01/15/2026
On January 7th, 2026, ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle exercising her right to protest near Portland Avenue and East 32nd Street in Minneapolis. This murder occurred less than a mile from where George Floyd lost his life to police brutality. Good’s right to protest and Floyd’s right to life were both stomped on by brutality disguised as ordinary law enforcement. This attack was an infringement upon the basic principles of life and liberty.
Days prior on New Year’s Eve, another devastating marker in this pattern of unchecked ICE violence resulted in the killing of Keith Porter in Northridge, a suburb of Los Angeles. Porter, a Black man, was shot and killed during an encounter with off-duty ICE agents who claimed enforcement authority but exercised lethal force.
Porter’s murder reinforces how immigration policing collapses into racialized state violence. His killing, like so many others, was quickly buried under bureaucratic justifications and internal reviews that prioritized agency self-protection over truth or accountability. Porter was not afforded dignity, due process, or care – only the full weight of an enforcement apparatus trained to escalate and immunized from consequence. This makes clear that ICE’s mandate does not merely target immigration status: it also endangers Black lives and expands a policing regime where death is treated as collateral rather than a profound moral and political failure.
ICE agents are operating with a direct license to racially profile and an apparent license to kill. This is a grave failure of federal accountability and a continuation of a trajectory in which Black, Brown, Immigrant, and other racialized communities bear the barrel of the gun of militarized policy. Aggressive enforcement regimes are funded while the working class keeps asking for housing stability, healthcare access, community-based violence prevention, and genuine public safety – a clear indication that fiscal decisions are not morally neutral. What we witnessed is not an isolated tragedy but the predictable outcome of an immigration apparatus that has been over funded, under-scrutinized, and structurally insulated from local democratic control.
Read our full statement on Medium: https://medium.com//ice-violence-is-state-violence-afrosoc-dsa-condemns-violence-by-ice-in-minneapolis-and-beyond-faf4d089370c
