r/ICE_Watch

Authoritarians don’t tolerate dissent and resistance, and the Trump regime has used its power to crush and criminalize those on the front lines of opposing their terror. They’ve been particularly aggressive towards those taking on the deportation machine, with hundreds of arrests even as prosecutions have repeatedly failed in the face of video disproving law enforcement’s claims.

These folks have shown bravery and commitment in the face of tyranny, and we need to have their backs. Here’s some ways we can show solidarity.

Members of VC Defensa, a coalition of activists doing ICE watch, rapid response and support for immigrants and refugees in Ventura County, California, have been the target of a long harassment campaign by Homeland Security, with arrests, raids, car rammings and pepper-sprayings. Last week, federal agents raided the homes of three leaders of the organization. They’re continuing their work in spite of the danger, and are now preparing a civil rights lawsuit. 💵 Let’s consider a donation to support their efforts here or to a GoFundMe for a member of their community caught in the machine here. 💵

HELP VC DEFENSA KEEP FIGHTING

Former congressional candidate and journalist Kat Abughazaleh, her field director Andre Martin, Village of Oak Park Trustee Brian Shaw and Democratic ward committeeman Michael Rabbitt go on trial next week after being arrested in a protest at an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois last September. While felony charges have been dropped in what the Broadview protesters claim was an effort to avoid having to hand over grand jury transcripts, they are now having the rare experience of being tried by the federal government for misdemeanors. They are also facing a quarter-million dollars in legal debt. 💵 We can help them meet the burden of taking on Trump’s DoJ in court by donating here. 💵

HELP BROADVIEW PROTESTERS PAY LEGAL FEES

The Spokane 3 are on trial as we speak. They face charges of conspiring to impede or injure federal officers at a protest at an ICE facility that erupted after two community members had been taken by the deportation force last June. Their defense attorneys have argued that while there was civil disobedience as they bravely attempted to prevent the two men from being transported away, Justice Forral, Jac Dalitso Archer and Bajun Dhunjisha Mavalwalla II urged participants to remain peaceful. 📬 We can learn more and get updates on the trial here, and send them a message of support or help spread the word about their case here. 📬

SHARE YOUR SUPPORT

The Prairieland defendants, convicted in March for terrorism over a shooting they insist they were uninvolved with and evidence suggests they had no idea would happen, are getting through their days in prison as they serve and appeal their sentences. Right now, they’re asking for pictures of the outside world for their cells. 📬 If we’re able, we can find addresses and instructions on where to send them in their profiles here. 📬

BRIGHTEN THE DAYS OF THESE DEFENDANTS

Also in today's List:

• Trump’s shady stock market dealings renew interest in a full-government trade ban - tell Congress it’s time
• Phonebank and test different messages with Swing Blue Alliance in June
• We could see final passage of funding for ICE and CBP by the weekend – tell reps no while we can, and share with our networks the damage the GOP agenda is doing to us
• Coalition of progressive DAs pledges to prosecute voter intimidation by ICE – make sure yours is with them
• We’re going to win this election and make sure it doesn’t get stolen - learn how to get plugged into voter protection work TONIGHT at 7:00PM ET or get up to speed on hosting voter registration drives, status checks, poll worker recruitment and other events for Good Trouble Lives On, ALSO at 7:00PM ET

Over the last 24 hours, we’ve learned via local activists and independent journalist Nick Valencia that approximately 20 detainees being held at the notorious Adelanto ICE Processing Center are on a hunger strike. In their press release, they reported already being in poor health and underfed due to staff neglect, and are demanding due process, bond reform, improved conditions, adequate medical and mental health care, decent food, accountability for deaths at the facility and the right to organize and communicate.

At least four people - Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, Alberto Gutierrez Reyes and Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano - have died while being held at this GEO Group-run detention camp in San Bernadino County, California since September, with multiple accusations of staff denying folks necessary medical care. Detainees have reported physical and sexual abuse, said they’ve been refused a change of clothes, underwear or towels, and advocates have reported inadequate access to clean food and water and other unsafe and unsanitary conditions. It’s been the subject of multiple federal investigations and civil rights lawsuits, and the California Attorney General’s office has found staffing has failed to keep up with the growing number of detainees.

Families of migrants held at Adelanto and advocates are holding a virtual press conference tomorrow, May 20th, at 10AM ET/7AM PT. We’re being asked to help get more coverage of this hunger strike and detainees’ demand for the center to be shut down. Let’s do our part! We can reach out to local outlets to urge them to cover this protest, such as:

·       Los Angeles Times here or at tips@latimes.com

·       CalMatters at 916-502-9986 or tips@calmatters.org

·       KCAL (CBS affiliate) here, at kcalkcbsdesk@cbs.com or at 818-221-2222

·       KNBC (NBC affiliate) here

·       KMEX (Univision affiliate) here

·       KABC (ABC affiliate) here or at 877-777-6397

·       KVEA (local Telemundo affiliate) here

AOC is US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) - May 8, 2026. Here’s the full 5-minutes on YouTube: We need to Abolish ICE. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (YouTube)

From the description: We need to abolish ICE. What does it cost our humanity to look the other way when women, children, and young men of promise are ripped off the street and disappeared? What does it cost us as a society to normalize looking the other way to such barbarism?

Here are the latest r/EyesOnIce posts with: A O C ~:~ Abolish ICE ~:~ Disappeared ~:~ Children ~:~ Cruelty ~:~ Stephen Miller

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What is it costing us — as Human Beings and as a Society — to look the other way, when Women, and Children, and innocent People, and young Men of promise, are ripped off the street, and thrown into a van, and disappeared, and you never see them again?

There's what that costs them. But think about what it costs you, to look the other way.

What does it cost us, as a Society that starts to normalize looking the other way?

Then we start looking the other way, as Women bleed-out in parking lots in States that have banned abortion.

We start looking the other way, as VRA Districts start to get stripped out of our Congress.

We start looking the other way, as the Free Press becomes consumed and intimidated by the very Powers that they exist to check.

What does it cost us — and you, as a Human Being — to look the other way?

And so, there's the economic cost. Your healthcare is going up. Long-term care for our Parents and Grandparents are gonna skyrocket. It's gonna cost us. It's already costing us.

And then there’s, what does it cost our Soul? And that, you know, in a political context, People think that that's naive flowery talk. I don't think it is. Because what is all of this for, if it is not to live a dignified Life, in a Community and Country of integrity?

- US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (May 2026)

For clarification, yes, multiple US citizens were illegally zip tied and detained by ICE during the raid.

L.A. TACO - May 18, 2026. If you’d like to donate to VCDefensa: vcdefensa.org/donate

Here’s the video on:

* L.A. TACO’s website (article + video): Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin in California ICE Detention Centers as Conditions Worsen - May 18, 2026 (L.A. TACO website)

* YouTube: Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin in California ICE Detention Centers as Conditions Worsen - L.A. TACO - May 18, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description:

Today is Monday, May 18th, Day 347, and these are your updates on the ICE siege, which, yes, is still ongoing.

Less than a week after ICE raided the homes of people associated with VCDefensa, the community watch group that’s been legally observing and warning their communities of ICE’s presence in the 805 area s, ICE is now heavily targeting those areas, beginning with Oxnard, and taking people from their vehicles.

The attack on VCDefensa comes days after the White House published Trump’s “Counterterrorism Strategy,” in which he includes “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists” as a threat to the U.S.

Trump declares that Americans who oppose his fascist administration will face a very fascist response, writing, “We Will Find You, and We Will Kill You.”

To do that, Trump is using Palantir’s advanced AI surveillance firm to gather data on all Americans, including the IRS, Health and Human Services, DHS, and other agencies, to centralize, compile, and create a mass database that can easily track people in the U.S., including its citizens.

In 2026 the total is at least 37 people, the recorded list of those who have died in ICE/CBP custody, shortly after release, or in enforcement operations includes Keith Porter Jr. (shot by an off-duty agent on New Year's Eve), Geraldo Lunas Campos (ruled a homicide), Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Luis Beltrán Yánez-Cruz, Parady La, Heber Sánchez Domínguez, Victor Manuel Díaz, Lorth Sim, Jairo Garcia-Hernandez, Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, Emmanuel Clifford Damas, Daphne Michel (died following a "medical" release), Nurul Amin Shah Alam (the blind refugee abandoned in Buffalo), Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, Serafín García, Mariana Torres, Dr. Linda Davis (a special education teacher killed in a crash by a man fleeing an ICE traffic stop), Mohammed Nazeer Paktiawal (died in ICE custody), Thongsy Southakone (died in a hospital shortly after a medical release), two unidentified individuals (killed in a vehicle rollover during a high-speed chase in Hidalgo County), Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi (died of cardiac arrest in Mississippi), Royer Perez-Jimenez (a 19-year-old found unresponsive in Florida), José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano (died at the Adelanto Detention Center), Tuan Van Bui (died on April 1 at the Miami Correctional Center), Samuel Omondi (died April 8 following a medical emergency in a Nevada facility), Elena Vázquez-Rojas (died April 9 after collapsing during processing in Arizona), an unidentified 24-year-old man (died April 10 in a South Texas hospital after being transferred from a CBP processing center), Alejandro Cabrera Clemente (died April 11 in ICE custody), Aled Carbonell Betancourt (died April 12 in ICE custody), Denny Adan Gonzalez (died April 28 in a Georgia detention center), an unidentified 14-year-old boy (killed in a high-speed pursuit in Maverick County when the vehicle he was in crashed while fleeing Border Patrol), an unidentified 40-year-old Guatemalan man (died May 2 after being found unresponsive in a Rio Grande Valley processing center), an unidentified woman (killed in early May during a high-speed pursuit involving Border Patrol in Laredo, Texas), Kevin González (an 18-year-old who died May 10 shortly after his parents were released from ICE custody to see him), and an unidentified 31-year-old man (died May 12 in ICE custody in Louisiana).

If there are more not on this list, please let me know in the comments and I will add them.

Stay safe and FUCK ICE!

No better place to call home.