After ICE left a trail of violence in Minneapolis, opposition to Trump’s lawless immigration force is reaching new heights. The faces of Trump’s immigration enforcement — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Border Patrol officer Gregory Bovino — are facing heat and consequences, and long-term funding for Trump’s deportation machine is on the rocks. It’s crucial progress — but we have to go further. As critical resistance to ICE’s lawlessness grows, we can’t ignore the network of powerful corporations that help make its violence possible. From tech giants like Amazon, AT&T, and Microsoft, to retailers like Home Depot, to controversial data-mining firm Palantir, their lucrative contracts and corporate collaboration allow ICE to carry out its violent, large-scale enforcement campaign across the country. Without the cloud computing, surveillance software, communications infrastructure, and logistical cooperation these corporations provide, ICE couldn’t function. That’s why we need to speak out and ensure that companies know enabling hate and militarism has a cost.

This matters because Customs and Border Protection's presence on campus directly impacts students, their safety, and their well-being. Furthermore, inviting CBP to attend the Career Fair proves a direct contradiction to the values and mission statements emphasized by the University. Jefferson must commit to prioritizing their students and taking a public stand against the violence caused by CBP and ICE. 

ICE is not a neutral security force. ICE and federal agents have been militarizing our cities and terrorizing our communities—murdering civilians, pointing their guns at protesters and observers, and kidnapping our neighbors off the street. ICE has consistently met any peaceful protest with more state-sanctioned violence. They’ve abducted toddlers and murdered Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They’re countering whistles and cameras with guns and tear gas. Even when we have video evidence of their violence, they're telling us not to believe our own eyes. The presence of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE, at the Winter Olympics is allegedly to “mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations.” But we already know the agency has a documented history of making false claims to justify raids, deportations, and politically motivated operations, like the recent kidnapping of Venezuela’s president. Team USA should publicly oppose ICE’s involvement at the Winter Games and ensure that U.S. participation reflects global unity and respect for all, not intimidation and fear. Demand the U.S. Olympic Team opposes ICE at the 2026 Winter Olympics!

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is the only remaining agreement limiting the expansion of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. On February 5, 2026, the treaty is set to expire. That would mean NO limits at all on the expansion of the U.S. or Russian nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than 50 years. Trump clearly has no problem with recklessly dragging the U.S. into conflict abroad — launching a lawless coup in Venezuela, threatening to seize Greenland, and pushing us closer to another endless war in the Middle East, this time with Iran — in the new year alone. If we allow New START to expire with no backup plan, Trump will have yet another avenue to fulfill his authoritarian goals — one that puts the entire world at risk. History has shown us what a new nuclear arms race means: Communities poisoned, ecosystems destroyed, billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars funneled toward war profiteers, all for weapons that put us all at risk. It’s a fate we can avoid if we put collective pressure on lawmakers to act NOW and avoid a new nuclear arms race before it begins.

Students around Georgia have been missing or dropping out of school due to fear of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our parents are scared and our families are in crisis. Immigrants make 20% of all people in Dekalb County. They are active members of the community contributing every day and deserve to be protected from the attacks. We deserve to have a safe learning environment in school and feel supported by our elected leaders.  Dekalb County prides themselves on diversity and inclusion, this is the time to show immigrants are included in that diversity. We need to show up for each other and for our leaders to be courageous in the stand against ICE. 

Every year, thousands of immigrants have their rights violated by a system that operates with very little oversight and accountability. People are denied access to medical care. They are subject to subpar living conditions. They experience preventable illnesses and injuries. And every year, people die at the hands of our government in detention.  Thousands of people have come forward with complaints of sexual assault and physical abuse under DHS’s watch. Only a fraction of those complaints are ever investigated.  Meanwhile, ICE agents have flooded our streets—violating our civil liberties, abusing and harming peaceful observers and protesters, kidnapping people in broad daylight, and even murdering people as the world watches in horror.  Immigration enforcement was never about safety. It was always about power. But our government doesn’t get a free pass to abuse, detain, and violate the rights of the people who live, work, and care for their families here. We demand a just and fair immigration system that upholds the dignity of every human being that lives here.  ICE and DHS have terrorized the people of this country. And it’s time we close all detention camps and stop the deportation-industrial complex once and for all by getting ICE off our streets. Sign the petition!

ICE’s budget has skyrocketed over the past decade to more than $85 billion—nearly 14 times what it once was just 10 years ago. And under Trump, the directives given to agents have gotten more extreme, the training drastically reduced, and the protocol more cruel.  Trump’s ICE has taken to right-wing social media and gun shows to recruit thousands of new agents—loosening employment criteria, neglecting background checks, using neo-Nazi slogans in advertisements, and offering a bribe of $50,000 in sign-up bonuses.  Meanwhile, Border Patrol leaders—who have historically operated separately from interior immigration enforcement—have stepped up in positions of power in ICE. The militarization of the agency combined with its quick and unvetted growth has created a tinderbox of violence and lawlessness that is unprecedented.  Trump’s first term was ICE’s deadliest year in the past two decades. And in the first month of 2026, six people died in ICE custody. Hundreds of thousands of people have been deported, their families ripped apart, their communities devastated. U.S. citizens, including children, have been swept up in the chaos—detained and even deported. It is disturbing, heartbreaking, and immoral.  >>Enough is enough. Trump’s ICE is out of control. Congress must STOP their reign of terror now—add your name.<<

The government created Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003, the same time the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established, as a post-9/11 fearmongering tactic that reframed our immigrant neighbors as a domestic threat.  Every year, the government spends billions of dollars to uphold the largest detention system in the world—a system designed to detain and deport immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking a brighter future for themselves and their families. And instead, are met with intimidation, neglect, and even violence.  Every year, thousands of people have their rights violated by a system that operates with very little oversight and accountability. People are denied access to medical care. They are subject to subpar living conditions. They experience preventable illnesses and injuries. And every year, people die at the hands of our government in immigration detention.  Every year, people come forward with complaints of sexual assault and physical abuse under DHS’s watch. Only a fraction of those complaints are ever investigated. Why? Because there is no independent oversight—ICE and DHS are responsible for investigating complaints and auditing immigrant prisons and jails. And they don’t want to.  We can’t reform a system that—at its core—is cruel and inhumane. We can’t reform a system whose primary reason for existence is to vilify, detain, and deport our neighbors. A system that is too easily manipulated and exploited by bad actors, time and time again.  We need to abolish ICE. We need to redirect funds to a just and fair immigration system that provides a pathway to citizenship for the millions of people who live, work, and care for their families here. And we need to ensure that every single person in this country is treated with the same dignity and respect—their civil rights upheld.  >>Add your name to the petition NOW to demand we abolish ICE and stop its campaign of terror!<<

ICE is being directed to attack communities in our homes, schools, and streets. The horrible and unjustifiable murders of Minnesotans Alex Pretti and Renee Good at the hands of ICE agents show how shameless they are about assaulting our rights.  They’re terrorizing our communities right before our eyes. Trump’s administration will keep doubling down on violence against our communities, weaponizing ICE against us—and working to cover it up. We refuse to stay silent. From schools to sidewalks, playgrounds to public spaces, the presence of ICE only makes our communities less safe. ICE has no place in our communities—not in Minnesota, not anywhere. Demand ICE retreat from our communities now.

Right now, millions of undocumented people in the U.S. are facing ICE’s terrifying attacks while they try to navigate an inhumane, complex web of steps to achieving citizenship. If people do everything right, they often still face deportation—sometimes even getting detained while showing up to legally mandated immigration hearings.  Congress must act to fight back against the criminalization of immigration and create a fair and accessible pathway to legal status and citizenship for all undocumented people living in the U.S., including Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status recipients.  Add your name to demand that Congress fight back against Trump’s cruel policies and commit to a more compassionate, more just citizenship process now.

Families are being ripped apart, from Los Angeles to Minneapolis to D.C. and countless communities in between. Children are learning about their parents' disappearance via social media, and ICE has ramped up its retaliatory detentions—detaining immigrants who have spoken out about the cruel policies of the Trump administration.  Since Trump’s second term began, the number of people abducted by ICE skyrocketed by 84%, and it’s all funded by a staggering $45 billion investment in ICE’s inhumane deportation campaign.  Let's be clear: These detentions aren’t arrests—they’re kidnappings. Immigrants are being detained indiscriminately and given little to no access to due process or mechanisms to be released.  Sign the petition to demand ICE release thousands of people who have been abducted from their communities >>

Update 2/4/26: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released from custody but their charges remain.  In this country, under the First Amendment, reporters are free to view, document, and share information with the public. And that’s exactly what these journalists were doing in Minnesota.  From day one of Trump’s second term, this administration has been attacking the free press. From defunding public media to banning press outlets from White House press briefings to removing legacy media outlets from the Pentagon and attacking individual journalists, the administration has worked not only to discredit valid reporting as “fake news” but taken major steps to control and shut down the free press. The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a major escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the First Amendment, jeopardizing freedom of the press and ultimately threatening all of our rights. Demand that the Trump administration immediately drop federal charges against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort!