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Distressed red-and-teal collage juxtaposing a Prairieland Detention Center facade and two hooded figures with a stack of activist zine covers, including "Taking the Offensive" and "The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide."
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562 Years for Showing Up: The Prairieland Sentences and the War the State Is Waging Against the Left

Fifteen people connected to a July 4, 2025 protest at a Texas ICE detention center have been sentenced to a combined 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence ever given to a group of political defendants. Autumn Hill, one of three trans defendants, gives her first jailhouse interview.

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August 4, 2026
Exterior view of the Aurora ICE Processing Center detention facility showing fencing and security infrastructure
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A Corporate Guard Shot a Protester at an ICE Facility — and the Private Prison Industry Barely Flinched

GEO Group employee Brandon Booth shot Emma Landis, 22, in the back as she walked away from a protest at Aurora ICE Processing Center. He told police he meant to 'scare' her. The private prison industry calls it an individual incident.

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August 3, 2026
Crowd of protesters with signs and banners demonstrating against ICE in New York City
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'No More ICE Murders': Brooklyn Takes the Fight to the Metropolitan Detention Center

Community members gathered outside Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center under the banner 'No more ICE murders,' naming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Guerrero, and Juan Coronilla Duran as organizers demanded an end to ICE violence and the release of 200+ detained immigrants.

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July 28, 2026
Woman embracing another person at a candlelit vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston
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'ICE Out': Over 330 Cities Demand Justice for the Dead as Federal Killings Accelerate Under Trump

On July 25, over 330 communities held vigils and protests honoring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Guerrero, killed by ICE earlier in July, and the 75+ people who have died at the hands of ICE since January 2025.

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July 28, 2026
Protesters gather on a bridge in Houston demanding prosecution of ICE agents after fatal shootings
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550+ Assault Charges, Countless Lies: Exposing ICE's Campaign of Fabricated Violence

A New York Times investigation found the Trump administration filed assault charges against more than 550 people caught in its immigration dragnet. Nearly half the resolved cases collapsed — agents destroyed evidence, lied in court, and attacked protesters. Meanwhile, ICE kills with impunity as the FBI is pulled from investigations.

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July 20, 2026
Stadium workers celebrating after authorizing a strike at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles during World Cup preparations
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The Deportation Plane and the Strike Line: How World Cup Workers Are Fighting the Carceral State

Workers at World Cup venues are striking over poverty wages and the threat of ICE presence — while FIFA flies national teams on the same planes used to deport Venezuelans to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The tournament's glossy image collides with the carceral state beneath it.

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July 20, 2026
Black smoke rises from an incendiary device detonated outside 26 Federal Plaza federal building in Lower Manhattan
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Federal Plaza Burns: When the Voice of the People Is Ignored, the People Strike Back

A man described as a known anti-ICE activist set off an incendiary device outside the federal building housing ICE offices and immigration courts in Manhattan. The act is the latest flashpoint in escalating tensions over the Trump administration's immigration enforcement apparatus.

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July 20, 2026
Crowd of protesters holding signs against ICE in Biddeford, Maine after a fatal shooting by immigration agents
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ICE Kills Again: Two Fatal Shootings in One Week, a Policy Halted Overnight, and a President Who Demands More

ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine within six days. Neither was the target of their operation. DHS halted traffic stop arrests. Trump overturned the halt within 24 hours. Eleven people have been killed by immigration agents since January.

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July 14, 2026
Protesters holding signs outside the fenced gates of the Hudson Correctional Facility
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$529 Million for Cages: ICE's New Colorado Detention Center and the Private Prison Industry That Profits From Human Suffering

The GEO Group — a private prison corporation with a history of slave labor, medical neglect, and abuse — signed a $528.6 million contract to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado as a 1,188-bed ICE detention center. The acting ICE director is a former GEO executive. Colorado's detention capacity will nearly double to 2,720 beds.

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July 14, 2026
Scene where ICE agents murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, taped off with crime scene tape.
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ICE Agents Kill an Innocent Man in Houston — And Nobody in Power Seems to Care

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction worker who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years, was shot dead by ICE agents during a traffic stop in Houston. He was not their intended target. DHS claims he 'weaponized his vehicle' — the same excuse used in at least four other immigration shooting deaths.

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July 10, 2026
Group of people holding hand-lettered signs supporting the Prairieland defendants outside a federal courthouse building in Fort Worth, Texas
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450 Years for Solidarity: The Prairieland Sentences That Expose America's Slide Into Authoritarianism

Eight people who attended a July 4 protest at the Prairieland ICE detention center have been sentenced to a combined 450 years in federal prison — the first successful use of terrorism charges against alleged antifa members in U.S. history.

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July 2, 2026
Protesters facing federal law enforcement outside ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon with crowds and police vehicles
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ICE Raids, State Violence, and Community Resistance in Oregon: How Federal Enforcement Came to Main Street

ICE agents in Oregon were ordered to meet daily arrest quotas, used unreliable surveillance apps to target people, and detained individuals with legal status — including in Woodburn, where officers smashed a farmworker van's windows and detained seven people. A federal judge restricted warrantless arrests, but enforcement continues. This is federal violence hitting Main Street.

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June 20, 2026
ICE agents in tactical gear restraining a protester on the ground outside a detention facility at night
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The Siege of Delaney Hall: A Week of Clashes, Families in Agony, and the Machine That Crushes Protest

For a week, protesters have faced off against heavily armed ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ, in some of the most intense immigration enforcement confrontations in recent history. A senator was gassed. A protester was Tased on train tracks. Families were turned away. Pro-Trump counter-protesters arrived to cheer the agents on.

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May 30, 2026
Silhouette of a person visible through a window behind a razor-wire fence, with HUNGER STRIKE projected above him.
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Starving for Dignity: The Hunger Strike Inside Delaney Hall and the Wall of Silence ICE Built Around It

Between 300 and 400 detainees at Delaney Hall, a GEO Group-run ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have entered their second week of a hunger and labor strike over worm-infested food, no air conditioning, untreated illness, and the denial of medical care to pregnant women — including one who miscarried alone inside the facility. A sitting U.S. senator was pepper-sprayed trying to enter. The governor was turned away. DHS insists everything is fine.

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May 30, 2026