How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More
NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!'
you sent us a lot of your questions.
we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.
05.03.2026 16:50
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is a major scandal on every level -- corruption, human rights abuses, blatant violations of the law.
03.03.2026 22:23
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Thank you for all your work to write and share this history of the system! Hope you are taking care, Tina ❤️
03.03.2026 16:09
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@utopia-defer.red and i listened to unbuild walls by @silkys13.bsky.social on our drive to NJ, and ngl i felt a lil emotional hearing about just how hard illinois residents and coalition partners fought against detention centers in their backyard. we can do it too
03.03.2026 14:28
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It’s one of my favorite sections of the book!
03.03.2026 16:07
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Really great to be with folks in Tacoma last night talking about immigrant justice and abolition!
24.02.2026 16:37
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
22.02.2026 13:33
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Hundreds of organizers coming to Mn this week. The hardest part to share is we didn’t defeat 🧊. They will spread across the country. But we can share all we’ve done so this multi-pronged resistance can spread around the country.
22.02.2026 14:25
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Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
20.02.2026 00:13
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Can’t imagine how it must have felt then to be part of that and believe in a candidate tbh
19.02.2026 15:39
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In 1988, I was elected as a delegate for Jesse Jackson to the Colorado Democratic Convention. This is, in part, why. He had courage where most others did not. Jackson had some major support, but of course the party leadership stomped on us. Many/most of us never stopped our activism.
18.02.2026 21:39
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Image caption: Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson speaks to a guard during a tour of the Krome detention facility in Miami on December 30, 1981, after the quelling of a hunger strike during the Christmas holiday. Jackson's visit brought media attention to conditions at the facility. Mark Foley. Reprinted with permission from AP Photo.
Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.
17.02.2026 16:47
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"a community convinced that its financial survival depends on locking people up. It’s not a new phenomenon. In this iteration of the classic prison town...
"Trump needs these towns, and he needs local officials who are willing—and sometimes eager—to sign deals...."
17.02.2026 09:27
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I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.
13.02.2026 19:48
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🥹❤️
14.02.2026 04:56
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Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social
14.02.2026 01:15
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
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12.02.2026 23:55
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I think on top of the visible trauma and rebuilding, this is a large risk if we are in fact entering into a new phase. Much of ICE’s activity has been jail related for its whole existence and it is built on the idea that there are discardable people nobody has to see.
12.02.2026 15:21
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Thank you for reading and sharing!
12.02.2026 15:59
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Looking for ways to take action on ICE and keep the pressure up for Palestine? Join tomorrow’s JVP Power Half-Hour to take action in the community together.
11.02.2026 22:07
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So incredibly honored & humbled to be in conversation with @silkys13.bsky.social & @harshawalia.bsky.social tomorrow night for a @haymarketbooks.org discussion on abolition, fighting "crisis at the border" rhetoric/federal occupation with insurgent care & what this moment demands of us/our movements
11.02.2026 20:35
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We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE.
Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility.
detentionreports.com
05.02.2026 16:36
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