Joint Statement on ICE Violence in Minneapolis and Portland
ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN ICE VIOLENCE AND DEMAND AN END TO FEDERAL OVERREACH IN OREGON
We are outraged. We are grieving. And we are clear.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr. by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles, the shooting of Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras involving federal immigration agents in Portland just one day later, and Silverio Villegas González killed just a few months ago in Chicago is not coincidence or tragedy without cause. This is the inevitable result of violent systems designed to control, punish, and dispose of Black, Brown, and immigrant lives. We are actively seeing what happens when an authoritarian regime runs rampant and without regard to basic humanity.
We are abolitionist organizations. We unapologetically call for the abolition of ICE and end the federal overreach in Oregon. These systems were never created to protect us. They were built to surveil, cage, deport, and kill our people. From slavery patrols to modern immigration enforcement, state violence has always been a tool to enforce racial and economic hierarchy in this country.
ICE is an extension of the prison-industrial complex. It is an armed, militarized force operating with impunity in our communities. Its presence does not create safety. It creates terror. It makes our neighborhoods more dangerous. And it places Black immigrants, refugees, and undocumented people directly in the crosshairs of state violence.
Let us be clear: justice is not punishment. Justice is not incarceration. Justice is not deportation. Justice is the ability to live, move, work, and thrive without fear of being hunted by the state.
We stand with our immigrant and refugee communities who are forced to live under constant threat, whether or not the media chooses to pay attention. We echo the demands of Unite Oregon and others calling for ICE to be dismantled across this country. Accountability does not solely mean investigations after death. Accountability means ending the systems that make these killings inevitable.
There can be no true public safety while ICE, police, and prisons exist. There can be no justice while lives are treated as expendable. We demand a future rooted in care, not cages. In healing, not harm. In collective safety, not state violence.
We are fighting for a world where our communities are resourced, housed, fed, and free. A world where safety comes from care, not guns. A world where lives are not collateral damage.
We will not be silent. We will not be patient. We will not compromise our demand for liberation.
A new world is not only possible. It is necessary.
In solidarity,
Black and Beyond the Binary Collective
