The Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are voicing condemnation for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after graphic video footage showed an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Good, a Minneapolis mother of three.
Milwaukee’s Democratic Socialists stand in solidarity with all those oppressed by ICE—not just in Minneapolis, but here in Milwaukee and across the country—by calling for the agency’s abolition after ICE marked its deadliest year in two decades.
“We need to keep our communities safe from the masked agents empowered by our right-wing government to act belligerently without consequence,” Milwaukee DSA Co-Chair Andy Barbour said. “Our only way out of this is through organizing our friends and neighbors into a socialist movement that shows solidarity with immigrants and those targeted by ICE. Only with our collective power will we be able to force an end to the violence.”
Local DSA organizers remain firm in their opposition to ICE operations and the damage they wrought to area families, and they demand agents leave southeastern Wisconsin and stay out.
“Renee Good was murdered for loving her neighbors, and her work lives in each of us who pick up the flame of resistance against injustice,” Milwaukee DSA Co-Chair Autumn Pickett said. “Trump’s administration wants us to feel afraid and powerless—we will not cower. They want us overwhelmed by their depravity—we will not lose sight of freedom. They want us broken by their power—though they can kill a rose, they cannot stop the coming of the spring.”
Milwaukee DSA is Milwaukee’s largest socialist organization fighting against imperialism for a democratic economy, a just society, and a sustainable environment. Join today at dsausa.org/join.
