The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center condemns the extralegal surveillance, harassment, and violence waged by ICE against the people residing in the United States. We call for the abolishment of ICE and the prosecution of all ICE personnel who have participated in the murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, and any violent acts on any person or persons. US officials have chosen to operate outside the bounds of law and basic morality. This must stop.
Violence by ICE cannot be separated from US officials’ support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and for illegal settlement expansion in Palestine, the military strike on Venezuela, and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. These actions are interconnected expressions of an empire that relies on illegal violence abroad and domestically to enforce dominance.
The UC-IMC calls on all organizations and groups across the world to unite against this transnational terror and put human rights, dignity, and liberation FIRST.