Support the ACLU: Protect & Advance Immigrants’ Rights

In early January, ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, while she was in her car in a south Minneapolis neighborhood. The shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that "the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota" and sent over 2,000 federal immigration officers into the state. The ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota strongly condemned this killing and are urging federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota as soon as possible and to halt these massive escalations immediately, everywhere.

In response, the ACLU and a broad national coalition of partners across the country organized and kicked off the ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action to honor the lives lost at the hands of ICE, demand accountability, make visible the human cost of this administration’s actions, and call for an end to abusive immigration enforcement practices. This will be an ongoing nationwide campaign; you can find a list of events here (https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132).

For months, ICE and other federal agents have escalated their operations in neighborhoods across the country, resulting in increasingly disturbing scenes and illegal conduct. Our communities have been left reeling as agents have arrested U.S. citizens, dragged children from their beds in the middle of the night in zip-ties, smashed car windows, and even driven away from an arrest scene with a toddler still in the backseat. Additionally, last year, over 30 people died in ICE custody, the highest death toll for the agency in two decades. This tragedy in Minneapolis is a horrifying escalation of the violence and aggression federal law enforcement has inflicted on our communities, and such lawless operations must end before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

We are asking our audiences to contact their Members of Congress and urge them to stop funding ICE and to independently investigate the killing of Renee Nicole Good. You can join our action here (https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-ices-attack-our-communities).

The ACLU, with our nationwide network of affiliates, has been and will continue fighting against these ongoing abuses of power. Below are additional recent updates on key fights to protect immigrants' rights:

- Challenging ICE racial profiling in Minnesota:
In January, the ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the federal government to end ICE and CBP’s practice of suspicionless stops, warrantless arrests, and racial profiling of Minnesotans.

- Challenging new ICE policy mandating detention of immigrants without bond:
The ACLU of Colorado, ACLU, and our partners filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a recent Trump administration policy that ends bond eligibility for millions of immigrants detained by ICE. This lawsuit stems from a policy ICE enacted declaring that all people alleged to have entered the country without documentation be denied eligibility for bond during the entirety of their removal proceedings.

- Blocking troop deployment to Illinois:
Last December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 7th Circuit's decision blocking the administration's attempt to deploy 500 members of the Illinois and Texas National Guards to Chicago. The ACLU and its partners filed a friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court, explaining that the founders of this country feared and rejected the military's use as a tool of oppression and would have viewed President Trump's claims of unreviewable authority to deploy troops in response to political protest as an intolerable threat to liberty.

In addition to sounding the alarm about these dangerous deployments from the very beginning, the ACLU of Illinois secured an important ruling in November 2025 that blocked the administration from indiscriminately using tear gas and other chemical weapons against the press, protestors, and people just trying to go about their daily lives.

- Improving conditions for immigrants detained at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC:
Days after the ACLU and NYCLU filed a class-action lawsuit challenging abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, a District Court in New York granted a temporary restraining order requiring improved conditions for people detained there. For instance, ICE must improve access to hygiene, provide sleeping mats and access to adequate soap and other hygiene products, and ensure people detained can make free, unmonitored, and confidential calls to their lawyers within 24 hours of being detained.

- Prohibiting ICE officers from impersonating police officers when conducting home arrests:
After five years, the ACLU of Southern California and partners reached a settlement with ICE, prohibiting its officers from using deceptive ruses to enter a home. In addition to prohibitions on identifying themselves falsely as local law enforcement, they cannot falsely state they are conducting a probation or parole check, claim there is a safety or legal problem with a person's vehicle, or misrepresent that their purpose involves danger to a resident or public safety.

- Challenging Florida's authority to detain people at "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center:
The ACLU and ACLU of Florida are challenging Florida's unprecedented action of creating its own immigration jail and circumventing federal laws. This hastily constructed detention facility in the middle of the Everglades, combined with the lack of authority, is creating unprecedented challenges that people in immigration detention typically do not face, including being held without charge, not receiving initial custody or bond determinations, not appearing in the detainee locator system, and not being able to access their attorneys or immigration court.

To learn more about any of these cases and the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, please visit our website: (https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights).

Thank you for joining us in this critical work and for your continued support.