#fireicenoborders

Philadelphia: #OccupyICE continues, July 3, 2018.

Ant Smith: 13 hours strong shutting down the ICE detention center! 13 hours of disrupting DHS, immigration, and police "work". 13 hours of get the fuck outta here. Mass incarceration, the mass kidnapping of black and brown children, the violent deportation has to end, one way or another.

Stephanie Marie: We out here! We need water, umbrellas, ice, bodies! Come to 114 N 8th St, Philadelphia

#OccupyICE Los Angeles shuts down ICE Detention Center in solidarity with migrant workers and families, September 11, 2018.

Four people arrested, two still being held at this time. Jail solidarity is happening at Metropolitan Detention Center.

Free John Parker! Free CJ Fitisimanu ! #AbolishICE

UPDATE 9/12, 9:00 am EDT - They are still being held. The jailers didn't notify them that they could post bail last night, and now they have to wait until later today.

UPDATE 9/12, 12:00 pm EDT - John Parker was just released. We are still waiting for them to #FreeCJFitisimanu!

Maria Montelongo raises her fist at the Families Belong Together rally at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, June 30, 2018. 

In New York City? Come to our first FIRE chapter meeting this Thursday, July 5 at 7pm! 

We’ll gather at the Solidarity Center at 147 W 24th St, 2nd floor 

Raleigh, North Carolina: #AbolishICE contingent in the Raleigh Families Together rally, June 30, 2018.

FIRE: Live from the U.S./Mexico border

The FIRE delegation (Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere) reported live from the U.S./Mexico border to a June 28 Workers World forum in New York City. WWP Secretariat members Sara Flounders and Monica Moorehead commented from NYC. This is a lightly edited transcript.

John Parker: At today’s rally a freelance journalist told me that this area of the Valley experiences some of the highest homelessness and unemployment. This is where some of the first maquiladoras [U.S.-owned, low-paying factories] started across the border in Mexico. There is a long history of repression here, and people are angry and fed up. There is a lot of humidity and heat in the air today, amplified by the heat of the rage of people fed up with the situation.

Shocking things are coming to light, things that happened in previous U.S. administrations. Folks are not going to be willing to have the same old solutions. There’s a lot of talk about “we need to go vote” and sometimes organizers steer things in that direction. But a lot of people, including at this demonstration, won’t accept that. People are calling for the abolition of ICE, but the Democrats are saying they are just going to “reform immigration.” People aren’t going to accept that.

I think one of the reasons our banner was so popular at the protest is that FIRE is making a militant call, including for the abolition of ICE.

Chicago: Huge rally and march against ICE and family detentions, June 30, 2018.

In the last 30 minutes, more than 100 people have mobilized to defend #OccupyICEPHL after police attack, and still growing. Press conference starting now. July 5, 2018

#AbolishICE #FIREiceNoBorders