A major strike is being planned across the United States on Friday (January 30).
Organizers are protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in their communities and calling for defunding of the program amid the ICE-related deaths of at least eight people in 2026 alone, including Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Activists are demanding ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) be removed from cities around the country, which has resulted in Friday, January 30 being declared a “National Shutdown.”
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“NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. STOP FUNDING ICE,” the official shutdown site declares.
“The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.”
“The entire country is shocked and outraged at the brutal killings of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas González, and Keith Porter Jr. by federal agents. While Trump and other right wing politicians are slandering them as ‘terrorists’, the video evidence makes it clear beyond all doubt: they were gunned down in broad daylight simply for exercising their First Amendment right to protest mass deportation. Every day, ICE, Border Patrol and other enforcers of Trump’s racist agenda are going into our communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear. It is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough!” the site’s mission statement declares.
There is also a list of actions and protests being taken state by state, a running list of organizations supporting the shutdown.
The shutdown has been endorsed by stars like Pedro Pascal, Hannah Einbinder, and Macklemore who have shared the posts on social media, per The Hill.
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