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Portland Jobs with Justice Says ICE OUT!
The Portland Jobs with Justice Executive Board Releases the following statement calling for an end to the unaccountable violence unleashed by ICE and federal agents. Through the collective power of labor and community united, we can shut them down and build justice for our communities.
THEY ARE KILLING US. WE MUST SHUT THEM DOWN.
Alex Pretti should be checking patients’ vitals today. Renee Good should be hugging her children. Keith Porter, Jr. should be welcoming the new year. Instead, they are dead—murdered by an agency that operates without accountability on American soil.
Alex Pretti is the ninth person killed by ICE operations this year alone. He joins a list of martyrs that grows by the hour: Renee Good, Parady La, Heber Sanchez Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, and Keith Porter, Jr.
Last year, 2025, was the deadliest year in ICE’s history. 31 people died in ICE cages. Another 22 died in the hands of CBP. These are not just statistics. Each of these 53 people belonged to a family and a community. They brought joy to the lives of those around them, and their lives were stolen by a government that views them as disposable.
We are past the time for “concern.” We are in a state of emergency, and we must use our collective rage to mobilize.
Make no mistake: ICE is functioning exactly as it was designed. Established in the shadow of 9/11, it systematized the targeting of Muslim and immigrant communities, drawing on a long history of discriminatory policing in this country. It is an agency fundamentally rooted in exclusion, now weaponized by an administration that seeks to criminalize our neighbors for simply existing.
To our friends in the labor movement and our allies across the country: Immigrants are our union members, our coworkers and our neighbors. As organizations dedicated to the uplift of working people, together we must build the collective power to defend each other. Words of condemnation are a necessary start, but we have the collective strength to do so much more. Together, we have the ability to lay down our tools and disrupt the logistics that keep this machinery running. We are not powerless observers; workers are the engine of this country. Let us use that strength to protect our communities when they need us most.
The bare minimum is the immediate abolition of ICE and an end to Department of Homeland Security funding. But until that happens, we are done asking politely. We are done negotiating with kidnappers and murderers.
We are united and we are mobilizing.
ICE OUT NOW.
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Thank you! #SayTheirNames #HonorTheirSacrifice #CallYourReps
Just a quick half hour over a cup of your fave brew with a phone in your hand or dictating an email could stop ICE from turning Oregon into their next target and show #WeStandWithMinneapolis. It’s our civic duty. Today we can answer the question, “What would you have done during the NAZI occupation? Can we not give one half hour from the safety of our homes? https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/