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Trump’s Operation Metro Surge was a direct attack on our union.

In a few short years, “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee.

One year ago today, Donald Trump launched a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. intended to soft-launch martial law and pacify a city with a deep revolutionary history.

Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal of 2,000 arrests per day.

He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

The government isolates each killing and blames each victim. The movement joins the names together, exposes the lies and builds the power to stop the killings.

Sunday’s rally came after months of labor solidarity efforts with detainees, who continue to face retaliation.

Minnesota workers and youth faced down Operation Metro Surge in the streets. They kept their neighbors housed and fed. They watched ICE vehicles, sounded alarms and stood in the way.

Cancer patients, pregnant women and people with life-threatening chronic conditions were all denied adequate medical care, according to medical records and court documents reviewed by The City Reporter.

The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.

Across the United States, an intense fight is raging against collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration’s rogue “law enforcement” arm.

The detention center consists of five massive tent structures on the site of a former World War II detention camp for Japanese Americans at Fort Bliss.

The government won on most of its charges, including convicting defendants for moving a box of radical zines.

Immigration Agents Mimic Past U.S. Dealers of Death.

With a record number of detainees and less oversight, migrant detention centers are on the brink of failure.

Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge, federal judges in Minnesota have repeatedly ruled—hundreds of times—that immigration agents illegally arrested and detained people and must release them.

People are rejecting this invading force en masse, asserting in the streets that an attack against one is an attack against all.

Timo Al-Farooq argues that Trump’s fascism is neither uniquely American nor merely imported, but a convergence of the U.S.’s own racial-terror history and a long-standing admiration for Nazi ideology and aesthetics.

Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.