OMNI
ICE ANTHOLOGY #1
January 25, 2026
Compiled by Dick Bennett
What’s at Stake: The decimation of the US democratic project
by its mistreatment of immigrants. This
OMNI Anthology contains a dozen ways each of us can fight back.
CONTENTS
Abolish ICE BY NATASCHA ELENA UHLMANN
5
Articles Forwarded by Sonny San Juan, Jr. Jan. 24, 2026
Kris Brown.
The cold-blooded killing of Alex
Pretti.”
Devon Lum, et al. NYT Analysis of the Killing.
Jacob Thomas. “DEMAND AN END TO TRUMP'S WAR ON OUR STREETS.”
Amanda Ford. RESISTANCE: video, call 911,
billboards, protest orgs.
Meghnad Bose, et al. Video Analysis.
FCNL.
Brutal Immigration enforcement funding passes.
Gary Wilson. Call for General Strike.
Robert Reich.
“…demand Congress cease new funding for Trump’s mass deportation.”
Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman. Public Citizen.
Tracy
Rosenthal. In Los Angeles, Home Depot Raid.
Sarah
Lazare. In Chicago, “Terrorizing
Chicago’s Working Class.”
Tre Graves. Stop Ice’s Hateful,
Violent Recruitment Ads on Spotify.
TEXTS
A book review and fourteen articles 2019 to
present.
[Protest from 2019 to Present]
“ICE
Agent Alert.”
OR Books <info@orbooks.com>
[Abstract from Google IA] Abolish ICE by Natascha Elena
Uhlmann (2019) is a concise, accessible book that argues for the
dismantling of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Uhlmann, an
immigrant rights activist, presents a case against the agency, highlighting its
role in family separation, abuse in detention centers, and the criminalization
of immigrants, while also connecting it to broader U.S. foreign policy and
historical injustices. The book explains the reasons for abolition and
suggests ways to achieve it, framing the issue as a matter of human rights and systemic
violence rather than a simple policy debate.
Key
themes in the book:
- Critique
of ICE: Details abuses in detention centers, including the
detention of children, and the silencing of activists.
- Historical
context: Argues that ICE's actions are not new but are part of
a long history of U.S. interventionism and exploitation that fuels
migration [US IMPERIALISM]
- Systemic
issues: Connects the criminalization of immigration to white
supremacy and U.S. economic policies, arguing that voting Democrat alone
is insufficient.
- Call to action:
Provides a clear, concise argument for why ICE should be abolished and how
this can be achieved.
About
the author:
Natascha
Elena Uhlmann is a writer and activist from Sonora, Mexico, whose work has
appeared in The Guardian, Truthout, and Teen Vogue.
Masked agents picking up people
charged with no crime is the hallmark of a totalitarian state. That’s why we need to . . .
Abolish ICE
BY NATASCHA ELENA UHLMANN
An impassioned argument by a young
Mexican American woman for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE).
“This book is about abolishing ICE. But it is also about so much
more than that. It is about the women who clean your house, and watch your
kids, and do the invisible labor that makes the world we live in possible. This
book is about violence, and about cruelty. It is about fifteen-year-old girls
who are propositioned by grown men, and ninety-year-old men who leave
everything they’ve ever known behind. It is about being a stranger in your own
home. It is also about building anew.”
[FIGHTING BACK: VIDEO
RECORDING OF ICE VIOLENCE]
Nov 21
ICE Watch activists online training
Forwarded
by Chris Delacruz. Nov 20, 2025.
Hey Dick,
How are you?
I just heard about Chicago immigrant activists
with a group called Protect RP on NPR radio.They are offering an online
training session tomorrow (Nov 21) on Zoom. You can take a look at their
collection of links at https://linktr.ee/protectrp626 or look for them on Facebook.
Here is the description of their training tomorrow:
Join this training 90-minute training from States at the Core, Protect RP, and
Chicago community defense experts on responding to and documenting ICE
activities in your community. ICE Watch is a key strategy being used
by groups across the country to protect their communities against aggressive
activity from federal law enforcement agencies like ICE and Border Patrol.
Whether or not you are part of an established community response network, this
training will share important skills for documenting activity and supporting
neighbors. In addition to covering the basics of ICE Watch, we will discuss new
analysis on ICE operations, rapid response tactics, and safety guidance. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uI_5dMXfTR2l_z5cVe6Uog#/registration
“The cold-blooded killing of Alex Pretti.”
Five Reports Forwarded by
Sonny San Juan. Jan 24,
2026.
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Kris Brown<brady@bradyunited.org> Jan. 24, 2026. Trump’s militarized takeover of Minneapolis has led to another
person being shot and killed. Across the country, thousands of people have
taken to the streets to protest federal agents' brutal and fatal treatment of
Minnesotans. We must condemn Trump’s new MAGA militia – that is gunning down
people on American streets in the name of patriotism – and end federal
agents' armed violence against civilians. Just weeks ago, the nation mourned the public, preventable
killing of Renee Good after she was shot by federal agents after dropping her
child off at school. Today, we are re-living the same pain as violent images
circulate of federal agents shooting and killing a detained civilian on the
streets of Minneapolis. When trigger-happy MAGA extremists have been unleashed in U.S.
cities disguised by face masks and ICE badges, we cannot look away. We must denounce the militarized takeover of the
country and their continued violence against our communities. >> |
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We know this violence against civilians is not isolated, or even
unpredictable. Trump’s deployment of the federal agents across the country
has been wreaking havoc on immigrant communities, rolling out armed
intimidation against his political opposition, and promising impunity from
lawless actions. The dangerous combination of armed extremists and
zero consequences has made gun violence nothing less than
inevitable. The United States is already an outlier when it comes to
civilians harmed in the name of enforcement – but the new era of ICE is more
dangerous than ever before. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security
is intentionally recruiting far-right, racist, Second
Amendment extremists and teaching them the gun lobby’s “shoot-first”
tactics. |
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The Trump administration’s violent anti-immigration campaign has
wrought havoc since its inception: There have been 19 incidents in
which immigration agents opened fire and another 36 incidents in which
agents held bystanders or protesters at gunpoint. At least four people have
been shot observing or documenting immigration raids, and five people have
been shot while driving away from traffic stops or evading an enforcement
action. |
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We must demand accountability for federal agents' brutality
against Americans. Your solidarity is vital as we take on an administration
that is quicker to deny facts and falsify information than to accept
accountability. Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man Ernesto Londoño, Devon Lum, Hamed Aleaziz and Mitch Smith The man, a registered nurse, was an American citizen with no
criminal record, the city police chief said. Videos contradict the federal
government’s description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found. Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis
resident on Saturday, prompting renewed clashes between law enforcement
officers and protesters demanding an end to the Trump administration’s
immigration crackdown. Colleagues and a senior law enforcement official
identified the man who was shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an
intensive-care nurse. Videos analyzed by The New York Times contradict accounts
given by Homeland Security officials about the shooting. They said the man
approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to “massacre”
them. Footage of the encounter shows the man holding a phone in his
hand, not a gun, when agents take him to the ground and shoot him. |
Amanda Ford, DFA AF<info@dfa-af.com>. Jan. 24, 2026.
Federal agents have once again killed a legal observer in broad daylight on the
streets of Minneapolis.
Once again the entire incident was caught on video from many
angles. In the videos, you can see that Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year old ICU
nurse for the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis, was trying to help a
woman who was being physically assaulted by the same masked agents who would
kill him minutes later.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) -- hundreds of miles
away from any U.S. border -- shot him at point blank range while at least 4
agents held him down. Video also contradicts DHS’s claim that Alex had
approached ICE agents with a gun and was about to “massacre” Border Patrol
agents.[1]
[RESISTANCE: video, call 911, billboards, support protest orgs.
Capturing all of it on video is once again proving to be
the single best way to expose ICE lies and make sure Americans know the truth.
The second best way to create a public record that can’t be erased or hidden is
to call 911.
That’s why we’ve put up billboards across Minneapolis
making it clear ICE agents are not above the law. They can be arrested,
prosecuted and go to jail for breaking state laws. ICE really hates these
billboards, because we’re also making sure the millions of Minnesotans who live
in the metro area know how to report illegal ICE activity.
This point is important, so please let me reiterate it.
When ICE breaks the law, the community has a lawful, effective
response. Call 911. Every call is recorded. The local government controls
those records. They cannot be erased, and journalists, attorneys, and
investigators can obtain them. Second only to video recorded at the scene, 911
transcripts provide a critical role in exposing the truth.
ICE relies on anonymity to escape accountability. They rely on
fear to prevent documentation. They rely on silence to rewrite abuse as routine
enforcement. Our campaign attacks that structure directly by turning illegal
conduct into permanent public records that can be scrutinized, investigated,
and prosecuted.
And if an ICE agent is arrested, prosecuted, and convicted
for a state crime, Donald Trump can’t pardon them – adding extra
force to the real threat of accountability that won’t be reversed.
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“CBP Agent Guns Down Minneapolis Nurse: Video Analysis.” Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan
Grim break down video obtained by Drop Site showing CBP’s killing of Alex
Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday.
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Close-up video footage, obtained by Drop Site, shows one
agent push a person to the ground and then deploy a chemical irritant twice on
the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed. Around eight
agents then swarm and wrestle him to the ground. One of the officers then
visibly unholstered his gun and fired around four point-blank gunshots at
Pretti, a Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer.
There are ten gunshots heard in all—at least five of them were fired at Pretti
from a distance, while the person holding the camera shouts, “What the fuck did
you just do?”
Video footage
obtained by Drop Site with slow-motion video analysis of the January 24th
killing of Alex Pretti by a CBP agent.
Another video showing a different angle of the
killing also shows federal agents manhandling Pretti once he’s face down on the
ground, with one officer appearing to strike him three times just before the
gun shots ring out. The angle appears to show one officer approaching Pretti as
he’s pinned to the ground, reaching over Pretti’s body with the officer’s hand
empty and then walking away with a gun in his hand.
More video footage of
the shooting from a separate angle.
The two video angles
placed side-by-side.
Protests against the
presence of federal agents in the Twin Cities area have escalated since the
January 7 killing of Renee Good, who was fatally
shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, while another incident followed a week later when an ICE
officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg. Saturday’s killing of Pretti was
followed by more protests, with video showing federal officers tear-gassing
protesters and observers on the scene.
The Department of
Homeland Security, which oversees both CBP and ICE, alleged the man “approached
US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” and released a
photo of the purported firearm, which appears to be a Sig Sauer Emperor Scorpion.
No video has surfaced showing Pretti approaching federal agents with a
brandished gun. A statement from President Donald Trump
posted from the White House’s official X account said, “This is the gunman’s
gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go…LET OUR ICE
PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB!” Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller alleged that
Pretti was a “domestic terrorist [who] tried to assassinate federal law
enforcement,” despite the fact that Pretti was being held down by four federal
agents when he was shot.
Pretti worked as an
intensive care unit nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital, and he
was a union member with The American Federation of Government Employees.
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Dear Dick, 1-17-26
Donald Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol goons have been let loose in
Minneapolis to create havoc, terrorize communities, and brutalize anyone with
an accent or dark skin. And in
the week since the murder of Renee Good, they only escalated their
campaign of violence and intimidation. Trump
doesn’t want peace. He wants to provoke a backlash to justify an even more
draconian crackdown — and today, Trump reiterated his threat to invoke the
Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy active-duty U.S. military
forces against the American people.
This is a national emergency, and we must take action — peacefully
— to stop it.
We’re launching an urgent effort across all our platforms to demand
Congress cease new funding for Trump’s mass deportation regime unless major
systemic reforms are put in place. With federal funding scheduled to expire at
the end of January, this is the time for Democrats to stand and fight. . . .
Here’s the situation in Congress right now. At the end of last fall’s government
shutdown, Democrats agreed to extend funding for about three months. That
funding expires on January 31, and unless they pass another bill in the next
two weeks, the government will shut down again. That means Democrats
have an opportunity right now to demand real reforms to ICE and Border Patrol —
if they stand strong.
At an absolute minimum, Democrats must refuse to provide any more
funding for Trump’s immigration police unless they:
· Take off their masks.
· Wear IDs.
· Adopt and follow basic standards of professional
policing.
· Ban armed immigration agents from aimlessly
roaming our streets to provoke conflict.
· Investigate and punish agents who kill, beat, or
unlawfully detain people.
Friends, I truly fear that American democracy is at a breaking
point. But I also believe that we can halt and reverse our slide into
authoritarianis. . .Thank you, Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
P..O. Box 9323
Berkeley, CA 94709
[PROTEST THE Killing of Renee Nicole Good.]
Public Citizen <president@citizen.org> 1-8-26. Yesterday, in Minneapolis, a federal agent* murdered a woman — Renee
Nicole Good — by shooting her in the head, multiple times, at point-blank
range, through the window of her car.
There is nothing that can justify the summary execution of Renee Nicole Good,
who was simply acting as a legal observer to ICE raids on her neighbors.
Because of several bystander videos (and the victim’s particular profile), this
killing is getting intense attention. But it is far from the first act of
unjustified violence by the thousands upon thousands of armed thugs terrorizing
communities all across America in pursuit of the Trump regime’s barbaric
immigration “policy.” That includes 32 people who have died in ICE
custody over the past year. For anyone
feeling saddened, sickened, and furious right now, we are right there with you.
. . .
PUBLIC CITIZEN
People in Minneapolis and throughout the country are gathering to mourn the
killing of Renee Nicole Good and to peacefully protest the out-of-control
activities of agencies like ICE and DHS.
We are also calling for an independent investigation into the shooting —
including the unhinged response of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,
which has been so irresponsible that she should be disqualified from remaining
in that position.
Click to add your name now:
The unjustified killing of
Renee Nicole Good — by a federal agent paid with taxpayer dollars, no less — is
a tragedy and a disgrace. Those who knew and loved Renee Nicole Good deserve
justice. And the American people demand an end to the Trump regime’s cruel,
racist, and unlawful assault on immigrant communities. We call for a full-scale
investigation into the shooting of Renee Nicole Good without delay.
Thanks for taking action. For justice,
- Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman,
Co-Presidents of Public Citizen
*His vest is stamped “POLICE: FEDERAL AGENT” —
but there does not appear to be any indication of what agency he is part of, he
is masked, and he left the scene shortly after killing Renee Nicole Good. If
the Trump regime’s immigration “policy” were just, it wouldn’t be conducted
with masked, unidentified, jacked-up thugs.
Donate | Public Citizen | 1600 20th Street NW |
Washington DC 20009 |
“Immigration
Raids At This Home Depot Got More Aggressive But Less Effective” By Tracy Rosenthal. Portside. Popular Resistance.org (11-26-25). Arturo had only ever seen agents at the
border before, never in Los Angeles. But on Friday, June 6, the Department
of Homeland Security descended on a Home Depot near MacArthur Park.
As on any other morning, Arturo had arrived at the store to wait alongside more
than a hundred jornaleros for a day, or even a few hours, of construction work.
He saw people running and heard screams of “la migra” before he laid eyes on
the men in fatigues or understood that they were making arrests. He broke into
a run, following a crowd through the store’s automatic doors. -more-
How
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
By
Sarah Lazare, In These Times. When federal immigration agents
thread through her Chicago neighborhood and circle above her home in
a helicopter, Araceli hides with her husband. “You hear the
whistles,” she says through an interpreter. “You hear the people
yelling, ‘Don’t go out! Stay inside! There’s
immigration here!’ ” Sometimes they are forced to hide
for days. “It’s alarming, it’s not normal, it’s like being in
a crisis,” explains Araceli, who is 55 and originally from
Mexico City, though she has lived in Chicago for 30 years. That means
Araceli often misses work as an apartment cleaner and her husband misses
work. -more-
ICE ads on Spotify? Absolutely not
Tre Graves. Hollywood Democrats, Nov 21, 2025,.
.Dick,
Spotify made a decision that betrays its artists, its listeners,
and the communities that built its platform. The company is running paid ICE
recruitment ads that use phrases like “dangerous illegals” and
urge people to join operations that rip families apart. Spotify defended
this choice as “policy compliant,” but compliance means nothing when the policy
protects hate. The largest audio platform in the world is taking money to
amplify an agency known for cruelty, abuse, and discrimination.
ICE’s record is clear. Investigations have documented hundreds of
cases of violence and sexual abuse inside detention centers, including
incidents involving children and pregnant women. ICE raids have torn apart
neighborhoods, placed U.S. citizens in detention by mistake, and carried out
operations that courts have repeatedly ruled unconstitutional. Spotify knows
this history, and yet it still chose to profit from ICE’s recruitment campaign.
Artists have spoken out with moral clarity. Their voices make it
impossible to pretend this is normal. The multi-platinum pop star, Olivia
Rodrigo, whose songs ICE exploited without permission, warned:
“Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful
propaganda.”
Bad Bunny, one of the most-streamed artists in the world, has been
equally outspoken. He has said he even avoided performing in the U.S.
because “ICE could be outside [my concert]” describing real
fear for his fanbase.
Spotify cannot claim to be a platform for global culture while
taking money to spread ICE propaganda. The company must remove the ads, issue a
public apology, and overhaul its ad rules to block content that promotes
violence or discrimination.
Tell Spotify to drop the ICE ads and stop
spreading hate-filled recruitment.
Spotify is not the first corporation ICE has tried to use for
recruitment. ICE has a long history of working with private companies to expand
its reach, from surveillance partnerships to database access to algorithmic
targeting.
Spotify is ICE’s latest tool, but if public pressure is strong
enough, it can break this pattern.
Tre Graves, Campaign Director, HollywoodDemocrats.com
END ICE
ANTHOLOGY #1
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