Inside America's ICE + Police Crackdown | w/ Rachel Domond

"We are in a very visible, explicit war for our basic survival right now… Our neighborhoods are not being boosted with funding or relief, but with militarized agents to surveil us, intimidate us, and kill us when we're deemed a threat for being Black, brown, or poor."

Violent crime is at near record lows across the US — but killings by ICE and police are surging. From Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, both killed by federal immigration agents this month, to Corey Ruiz, shot by Madison police last week, communities are responding the way they historically have: with mass protests and demands for structural change. Meanwhile, TPS protections are ending this week for roughly 350,000 Haitians, as the Trump administration ramps up a new anti-immigrant crackdown on New York City.

Rachel Domond, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Houston, says the timing of this isn't coincidence — it's strategy:

“Trump is waning in popularity. People are becoming increasingly conscious that the ills in our society are systemic, and people are angry. They tell us that immigrants are taking all the jobs, or poor Black people are abusing the social programs available, and that's why you don't have what you need. But these are all lies designed to distract us from the real people responsible for our conditions, which are billionaires who hoard all of the wealth.”

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