‘ICE Out’ strike and protests: what to know about demonstrations across the US

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• No school.
• No shopping.
• Stop funding ICE.” The “blackout” day, which many online are referring to as a “general strike”, is an effort to “shut down the economy”, organizers say. On Saturday, organizers, led by the national grassroots organization 50501, will stage an “ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action”, which will include a variety of protests, demonstrations, and vigils, in all 50 states and Washington DC. The federal agents deployed in Trump’s immigration crackdown – visualizedRead moreWhy organizers are calling for a strike and ‘ICE Out’ protestsAcross both days, organizers are calling for justice for the people detained by ICE and those killed at the hands of ICE or while in ICE custody.
• This includes cases that haven’t gained widespread attention, such as 55-year-old Cuban immigrant Geraldo Lunas Campos, who was killed while in ICE custody at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, on 3 January, ICE’s detention of five-year-old Liam Ramos in Minnesota this month as he returned home from school, and the ICE shooting of 43-year-old Keith Porter Jr in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Saturday’s protests come amid growing national anger over the ICE killings of Good and Pretti in Minneapolis that were captured on video earlier this month.
• Polling this week from YouGov found that opposition to ICE has increased from earlier this month, with more Americans supporting than opposing abolishing ICE.“We are responding to people’s outrage.