Since the start of Donald Trump's second term in 2025, precautions and community organizing have increased in these areas due to brutality and human rights violations. These brigades, as we said at the beginning, hunt, shoot, kill, and confine people in detention centers to be subsequently deported. The goal is to deport 1 million people per year, according to the promises of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alongside Trump. The Washington Post published a report showing that ICE is conducting a "wartime" recruitment, budgeted at $100 million for the year, with a marketing strategy that includes ads targeting people interested in guns, military culture, and patriotic events, using influencers and social media ads with a combat aesthetic and messages like "sacred calling" and "defend the homeland," simulating that this position is a heroic role for the nation in a war with the "other," the immigrant. Meanwhile, after the murder of U.S. white citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an ICE raid, divisions have emerged within the agency over the shooting and the mission in general, and there are concerns internally because experienced agents may not want to carry out the missions. Also, U.S.-born citizens from immigrant families and people who obtained U.S. citizenship are at risk of being detained by ICE for their facial appearance. This situation has angered people, who have confronted ICE agents with snowballs, made noise in the hotels where deportation agents stay, and with taunts and insults. However, a few weeks later, she checked on her job application status and found that she had been officially accepted as a deportation agent without her having taken the offer or without conducting the necessary criminal background checks, as she never signed any sworn statement about not having committed any crime. Gradually, but increasingly, part of society does not want ICE to spread terror and fear in its territories, because, according to them, they are invading their communities with total violence. Solidarity is also shown with massive mobilizations. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz. While people come out to defend the migrant community, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service becomes the machine for deporting and spreading violence in the U.S. Some die in the raids, others in detention centers. Later, he took refuge in a car with some women who also disagreed with his ideas, but did not attack him. Another strategy is to distribute information in different languages about rights and how to react or not respond to what is not mandatory. Image from January 10, 2026, of people participating in a protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE, for its acronym in English), in Pasadena, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. However, it seems that the name has been used without authorization from those directly linked to the Party's legacy. The first month of 2026 is just ending, and we have all these facts regarding policies against migrants, characterized, as we have heard from the voice of President Trump himself, as criminals who must be kicked out of the country. There were hundreds who drove Lang away, while his entourage was a few. Lang ran. The people's response was to prevent the racist pro-ICE activity from taking place where they promised to burn a Quran. The right-wing influencer fled the place with his few followers injured, bruised, and with scrapes on his head. Then they parked, and Jake Lang got out and got into another vehicle. Image: Evan Vucci/Associated Press. In response to the people's reactions of the last few days, President Donald Trump has threatened to use the antiquated Insurrection Act in Minnesota to send federal or even military forces if protests against ICE operations do not cease. However, a great advance in the reaction to injustice can be appreciated, considering that American society was formatted to think individually or only in its family nucleus. Last Saturday, a far-right activist named Jake Lang called for an anti-Islamic, anti-Somali, and pro-ICE demonstration in Minneapolis. They get off in public places like supermarkets, schools, parks, government offices, and start hunting people. In border communities and cities with high immigration numbers, populations have always been cautious about ICE, about "la migra." Part of society came out to defend its own rights and those of migrant neighbors who suffer persecution. Tensions have escalated to the point that federal prosecutors have resigned, and civic and human rights organizations have filed lawsuits alleging constitutional violations. During these last days, as an act of solidarity and defense, images have appeared in different cities of groups carrying the name of the Black Panther Party. This is unbelievable. Many families fear leaving their homes when ICE is active in their cities, and these mutual support networks care for the part of the community at risk of deportation. They take their children to school, buy food and medicine for those who are afraid to go out, among other forms of help. But according to a Washington Post investigation, a detainee claimed to have seen guards hanging Campos. This is the case of Ramon Manera, a U.S. citizen, who was detained at his door on the pretext that he had a foreign accent when speaking. Faced with so many human rights violations and the concrete possibility of losing the place where many people have chosen to live, work, and grow with their families and networks, in areas with more raids, they have begun to organize to protect themselves. In Southern California cities, an alarm system with whistles is usually well-trained when ICE is on the streets. They also use WhatsApp groups to be able to inform where and when "la migra" is in certain places. Then, they are taken to a detention center. By Lorenaliam, from the U.S., for ANRed. This description could show a situation in the mid-70s in some neighborhood in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, or Brazil during military dictatorships. In response, Homeland Security Undersecretary Tricia McLaughlin stated that "the Cuban 'resisted violently against security personnel and continued to attempt to take his own life, and that despite attempts to revive him, he died.'" An Amnesty International report, titled 'Torture and Forced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations in 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Krome, Florida,' conducted after a visit in September 2025, confirms 'the existence of a deliberate system built to punish, dehumanize, and conceal the suffering of detained persons.' Inside, there are people with their faces covered or wearing black sunglasses without any identification. It must be added that it is likely that ICE agents have not passed basic filters to be enabled for these tasks. They didn't even Google her name, where it's easy to find that Laura Jedeed is a journalist and writes critical opinions about ICE and the current government of Donald Trump. If a person wants to be part of ICE, they will not only have an easy entry but will also be given a $50,000 entrance bonus and student debt forgiveness. These are, for now, the only tools they have. 'Where is the supervision?' declared Amy Fischer, director of Refugee and Migrant Rights for Amnesty International USA. Donald Trump has always emphasized that he wants to remove immigrants who 'have committed crimes,' but data shows that around 70 percent of those arrested have no criminal record. We will continue to observe during the year how this conflict continues in the 'land of freedom' that has always been created by immigrant hands. 'These conditions, despicable and nauseating in Alligator Alcatraz reflect a pattern of deliberate neglect conceived to dehumanize and punish the people confined there. In any case, it seems not to matter to the Donald Trump government.' After journalistic investigations, it has been revealed that the members of these brigades have been selected without any criteria or filter. In some cases, their relatives and lawyers report that they have died from negligence. That is why the strategy is to take volunteers with little research and training to carry out the objective without problems. The murder of Renee Nicole Good and its repercussions ICE has existed since March 2003, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Customs Service were merged, in response to the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in 2001, with the objective of improving national and border security in the U.S. 'The only thing he said was that Trump saved his life (because he acquitted him of the charges of participating in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021) and that he was 'a bad boy.' And I think it's the most shameful thing I've ever heard in my life.' Governor Tim Walz has called for calm and criticized federal tactics, while federal authorities, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, defend the presence of agents in the state. The company maintains that it does not know when migration agents arrive, that it can do nothing about it, and that it will not get involved. They called her and summoned her for a 6-minute interview where they asked her basic questions. Generally, the most active people are non-immigrants, supportive neighbors, or children of immigrants born in the U.S. Vans and cars without license plates roam various neighborhoods day and night. The countries where these 32 people who died under ICE custody were born are Ukraine, Honduras, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Vietnam, Haiti, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, China, El Salvador, Jordan, Guatemala, the Philippines, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nicaragua, and Bulgaria. Protesters at Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, on August 17. She sent a resume to see what the recruitment process was like. During the summer, in Los Angeles, the immediate reaction of going out and mobilizing in the streets was seen, just as in New York, San Francisco, and many more cities. In the last few days, Minnesota was the place where the eyes of the whole world were focused, after the filmed and viralized murder of Renee Good, a white U.S. woman who was in the middle of ICE raids. The consequence: ICE grew by 120% after hiring 12,000 new agents and had 220,000 job applications according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Photo: file Paul Ratje (REUTERS). In 2026, without the month of January even ending, there have already been 6 deaths in ICE custody. So, there are chances that there are agents with complaints of violence, abuse, drug problems, weapons, among others. In Arizona, for example, a mobilization was carried out in a The Home Depot store, where ICE has already 3 times deported people who were offering to work in the store's parking lot, a very common custom in the U.S. They beat them, drag them, hurt them, humiliate them, drown them, and sometimes kill them. But no, this portrait reflects what is happening today with the immigrant population in the United States in the hands of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. One of them, Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban, died on January 3 in a center in El Paso, Texas. 'We made it very clear that we do not support him,' said one. In the investigation, they revealed that they live in deplorable, overcrowded conditions, with toilets clogged with fecal matter in the same cells where people sleep, with a shortage of water and food, with limited access to personal hygiene, lights on 24 hours a day, and a lack of privacy, including cameras where they relieve themselves. Agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE). Composed of agents hired without any filter. Image: ICE agents. Then, she received an email to fill out some background check forms, which she never completed. A few days later, they summoned her for a drug test, and she knew she wouldn't pass it because she had consumed cannabis a few days before. Photo: AFP. Also, there is the torture of 'the box,' which is a 60 x 60 centimeter gridded structure where people are locked for punishment for hours with their hands and feet tied. So confirmed journalist Laura Jedeed. These amounts of money come from the package of laws called 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' signed by President Trump in July 2025, which allocates $76,000 million to the migration control service. An article in The Guardian tells that in 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody from convulsions and heart failure, stroke, respiratory failure, tuberculosis, or suicide. They are armed.
