Trump's Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters -- and How to Fight It

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The response to ICE in Minneapolis and St. Paul was powerful precisely because residents blended tactics of mutual aid, community support, mass mobilization, and militancy.
46% : The city unleashed an oftentimes-inspiring response to the ICE crackdown: mutual aid organizing, confrontational protest, blockades, and strikes in response to brutality set a national example for how to fight back when federal agents descend on a city to kidnap our immigrant neighbors.
43% : These are unabashed authoritarian tactics to chill whole swathes of political activity, the likes of which have a long history in this country, from multiple Red Scares and the deadly COINTELPRO effort last century against Black-liberation struggle, to the mass repression in response to Black Lives Matter uprisings in the last decade.
40% : "Conspiracy" to What? The "conspiracy" in Minneapolis according to the government, involves purported antifa activists acting with the aim of impeding ICE operations and injuring officers.
39% : Demonstrators are accused of building and advocating for the use of shields at protests outside an ICE detention facility -- the sort of protests in which, in Minneapolis and nationwide, federal agents have beaten people and fired rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters directly at heads and bodies.
38% : In March, a Texas jury found eight defendants guilty of terrorism charges for simply being present and wearing black at a protest in which a shooting took place outside ICE's Prairieland Detention Facility in Northern Texas.
38% : In Spokane, Washington, three anti-ICE demonstrators were convicted in May on conspiracy charges for impeding federal officers in a case with similarities to the Minneapolis indictment.
37% : The indictment names no federal officer injuries, and only minor incidents of property damage -- like a protester leaving a dent in an ICE vehicle from kicking it.
36% : The indictment even claims that people tracking ICE vehicles and alerting others to their presence, as agents prowled neighborhoods looking for immigrants to kidnap, is evidence of criminal conspiracy.
36% : That certain protest activities may have indeed impeded ICE in its efforts to ruin lives and whiten the country do not make those activities illegal.
35% : This month, the FBI also raided the homes of numerous Palestine-solidarity activists connected to the University of Michigan, with eight activists indicted on federal charges for allegedly aiming to "intimidate" university officials in protests aimed at ending the school's investment in Israel's genocide.
22% : Donald Trump's Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment on Tuesday announcing hefty charges against 15 anti-fascist protesters for alleged actions taken in response to the brutal U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement surge in Minneapolis earlier this year.

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