A national coalition of organizing groups are calling for a coordinated “ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action,” with 1,006 protests and events planned this weekend, with the bulk of them to take place on Saturday, according to organizers.
The protests come just days after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent while in her car in Minneapolis, and two people were shot in Portland, Oregon, by another federal agent.
Newsweek has reached out to ICE for comment via email on Saturday.
Why It Matters
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has insisted that Good was a threat to federal agents and that the agent fired in self-defense, while Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other leading Democrats have sharply criticized ICE’s actions.
In Minnesota, Democrats have repeated calls for ICE to leave the city, while pushing for a thorough investigation into the deadly shooting on a residential street in south Minneapolis, less than a mile from where police killed George Floyd in 2020.
The fatal shooting of Good has drawn protestors to the streets across the country over the past few days. Her death, recent large-scale ICE operations and the shooting of two people by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Portland, has intensified scrutiny of immigration enforcement tactics and the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
What To Know
Protests, vigils, and rallies are planned in all 50 states this weekend, including in major cities as well as smaller suburbs. The action is coordinated by several groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the 50501 Movement, and Indivisible.
The protests seek to honor the lives of those who have been killed by ICE, as well as amplifying calls for the removal of the agency from communities across the country and seeking a transparent investigation into Good’s killing.
The groups involved, such as the Workers Circle note that “all actions under this banner are nonviolent and lawful, community-led, and grounded in moral witness, public accountability, and collective care.”
Events across the country can be found here. Some of the largest demonstrations are expected to take place in the Twin Cities.
On Friday night, hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Canopy by Hilton in Minneapolis where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Protesters shattered windows, sprayed graffiti, and chanted anti-ICE slogans. Police responded at approximately 10:30 p.m., deploying around 100 state troopers to disperse the protest.
The White House posted on X on Saturday morning, “STAND WWITH ICE. STAND WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.”
What People Are Saying
Hunter Dunn, 50501 national press coordinator told Newsweek in an email Saturday: “ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight, in cold blood, in front of her wife, one day before federal agents shot two more people in Portland. We have a moral duty to resist the state-sanctioned domestic terrorists who are rounding up our neighbors and throwing them in concentration camps.”
Deirdre Schifeling, ACLU chief political and advocacy officer, told Newsweek in a Saturday statement: “The shootings in Minneapolis and Portland weren’t the beginning of ICE’s cruelty, but they must be the end. Today, we saw communities across the country gather peacefully to mourn the lives lost at the hands of ICE and to demand accountability. These protests are further proof that public opposition to ICE and this administration’s abuses is growing by the minute. Whether it’s by joining a protest, attending a know your rights training, or demanding that our Congresspeople stop funding these out-of-control agencies, Americans across the country are saying ‘NO. Not on our watch.’”
Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the organizers, told Newsweek in a Saturday email: “What we witnessed last Wednesday, the killing of Renee Good, a mother, wife, poet and neighbor in broad daylight by a federal ICE agent in Minneapolis, is horrific and deserves outrage. It is an escalation of ICE’s already inhumane, lawless, and violent practices that have killed over 30 people in the last year. People across this country are showing up to honor the life of Renée Nicole Good and remember the many others who have died because of ICE violence- and to call for accountability from an agency that has operated without it for far too long. We are demanding ICE out for good.”
The Department of Homeland Security X account wrote in a social media post Saturday: “Reminder: if you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law.”
Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey said during a news conference on Wednesday: “This was a federal agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.”
President Donald Trump, on Truth Social: “The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!”
Vice President JD Vance, in an X post Wednesday: “I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them. To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we’re going to work even harder to enforce the law.”
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