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WASHINGTON — Today, peaceful protests and vigils kicked off the ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action to honor the lives lost at the hands of ICE, demand accountability, and make visible the human cost of this administration’s actions. The nonviolent, lawful, and community-led actions will continue tomorrow, Sunday, January 11, culminating in over 1,000 events throughout the weekend. You can find the list of events here. ICE Out For Good is a broad, national coalition, including Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Voto Latino, United We Dream, 50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign of the Not Above the Law coalition, and partner organizations across the country. All actions under the ICE Out For Good banner are grounded in moral witness, public accountability, and collective care. We remain committed to nonviolent organizing. See coverage below from across the country on the first day of the ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action: The Guardian: More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Portland USA Today: Where are ICE protests taking place this weekend? Here's what to know Axios: ICE and Border Patrol shootings spark hundreds of weekend vigils and protests CT Insider: Connecticut holds ICE protests Saturday in response to Renee Good shooting death Knoxville News Sentinel: Hundreds gather in Knoxville to protest ICE shooting in Minneapolis CBS Philadelphia: Philadelphia protesters want "ICE out for Good" after videos show agent killing woman in Minnesota ABC11: North Carolina cities join nationwide anti-ICE protests after Minneapolis, Portland shootings ABC7: ICE Out For Good rally in Sarasota FOX5: Virginia protest against ICE as new video of MN shooting emerges TCPalm: Group gathers in Stuart, Florida for 'ICE Out For Good' protest AZ Central: Renee Good Nicole shooting spurs nationwide 'ICE out for Good' protests Leaders from the partner organizations issued the following statements: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION “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.” – Deirdre Schifeling, Chief Political and Advocacy Officer, ACLU INDIVISIBLE “Renee Nicole Good should be alive today. Her death has sparked grief and outrage across the country as the latest horrific incident in a mounting toll of enormous harm and horror caused by ICE. This weekend, people all over are coming together not just to mourn the lives lost to ICE violence, but to confront a pattern of harm that has torn families apart and terrorized our communities. We demand justice for Renee, ICE out of our communities, and action from our elected leaders. Enough is enough." – Leah Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of Indivisible POPULAR DEMOCRACY “Every person ICE has killed had a family, a community, and a life that mattered. Pouring billions of public dollars into a rogue enforcement agency that terrorizes our communities while denying people health care, housing, food security, and education is morally indefensible and profoundly reckless. This cruelty flows directly from the agenda of fear and punishment pushed by extremists like ​​Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, embraced and strengthened by the President himself. We demand accountability for the killing of Renee Nicole Good and for the countless lives lost at the hands of ICE. The lesson is clear: this violence will not stop until ICE is abolished.” — DaMareo Cooper, Executive Director, Popular Democracy 50501 "This weekend's actions are prompted most immediately by the tragic death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and her murder at the hands of ICE is unspeakable. We will uplift her this weekend, and we will uplift all those in our communities whom ICE has targeted and brutalized, from Silverio Gonzales to Marimar Martinez to all of those people in marginalized communities whose names must not be forgotten. This is our moment. We must conjure the souls of our brave ancestors and remember we stand on the shoulders of giants." – Sarah Parker, 50501 Spokesperson and Executive Director, Voices of Florida Fund MOVEON CIVIC ACTION “For a full year, Trump’s masked agents have been abducting people off the streets, raiding schools, libraries, and churches. As ICE’s unnecessary, reckless, and escalatory deployment goes unchecked, the killing of civilians will only continue. None of us want to live in a country where federal agents with guns are lurking and inciting violence at schools and in our communities. This is why MoveOn members will be uniting once again this weekend in peaceful, nonviolent, powerful protests in stark contrast to the unrepentant, ruthless violence of this administration.” – Katie Bethell, MoveOn Civic Action Executive Director PUBLIC CITIZEN, NOT ABOVE THE LAW COALITION “Masked, power-hungry federal agents are treating the streets of America like the Wild West. The intimidation tactics, the deadly attacks against our communities and the brazen lawlessness by immigration enforcement must stop now. As ICE and border patrol agents commandeer neighborhoods, people in detention centers, in ICE custody or simply in their own personal vehicles fear for their lives. This militarization of immigration enforcement is endangering everyone. What’s more alarming is the Department of Homeland Security, the vice president and president of the United States are endorsing ICE and CBP’s violent behavior. The Trump Administration must stop ICE deployment now, we must deeply investigate this unjust killing, and the American people must file peacefully into the streets to resist this illegal, overreaching use of government power. We must stand together to effectively defend ourselves.” – Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen and co-chair of the Not Above the Law Coalition which formed the Disappeared in America Campaign. NDLON “We immigrants know what authoritarian violence is. Many of us come from countries where we had to endure the kind of hatred and terror we saw in Minneapolis. Many of us fled brutal regimes to seek survival here.” “We grieve for Renee Nicole Good and all the victims of this Administration's shameful and senseless brutality — the growing list of the dead and injured. But we are not just sorrowful. We are defiant. We, the people, will stand together against all efforts to dehumanize us, polarize us, terrorize us and kill us.” “They want to provoke us into responding to violence with violence, to meet hate with hate. They are desperate to justify their cruelty with ever more brutality.” “But we immigrants know how to confront authoritarianism. We will resist the government's attacks by building community, by documenting atrocities, by protesting nonviolently, by showing kindness and solidarity at all times. We will meet them in the streets, in the courts, at the day labor corners. We will meet them everywhere. And we will win.” “We are not afraid or discouraged. And we will not be defeated. The more we stand together as a community of determination and love, the harder it will be for them to divide and destroy us.” – Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network THE WORKERS CIRCLE “The tragic killing of Renee Good — a U.S. citizen exercising her fundamental rights — by a federal ICE agent is not just a catastrophic loss for her family and community; it is a stark warning to all of us about where unchecked power leads. This administration’s expanding use of force against our neighbors erodes the very rights and safety that define who we are as a nation. As a Jewish organization, we know what unchecked power has done in the past. We must not let that take root here, today. Now, more than ever, we must demand transparency, accountability, and policies that protect human life, human dignity and civil liberties for everyone. Allowing federal forces to act without independent oversight undermines justice and threatens the safety of us all.” – Ann Toback, CEO, The Workers Circle UNITED WE DREAM “Using your first amendment rights to speak out and show up for your neighbors during the growing anti-immigrant violence in our cities should be a protected constitutional right, not a death sentence. This brutal killing is a horrifying reminder of the threat armed forces pose to our collective safety, especially at a time when local, state and federal officials have consistently called on the federal government to invest in the resources working families truly need —health care, housing, access to food— instead of indiscriminate terror in our communities. Billions poured into immigration raids for the sake of ripping apart communities in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis does nothing but lead to irreparable damage, violence and death. In 2025 alone, 32 people died in immigration detention. We demand an immediate end to this cruelty and for elected leaders at every level to speak out in defense of immigrant communities and our shared safety.” – United We Dream VOTO LATINO “Under Donald Trump’s leadership and Kristi Noem’s direction of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE has become more aggressive, more reckless, and more deadly — with 2025 marking its deadliest year in two decades. The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, is not an isolated failure but the predictable outcome of a political agenda that rewards force and dehumanization.” “Trump and Noem have normalized the erosion of constitutional rights, framing brutality as enforcement and accountability as weakness. Their rhetoric and policies have sent a clear message down the chain of command: push limits, ignore safeguards, and expect protection from consequences. This is not about partisan politics — it is about defending human life and the rule of law. We stand with Renee Nicole Good’s family and with communities nationwide to demand accountability and to stop the unchecked enforcement born of Trump and Noem’s leadership before more lives are lost.” – Voto Latino

MINNEAPOLIS — Today, ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, while she was in her car in a south Minneapolis neighborhood. The shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota” and sent over 2,000 federal immigration officers into the state. The ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota strongly condemn this killing, and urge federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota as soon as possible and to halt these massive escalations across the country immediately. “We are devastated by the news that ICE killed a woman this morning in Minneapolis. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end this operation before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed,” said Deepinder Mayell, executive director of ACLU of Minnesota. “Since the launch of ‘Operation Metro Surge’ we have witnessed a remarkable string of unlawful activity targeting Minnesota communities and Minnesota values — this affects us all. We will keep observing, documenting, and fighting for the rights of all Minnesotans.” In July 2025, Congress voted to add an unprecedented $170 billion to the Trump administration’s already massive budget for immigration enforcement, which has funded these indiscriminate raids. Congress is now negotiating the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for the coming year which would allocate even more funding to turbocharge the Trump administration’s draconian immigration agenda. “For months, the Trump administration has been deploying reckless, heavily armed agents into our communities and encouraging them to commit horrifying abuses with impunity, and, today, we are seeing the devastating and predictable consequences,” said Naureen Shah, director of policy and government affairs at ACLU. “Congress must rein ICE in before what happened in Minneapolis today happens somewhere else tomorrow. That means, at a minimum, opposing a Homeland Security budget that supports the growing lawlessness of this agency.” On December 17, 2025, the ACLU of Minnesota and its partners filed Tincher v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging ICE violence and misconduct towards Minnesotans exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble, observe, and protest federal agents’ immigration enforcement activities in our streets.

SAN FRANCISCO — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreed yesterday to provide immediate medical care for two individuals being held in the California City Detention Facility, after the individuals filed their petition for emergency relief. The agreement was entered as a court order by the federal judge in San Francisco overseeing the case. Earlier this month, Yuri Roque Campos and Fernando Viera Reyes filed the motion seeking medical care on an emergency basis after medical staff at the facility ignored their worsening health issues. A medical expert previously warned in a sworn declaration that any delays in medical care would lead to suffering and even possible death. The duo are represented by the Prison Law Office, Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, and are part of an ongoing class-action lawsuit challenging the abusive conditions in the California City Detention Facility, California’s largest immigration detention facility. Quotes from co-counsel are as follows: “While we’re relieved that Mr. Roque Campos and Mr. Viera Reyes will finally receive the medical care they urgently need, ICE should have never denied them adequate medical care in the first place,” said Kyle Virgien, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. “Many more people remain at the detention facility, facing the same inhumane conditions that put these two men’s lives in jeopardy. We will continue to fight to ensure all people detained at the California City Detention Facility receive the medical care that they urgently need.” “It should not take a team of lawyers and a federal judge’s attention to ensure that people in ICE’s custody have access to adequate medical care when facing life-threatening medical issues,” said Cody Harris, partner at Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP. “We are relieved that our motion spurred the government to act after months of neglect. We now turn our attention to ensuring that the conditions and medical care at California City comply with the law.” “Yuri Roque Campos and Fernando Viera Reyes should not have had to wait months to get the medical care ICE knew they needed the moment they arrived at the facility,” said Tess Borden, supervising staff attorney at the Prison Law Office. “We’re not stopping with this win. We’ll continue to work to ensure that they— and everyone detained at California City — receive the medical care they need and are entitled to under the law.” The order is online here.  

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal court in California has ruled that a Trump administration policy that seeks to end bond eligibility for thousands of immigrants is unlawful and again declared that all members of the nationwide class are eligible for bond hearings. The ruling, issued late last week, clarifies the government’s obligation after weeks of immigration judges and government attorneys continuing to deny bond hearings to class members. In explaining why she was issuing the clarifying order, U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes of Central California pointed to evidence submitted demonstrating the government’s disregard of her summary judgment orders issued late November. She noted confusion about the effect and nature of the court’s orders and how troubling it was that the government specifically directed immigration judges to ignore those orders. Because of this, the judge issued a final judgment on behalf of the nationwide class, declaring the rights of class members and setting aside the Department of Homeland Security’s unlawful policy. The order stems from a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic. In July 2025, DHS and the Department of Justice announced a new policy, declaring that any noncitizen who entered without inspection is categorically subject to mandatory detention and thus not eligible to seek release on bond during their removal proceedings. This policy upends decades of prior practice that had been consistent with due process. As a result, since July, thousands of people have been jailed indefinitely with no opportunity for a bond hearing while their immigration cases proceed for months or years. While over 220 judges in hundreds of cases across the country have declared the government’s new detention policy to be contrary to immigration law and the Constitution, the vast majority of people have not been able to get bond hearings. The district court in this case certified a nationwide class last month and declared that all class members had been unlawfully subject to mandatory detention and should instead have access to a bond hearing. However, despite that court’s order, the government took the position that it was not bound by the declaratory judgment — forcing people to continue filing habeas petitions in district courts to vindicate their rights. Plaintiffs in this case quickly went back to the district court, which rejected the government’s arguments and issued a final judgment affirming that all class members are eligible for bond and vacating the DHS memo. The following is reaction to the ruling: “For months, the government’s new no-bond policy has upended the lives of countless people as this administration uses mandatory detention to punish and coerce people into self-deportation,” said My Khanh Ngo, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “The court’s order reaffirms our class members’ rights and sends a message that this administration must abide by legal pronouncements.” “This order is critical to respond to the misinformation that immigration judges across the country have been relying on to justify denying bond hearings,” said Matt Adams, legal director for NWIRP. “This makes clear that the law requires they provide bond hearings to our class members, so they may have the opportunity to return to their families, homes and jobs.” The order granting the motion to reconsider is here and the amended order granting class certification and summary judgment is here. The final judgment is here.