🧊 ICEbreaker News has just launched!

From mass detentions to forced deportations, ICE continues to terrorize families and communities across the country. Stay informed, spread the word, and take action. Together, we can expose and stop I

Hi there!

Today I’m excited to share something new from People Power United — our just-launched newsletter: 🧊 ICEbreaker News.

Instead of our usual programming, I’m giving you a preview of what 🧊ICEbreaker News subscribers will receive a few times each week. Our mission is simple: raise awareness, expose the truth, and mobilize action to push back against ICE’s unchecked abuses.

Let’s be clear—here at People Power United we support a safe, fair, and functional immigration system. But what we have now is a system in crisis. Rather than fixing it through thoughtful policy, Trump and Republicans in Congress have funneled more money into an agency that remains dangerously unaccountable.

From mass detentions to forced deportations, ICE continues to terrorize families and communities across the country. Stay informed, spread the word, and take action. Together, we can expose and stop ICE’s cruelty—and fight for dignity, safety, and justice for all.

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ICEbreaker News Briefs: Detention, Deportation, and Resistance

Trump administration's push to deport student activists goes on trial
The Washington Post
Details a federal trial in Boston over allegations that ICE targeted international student and faculty activists for deportation, raising troubling free‑speech implications. 🔗 Read article

Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say
The Washington Post
Reports on a newly‑opened ICE detention site in Florida's Everglades—nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”—and its environmental and health dangers. 🔗 Read article

Man indicted for distributing face shields at L.A. immigration protest
The Washington Post
Covers a federal indictment of an activist who provided protective gear during anti‑ICE protests in Los Angeles, with prosecutors alleging a link to civil disorder. 🔗 Read article

I'm an immigration lawyer. The children I serve are terrified.
NPR (via Houston Chronicle opinion) | By Elizabeth (Chiqui) Sanchez Kennedy
An immigration attorney details how ICE raids and DHS enforcement have traumatized children, urging community advocacy to fight dehumanizing policy. 🔗 Read article

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200 Marines sent to Florida to support ICE, U.S. Northern Command says
The Washington Post
About 200 Marines have been deployed to ICE detention centers in Florida, providing logistical support amid controversy over military involvement in immigration enforcement. 🔗 Read article

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Mexico braced for Trump's mass deportations. They haven't happened.
The Washington Post
Analyzes the disparity between Trump’s mass‑deportation rhetoric and the actual limited ICE deportation numbers under DHS policies. 🔗 Read article

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After classmate is deported, students rally against immigration efforts
The Washington Post
Students at Montgomery Blair High walked out in protest of ICE deportations and spurred calls for increased protections for immigrant peers. 🔗 Read article

The legal battle over ICE agents wearing masks | MSNBC

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ICEbreaker News: The Fight to End Cruelty, Detention, and Fear

ICE isn’t just a rogue agency—it’s part of a larger system of state violence that targets immigrants, tears families apart, and undermines our most basic human rights. Empowered by far-right lawmakers, ICE operates with impunity, weaponizing fear and surveillance to criminalize entire communities.

Fueled by anti-immigrant hate and backed by extremist agendas, ICE's operations reflect a broader push toward authoritarianism. Mass raids, indefinite detentions, secretive deportations, and collaboration with local police all feed into a system designed to intimidate, control, and erase. These tactics don’t make us safer—they make us less free.

ICE’s Pattern of Harm Includes:

• Targeting immigrant families through mass raids and surveillance

• Detaining asylum seekers in inhumane, for-profit facilities

• Collaborating with local law enforcement to bypass sanctuary protections

• Abusing detainees and violating basic rights and due process

• Using fear to silence communities and suppress dissent

• Advancing policies rooted in xenophobia and white nationalism

We Must Act:

ICE is not just enforcing laws—it’s violating them. It’s time to dismantle the cruelty, end the detentions, and protect our communities. We must organize, resist, and demand a future rooted in dignity, justice, and liberation for all.

Join us. Speak out. Hold ICE accountable. Together, we can break the cycle of fear.

Calls to Action

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren't serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

• Click here to become a subscriber to 🧊 ICEbreaker News

• Click here to Tell Congress: We need immigration reform now

• Click here to Unmask ICE. No Secret Police in America.

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Attack on Birthright Citizenship

• Click here to Denounce Islamophobic Attacks on Zohran Mamdani

• Click here to Tell the USPS: Deliver the Mail, Not Deportations

• Click here to demand Birthright citizenship must be protected nationwide. Demand your Attorney General take action now.

• Click here to Take Action: Stop ICE Raids and Military Escalation Against Protestors

• Click here to send a letter to your lawmakers to speak out and denounce this state-sponsored terror on our communities and champion freedom of speech and the right to assemble.

ICEblock app - See something, tap something

• Click here to get the ICEBLock app (only available on Apple Appstore). The app enables users to anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area. Its purpose is to alert communities about ICE activity and help individuals avoid potential encounters. Read more about the app here on MSNBC.

Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE

• You have the right to record law enforcement officers performing their duties in public, but you must remain calm, courteous, and avoid interfering by keeping a safe distance. While you can take photos, video, or audio, officers cannot legally search your device, access your passcode, or delete footage without a warrant—even if you're arrested. They may order you to move for safety reasons, but not simply because you’re recording. Be aware that officers might still retaliate illegally with arrest, force, or threats, so stay alert. In cases involving ICE, consider the risks to the person being arrested—get consent when possible and blur identifying details if sharing the footage publicly to protect their safety while holding ICE accountable.

• Check out these two articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation for more information: Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE & Right to Record

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Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people's will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Laurie joining others to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

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We are loud. We are relentless. We are united in advocating for progress and people-powered democracy.

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