant crackdown has been going on for 18 consecutive months, drastically undermining Washington's claim to be a beacon of human rights, tolerance, and even basic respect for the law.

And we are going to be in the streets until we have a new government because the government that's in office now are not for the people, they are out murdering people [sic].

And what's really sad is that we're also supporting another country that's committing genocide.

Ralph Nix, Refuse Fascism

• More anti-immigrant murders by ICE spark nationwide protests
  

  More anti-immigrant murders by ICE spark nationwide protests

  Since January 2025 the United States has waged an anti-immigrant crackdown which seems likely to permanently tarnish its claims of being a beacon of human rights.

In what many say is an effort to intimidate protesters, the Trump administration just charged 15 people with January's highly publicized efforts to impede the anti-immigrant crackdown in Minnesota, accusing them of conspiring against the federal government.

We saw in Minneapolis that we're most successful when we stand up and fight back as one, when we have labor on board, when we have schools on board, when we have our neighbors, community groups, and all these people are unified and have this like rallying cry that we want ICE out of our communities.

We know that we are strongest when we withhold our labor, that our labor makes this whole world run.

And so, if we refuse to give them that, that's when they listen to us.

Protester 01

• Eight killed by ICE ‘security agents’ in just five weeks
  

  Eight killed by ICE ‘security agents’ in just five weeks

  In the United States, protests have escalated following the killing of a protester by ICE agents in Minnesota, with eight deaths in five weeks and 32 in the previous year.

Activists assert that the murder of a respected 52-year-old construction worker who had been in the country for 35 years and who was close to obtaining legal immigration status disproves, yet again, the administration's claim that ICE is only targeting criminals.

I think the most important thing is to remember that Lorenzo was a loving and hardworking man who was killed in the street by an agency that did not give him due process, and that is something that we need, and that's enshrined and guaranteed to us in the Constitution.

But Lorenzo, as special as he was, was not the first, and I want him to be the last.

... he won't be the last unless we start doing more events like this and demand a change.

Protester 02

• Protests intensify over ICE shooting of man in Minnesota
  

  Protests intensify over ICE shooting of man in Minnesota

  Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement In Minnesota have intensified after an ICE agent shot and killed a detained protester, who was later labeled a domestic terrorist by the Trump administration.

Since Trump took office, ICE has been involved in at least 39 shootings and caused 10 deaths.

Some 52 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025.

In an effort to stop the bloodshed, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that Mexico will request that criminal charges be filed in United States courts over the deaths of more than a dozen Mexican citizens in ICE custody.

• Anti-ICE protesters stage nationwide rallies, clashing with police amid ‘National Shutdown’ demonstrations
  

  Anti-ICE protesters stage nationwide rallies, clashing with police amid ‘National Shutdown’ demonstrations

  Protesters stage rallies across the United States against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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