Stop ICE’s Aggressive Attacks on Immigrants, Citizens, and Children (UPDATED 5/28)

The Trump administration has continually attacked immigrant communities across the country with aggressive ICE raids, abusive and inhumane detention facilities, and targeted attacks on cities and minority groups to create fear and silence opposition.

• Detainees at ICE facilities have been subjected to inhumane conditions, abuse, and even CIA-style torture. 510 identifiable human rights violations have been reported, including sexual assault, medical negligence, and mistreatment of children and pregnant people. Detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, a privately-run facility, are now on a hunger and labor strike in protest; congressional representatives and advocates were pepper sprayed while trying to investigate the conditions.

• Children have been caught up in aggressive ICE raids, separated from their families, and detained in unsanitary detention centers where many have suffered from severe illnesses. ICE agents raided the Dilley detention camp in Texas to confiscate letters written by children detailing the horrific living conditions and abuse.

• ICE agents have used indiscriminate violence against legal observers, peaceful protesters, and bystanders. In Minnesota, they murdered U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti in broad daylight, while an off-duty ICE agent killed Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles. ICE leadership has dismissed these attacks as “self-defense” despite clear video evidence to the contrary, and the FBI has targeted the victims for investigation instead of the agents.

• Trump has launched targeted attacks on Democratic-led cities — Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, and New Orleans — and on specific immigrant populations, like the Somali community in Minnesota.

• The Trump administration has paused green cards and citizenship applications for people from 19 countries and has canceled citizenship ceremonies for immigrants around the country.

• Hundreds of U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained and mistreated by federal agents, often as a result of racial profiling.

• ICE is using a number of privacy-violating surveillance tools and facial recognition spyware to hack phones, monitor a person’s social media, and use databases to profile and track individuals. Federal and local law enforcement has also used Flock Safety’s license plate tracking data to surveil protestors and immigrants.

These increasingly grotesque, coercive, and illegal policies are glaring indicators of rising authoritarianism in America. Demand your representatives push back against these escalating attacks on human rights.