Milwaukee DSA Demands Abolition of ICE After Agent Shoots, Kills Minnesota Woman
The Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are voicing condemnation for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after graphic video footage showed an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Good, a Minneapolis mother of three.
Milwaukee’s Democratic Socialists stand in solidarity with all those oppressed by ICE—not just in Minneapolis, but here in Milwaukee and across the country—by calling for the agency’s abolition after ICE marked its deadliest year in two decades.
“We need to keep our communities safe from the masked agents empowered by our right-wing government to act belligerently without consequence,” Milwaukee DSA Co-Chair Andy Barbour said. “Our only way out of this is through organizing our friends and neighbors into a socialist movement that shows solidarity with immigrants and those targeted by ICE. Only with our collective power will we be able to force an end to the violence.”
Local DSA organizers remain firm in their opposition to ICE operations and the damage they wrought to area families, and they demand agents leave southeastern Wisconsin and stay out.
“Renee Good was murdered for loving her neighbors, and her work lives in each of us who pick up the flame of resistance against injustice,” Milwaukee DSA Co-Chair Autumn Pickett said. “Trump’s administration wants us to feel afraid and powerless—we will not cower. They want us overwhelmed by their depravity—we will not lose sight of freedom. They want us broken by their power—though they can kill a rose, they cannot stop the coming of the spring.”
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ICE is attempting to enforce laws. Yet they are targeted with harassment. ICE didn’t make the laws. If we don’t like what is happening, ICE is enforcing the law – how does throwing rocks at ICE help? ICE didn’t make the laws. Throwing rocks, yelling, calling . . . attacking a hotel, . . .
The number of people shot in Milwaukee. . . terrible . . . unthinkable . . . the number of people shot in Chicago . . . the number of people that die of drug overdoses . . . the waste in government spending . . . Milwaukee students that need help with basic skills. . . Yet how many people are volunteering to help in schools, how many people are protesting members of Congress, . . . What are we doing to increase the arrest of those who sell drugs? Who is working to help in the schools? Who is helping to track down gang leaders or those who profit through the sexual exploitation of women or, worse, children?
I’m not sure what the problem is.
There is a leader, Venvuela, who was indicted for trafficking drugs to the United States. Drugs that kill people in the United States and US Dollars going out of the country to pay for those drugs. He is arrested, and that is a terrible thing?
I thought that Congress made laws. Am I wrong?