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Get Out of Our Cities: Another Nationwide Uprising Against ICE

10 13
01.02.2026

People partake in a "National Shutdown" protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 30, 2026. John Moore/GETTY

Many thousands of protestors across hundreds of demonstrations around the country on Friday once again took to their streets to tell President Donald Trump’s federal immigration agents a simple message: Get out of our towns and cities. 

Friday’s nationwide mobilization is only the most recent in a string of demonstrations demanding justice for those targeted in the Department of Homeland Security’s ongoing, and violent, operations. Many of them focused on the brutality in Minnesota, including the killings of two US citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents, and the apprehension of Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old boy with the Spider-Man backpack and the blue hat, who is currently sick in a........

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