Time for some new signs

Time for some new signs when next we hit the streets. Here are some suggestions:

● Stop the lies

● Stop the grift

● Stop the cruelty

Most importantly — Stop the killing.

As reported last month, 2025 was one of the deadliest years in ICE detention ever recorded, with at least 32 deaths reported, and many others are reported missing.

We will likely never know how all of those who were deported fared, even via the Freedom of Information Act. The craven indifference to these people’s fate is a feature not a bug, deliberately stymying attempts to keep track of the kidnapped. This is why the legal observers in the streets, recording the movements and actions of ICE, are so important — they may well be the difference between a victim being traceable by their attorneys and loved ones and being entirely disappeared. It has taken a great deal of unpaid labor to keep the records we have — it will continue to be a vital effort going forward.

As anyone with a phone or television knows, Minnesota is now besieged as an act of revenge against this kind of pushback, the violence thinly cloaked as a “crisis of fraud” perpetrated by Somali immigrants. This assault by our own government has resulted in two deaths of US citizens in Minnesota in rapid succession, and three shootings (that we know of) in this first month of 2026. There are continued reports of people being literally disappeared as we have seen in California and other states. In some dropped off with no warm clothes or their phones. Some ICE agents are robbing those they snatch, and one enterprising asshole even sold his teenage victim’s phone.

Meanwhile the grab the “P” felon-in-chief and Stephen Miller have continued to “unleash” goons who yell “F’ing Bitch!” when shooting a women in the face, who shoot a man almost a dozen times when he’s already down, and who clap in approval and enthuse, “It’s like Call of Duty, so cool, huh?”

Here are some of the companies assisting ICE do their thing.

• Hilton, I hear, is no longer housing our home-grown terrorists. Boycotting works. Calling out these companies does work. Let’s get to it!

• The Fortune story linked here [500 Companies with ICE contracts] is behind a paywall. If you don’t have a subscription, you can get it at your local library — a good place to support these days.

• And this Google map will let you search those aiding and abetting ICE by location.

• A group of students at Rice University also created ICE Map for exposing the scope of ICE activities with an interactive map tracking documented incidents and detention facilities across the nation.

• Particularly egregious corporate examples are:

  • The for-profit incarceration companies CoreCivic and GEO Group are the largest private prison contractors for ICE, benefiting from increased funding for detention centers.

  • Companies like AT&T and CACI provide essential IT and data services, which are crucial for ICE operations.

  • Avelo airlines ran nearly 2,000 ICE Air flights between May and December of 2025; that insane number is only 18% of all U.S. immigration enforcement flights during that period

• Just for fun - track Government Spending in general: USAspending.gov

• And in case anyone is still counting the lies, 47’s first year in office has resulted in adding $2.25 trillion to the national debt. Must be all that “deal making.”