[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
Well good, now that you’re focused on the moment, it’s a perfect time to remind you (or make you aware) that ICE actually murdered many more people than most think, that there are thousands of people “lost in the system” that ICE can’t track and whose lawyers and families can’t find, and that the way the agency operates is a systemic issue that has existed for over a decade, long before the recent escalations.
Now you know the actual scope of your enemy: defunding them isn’t enough, that shit needs to be pulled by the roots and dismantled piece by piece until there’s not a trace of them left. If it’s not done all the way through, it won’t end with Trump (after all it continued operating and killing under Biden). If people only protest the public murders instead of the very existence of ICE and their concentration camp system well… the camps will still be there.
See, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Making sure we’re fighting the same fight, and understanding who the enemy really is.