How people are stepping up to protect immigrant neighbors from ICE
- Hilario Martinez-Garcia was deported back to Mexico in May 2025 after being detained during an ICE-Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stop near Nashville.
- His deportation followed increasing ICE enforcement actions directed by Tennessee officials, involving coordinated checkpoints targeting undocumented immigrants.
- Martinez-Garcia, described as a family man with an American wife and children, had no green card due to financial barriers, leaving his family emotionally and financially affected.
- Chelsea White said, “It’s something that we didn’t have, trying to take care of our family,” while their 11-year-old daughter Arianna said she “cries her heart out” looking at a picture of her father.
- Local activists and community groups nationwide have increased rapid response efforts, including hotlines and volunteer patrols, to support immigrants facing ICE raids amid rising protests and tensions.
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Immigrant rights, labor leaders condemn ICE presence in Seattle
The following is from WAISN, WSLC, MLK Labor, SEIU 775, and UFCW 3000: ‘We call for solidarity among all workers in the face of this obvious attempt by the federal government to ignite civil unrest and divide working people’ SEATTLE, WA (June 13, 2025) — As leaders in Washington’s immigration rights and labor movements, we […] The post Immigrant rights, labor leaders condemn ICE presence in Seattle appeared first on The STAND.
Tribune editorial: Utahns should stand up for the rights of their immigrant neighbors. Peacefully.
“Even in Utah, good people are afraid to go to school, to go to work, to go to the supermarket, to go to church,” writes the editorial board. “We are dangerously close to being called to hide our neighbors in attics or under false floorboards.”
Central Coast leaders condemn ICE raids, demand state action to protect immigrant communities
A coalition of local immigrant rights groups, farmworker advocates and local leaders gathered Thursday to condemn a recent surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raids targeting agricultural workers in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and called on state…

How people are stepping up to protect immigrant neighbors from ICE
By Victoria Valenzuela | Edited by Patricia GuadalupeOne day, Ivan Alamonte received a call from an undocumented woman in Durham, North Carolina, who was seeking his help. ICE agents had been patrolling the mobile home community where she lived, and through her window, she saw that there was an unmarked car parked right outside. Filled with fear, she turned to Alamonte for guidance.
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