On January 30, anti-ICE protests are scheduled around the country as an untold number of Americans participate in a general strike. The organizers, a group of student associations and immigrant-rights groups, are pushing a limited “No work, no school, no shopping” action to pressure the Trump administration to curb the abuses of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which include the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. It comes days after a general strike in Minnesota in which thousands of people marched through Minneapolis–St. Paul and hundreds of businesses closed their doors to end the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

President Donald Trump took office for a second term just over one year ago, promising the “largest deportation operation in American history.” But the brutal tactics employed by ICE at Trump’s direction have proved incredibly unpopular. According to a recent YouGov-Economist........

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