Masked agents are inflicting terror on immigrant communities across the country, detaining people without warrants, raiding workplaces, and separating parents in front of their children. Under Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resembles a secret police force, often operating behind masks, in unmarked vehicles, and in plainclothes. What we are witnessing isn’t merely an immigration enforcement scandal, it’s a full-scale assault on our values. Three bills in Congress seek to change that. The VISIBLE Act (S.2212), the No Anonymity in Immigration Enforcement Act (H.R.4004), and the No Secret Police Act (H.R.4176) would require immigration enforcement officers to clearly display identification and prohibit the use of face coverings during operations. Unidentifiable agents abducting people from our streets is simply unacceptable. But we’re not powerless in the face of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. A key step toward accountability and shutting down these authoritarian tactics is unmasking ICE. That’s why we’re rallying support for these three crucial bills today, and we’re counting on you to speak out:

Unless Massachusetts lawmakers take action NOW, our neighborhoods are fair game for federal agents to terrorize with impunity.

Les escribimos como personas preocupadas de la comunidad de El Paso, una ciudad moldeada por la migración, la resiliencia y las experiencias vividas de una población predominantemente latinx. Nos sentimos consternades e indignades por la decisión de la Biblioteca Pública de El Paso de invitar a un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE. UU. como parte de un evento infantil el 20 de junio de 2025, particularmente durante el Mes del Orgullo, un momento destinado a centrar las voces marginadas y visibilizar a quienes son más comúnmente excluidos. Cuesta creer que siquiera tengamos que explicar por qué esto fue profundamente inapropiado. Una biblioteca - de todos los lugares posibles- debería comprender la importancia de la confianza, la seguridad y la inclusión. Las bibliotecas son de las pocas instituciones públicas que aún quedan donde las personas buscamos refugio, aprendizaje e imaginación. Que este principio básico tenga que ser reiterado a la dirección de la biblioteca es tanto alarmante como inaceptable. En lugar de promover la lectura y la curiosidad, este evento expuso a niños y niñas a la presencia de una fuerza policial militarizada -una institución que nuestra comunidad asocia con trauma, separación y miedo. No hay que ir más allá de los titulares para ver que la Patrulla Fronteriza ha sembrado el caos y el temor entre comunidades inmigrantes, deportando y deteniendo personas sin causa justificada ni juicio, violando la Constitución de EE. UU. y decisiones de la Corte Suprema. Las acciones de la Patrulla Fronteriza han sido tan horribles e inconstitucionales que el condado de El Paso ha firmado dos resoluciones para proteger los derechos de las personas inmigrantes, resoluciones que CBP sigue ignorando. Que la biblioteca haya invitado a cualquier fuerza del orden -pero en especial a la Patrulla Fronteriza- al Centro Comunitario del Chamizal, un barrio 99% hispano, rompe la confianza con las personas que usamos de la biblioteca. Las infancias fueron fotografiados junto a agentes con equipo táctico, y estas imágenes fueron compartidas en redes sociales. Nos preguntamos: ¿Cómo se alinea esto con la misión de una biblioteca pública? ¿Cómo inspira esto a la niñez a leer o a pensar creativamente sobre su futuro? Como comunidad, les pedimos que tomen las siguientes acciones: 1. Hacer un compromiso público de que la Patrulla Fronteriza y otras agencias de orden público no serán invitadas a la biblioteca pública a menos que sea requerido por una orden judicial. 2. Emitir una disculpa pública por el daño causado al permitir que agentes de CBP dirigieran una actividad para infancias. 3. Comprometerse públicamente a que los futuros programas -especialmente los dirigidos a menores- no incluirán actividades de reclutamiento ni presentaciones por parte de fuerzas del orden. 4. Aclarar si se obtuvo consentimiento de madres, padres o tutores antes de fotografiar a estas infancias y compartir dichas imágenes en redes sociales junto a agentes armados. También queremos reiterar que la Patrulla Fronteriza y las fuerzas del orden no deben ser invitadas a espacios que están destinados a ser refugios seguros -particularmente para jóvenes inmigrantes, queer y BIPOC. En un momento en que las escuelas y otras instituciones públicas están siendo cada vez más cooptadas para el reclutamiento policial, las bibliotecas deben resistirse a convertirse en otro brazo del sistema carcelario. No pueden decir que son un espacio seguro si reciben con los brazos abiertos a las mismas fuerzas que muchas personas temen. Les instamos a reflexionar sobre su papel como responsables del cuidado comunitario y de la confianza pública. Este momento no exige neutralidad, sino liderazgo ético. A continuación incluimos enlaces a acciones que otras ciudades han tomado para proteger a sus residentes. Les pedimos que asuman públicamente una postura firme y se aseguren de que esto no vuelva a ocurrir. Respetuosamente solicitamos una respuesta pública a estas preocupaciones dentro de 14 días posteriores a la recepción de esta carta. Creemos que este es un plazo razonable para reconocer las voces de la comunidad y demostrar un compromiso con la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas. Atentamente,

We, the undersigned residents, advocates, and community members, urge the Greene County Sheriff’s Office to immediately terminate its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In October 2024, Greene County quietly amended its existing jail contract to allow ICE to detain immigrants in the local jail. By January 2025, Sheriff Jim Arnott confirmed a formal agreement permitting the detention of up to 300 individuals on ICE’s behalf, with the county receiving over $100 per person, per day. Missouri has no federal ICE detention centers, yet local jails—including Greene County’s—are filling that role with minimal transparency or public oversight. Although ICE may detain individuals with criminal histories, a significant number are brought into custody for civil immigration matters—such as visa overstays, missed court dates, or pending asylum cases. According to federal data, more than 70% of ICE detainees currently held nationwide have no criminal convictions (source). Compounding the lack of transparency, the Greene County Jail’s public roster does not indicate the charges or legal basis for detention. Individuals held for ICE are listed only as arrested by “ICE,” with no additional public information provided about why they are being detained. This practice leaves the public in the dark and raises serious concerns about accountability, due process, and unjust incarceration. This contract effectively turns our local jail into a federal detention site—profiting from immigrant detention while undermining community safety, trust, and dignity

Colorado Springs must take urgent steps to respond to the rise in masked law enforcement, ICE overreach, and the targeting of immigrants and political dissenters, including students and lawful residents. In a February 5th raid of four apartments in Denver and Aurora, ICE destroyed a tenant’s door, ripping the locks off the door handle, entered without a warrant, shot rubber bullets at tenants in their pursuit — terrorizing the entire neighborhood.  ICE is striking fear in the community to justify mass arrests and using local police and the DEA to give cover to a federal deportation agenda. On March 17th, Jeanette Vizguerra—recognized by Time Magazine in 2017 as one of the world's 100 most influential people and known for having no criminal record—was working at a Target store in Denver. As she stepped outside for her first break, she was detained. Vizguerra's vocal advocacy for immigrant rights made her a target, and her experience underscores how those who speak out for justice can face intimidation and efforts to silence them. On June 27th, 32-year-old U.S. citizen, Andrea Velez, was confronted and forcibly taken by armed, masked individuals in Los Angeles. Her family, fearing a kidnapping, contacted the police—only to discover that the men involved were federal immigration agents. These secretive detentions erode public trust and silence dissent.  Every person—citizen or not—deserves to know who is detaining them, and why. The rise of secret policing and disappearances is not just a federal issue; it’s a local emergency. Our city should be a place of safety, not surveillance and fear. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has spent the last few months terrorizing communities across the country. Masked agents have kidnapped people in the streets, ICE has arrested government officials in New York and New Jersey, and even previously sensitive areas like schools and churches are no longer off limits to ICE raids. ICE’s next target? Sporting events. In June, ICE agents requested access to the parking lots at Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. But the team denied ICE entry. The harsh reality is this isn’t just happening in Los Angeles under Trump’s mass deportation agenda. That’s why it's imperative that the 28 other MLB teams in the U.S. follow suit and publicly REJECT ICE from using their stadiums to abduct and detain immigrants. The only way that’ll happen is through a massive, sustained campaign of pressure coming from fans and activists like you, which is why we’re launching a petition to MLB team owners. Now, all you need to do is sign:

We need our New Jersey state legislature to protect our state from the threats from the federal government on our most vulnerable residents and our democracy. Last week's budget cuts threaten food and housing security. Due to the astronomical increase in ICE funding, we anticipate that actions taken by DHS will increase to the level seen in California, including tanks and military being deployed to MacArthur Park. We have elected our legislators to fight for New Jersey and we need them to be able to react urgently to the unprecedented attacks on our state coming from D.C.

Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera, a 23-year-old from Venezuela, came to the U.S. through the CBP One appointment system, a way for asylum-seekers to enter the country. But when he arrived at the processing center, he was targeted for having tattoos, despite having no criminal record, and then deported to Guantánamo Bay. Torture, indefinite detention, and grave human rights abuses have defined the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center for more than two decades. Trump’s decision to revive the infamous detention facilities for migrant detention is cruel. It may even be illegal. And it is undoubtedly costly — with at least $21 million having already been spent by the Pentagon on deportation flights alone. It’s unacceptable, which is why Rep. Rashida Tlaib led 15 of her colleagues in the House of Representatives with a letter to the Trump administration demanding the immediate, permanent closure of Guantánamo — and today, we’re asking you to add your name to the letter. We’ve been vocal in the fight to close Guantánamo for years, so we need to amplify these calls to “Shut. It. Down.” and make our demands impossible to ignore in this critical moment. 

We need to talk about Palantir, Friend: the data-mining giant, co-founded by Republican mega-donor Peter Thiel. After winning a massive $30 million contract with ICE earlier this year, the firm is now helping supercharge Trump’s mass deportation agenda — the very architect of which, Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, owns up to $250,000 in Palantir stock, allowing him to profit while the company builds an Orwellian surveillance system to track people slated for deportation. The scary truth is, Palantir’s ties with the Trump administration go so much deeper. Our personal bank account numbers, medical claims, student debt amounts, and so much more could soon be accessible to the White House if Trump’s nightmare surveillance state succeeds. With the help of Palantir, Trump is reportedly amassing “untold surveillance power” through this invasion of privacy that could soon be weaponized to threaten, persecute, attack, and punish dissidents, political opponents, and people of all ilk. Trump hasn’t been forced to publicly disclose his grand plans for Palantir. But with enough pressure from Washington, that can change. We can do our part today by sending a message to Congress tens of thousands of people strong, demanding they throw roadblocks at Trump’s data collection power grab and protect our personal privacy.

ICE agents—without identification—are detaining people in plain clothes and wearing masks—stoking widespread fear, confusion, and distrust. This is not normal. And it’s not only cowardly, it’s dangerous.  Alarming news reports have already surfaced of bad actors impersonating ICE across the country—kidnapping, assaulting, and scamming people. When ICE agents operate in plain clothes and without visible ID, it creates the perfect cover for abuse. The increased anonymity of ICE agents increases this kind of danger and recklessly endangers everyone.  That’s why members of Congress have introduced legislation, the VISIBLE Act, requiring immigration enforcement officers to display clearly legible identification, prohibiting nonmedical face coverings, and establishing disciplinary procedures for violations. The Trump administration is giving ICE free rein to terrorize communities anonymously, violating our fundamental rights and putting the entire country at risk. It’s the responsibility of Congress to make sure federal agencies operate with transparency, and we need our representatives to know we expect them to make this priority by passing legislation like the VISIBLE Act to hold ICE accountable.  Sign the petition now!

Beginning in May, Avelo became the first commercial airline to operate deportation flights to fly people in ICE custody out of the country. These flights often send people into permanent exile and result in trauma for parents, children, and entire communities. By transporting people targeted for deportation—people who have lived in the United States for years, have families, and have no access to legal support to fight their removal—Avelo is choosing to profit off of a system notorious for human rights violations and lack of due process. There is no excuse for partnering with kidnappers. Avelo must end its cooperation with ICE and refuse to profit from Trump’s inhumane immigration regime—add your name to the petition now.

Sanctuary policies can help prevent the separation of families by limiting the involvement of local law enforcement in federal immigration enforcement actions. By protecting vulnerable populations from deportation, sanctuary cities can help maintain the stability of their communities, keeping families together and preventing disruptions to social and economic structures. Sanctuary policies can help build trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement, allowing for better collaboration on public safety initiatives.  By signing this petition, you agree to supporting local policies that protect undocumented immigrants by limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.