U.S. IMPERIALISM DRIVES ICE TERROR AND WARS OF AGGRESSION! JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD AND ALL VICTIMS OF TRUMPS WAR ON MIGRANTS!

U.S. imperialism drives ICE terror and wars of aggression! Justice for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of Trump's war on migrants!

The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns in the strongest terms the vile shooting and murder of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on January 7th in Minneapolis. Renee was courageously acting as a legal observer during ICE raids, standing in solidarity with and attempting to protect her migrant neighbors. This brutal assassination occurred amidst the Trump regime’s deployment of thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis and many other cities in the US, a move that further escalates its ongoing campaign of terror against migrant communities.

This killing is not an isolated incident, but another chapter in the centuries-long war waged by the US state against the migrant, Indigenous and Black working class. In this war, since its invention after 2001, ICE has consistently functioned as a domestic enforcement arm of imperial policy, utilizing tactics from tear gas and kidnapping to mass detention and assassinations. 

In fact, the weapon that killed Renee is part of a broader arsenal funded by the $1 trillion US military budget, a budget that fuels global counterinsurgency operations and military aid to US puppet governments, from the fascist regimes of India and the Philippines to the Zionist entity occupying Palestine. It is this same militarized logic that drives Trump's openly fascist immigration policies that target migrants and left-leaning movements equally as "enemies of the state." By enacting state repression, criminalization repression, criminalization of migrants and activists, and an "anti-terror" narrative, the regime builds on the Bush and Obama "War on Terror" doctrine that killed millions worldwide.

These wars of aggression, referred to by the US as "counter insurgency" wars and "wars on terror," are used to further enhance ICE capabilities. The surveillance and tracking technologies employed by ICE are battle-tested in Gaza and the West Bank. The media tactics of scapegoating migrants for economic crises are refined through propaganda wars against revolutionary movements in the Philippines and India as well as to justify the invasion of Venezuela. Imperial violence abroad informs and sharpens state repression inside US borders, and the profits reaped by weapons and war corporations fuel further aggression on all fronts.

The empire's concept of “peace” which they wield to justify endless wars exists for the maintenance of a status-quo of day-to-day exploitation imposed through terror and subjugation for the benefit of the ruling classes. As Trump threatens Iran by saying the US is "locked and loaded" if "Iran shoots peaceful protestors" in the country, his regime's ICE paramilitary force assassinates a legal observer standing with migrants in Minneapolis. The US's actions continue to expose the fact that all of these wars, abroad and domestically, serve the ruling capitalist class. It covers itself in the language of "human rights" to justify aggression abroad whenever it fits their profit-making motives while unleashing its most brutal violence against the oppressed nationalities and working classes within its own borders.

Fighting for just and lasting peace means standing in solidarity with migrant families in the US resisting state violence and fighting for liberation back in our home countries! Migrant and Anti-war movements must be united arm in arm against the US militarism that fuels wars on our homelands and inside the US and fight for a future of the hands of the war profiteers and fascist strongmen!

SHUT DOWN ICE
STOP US COUNTERINSURGENCY CAMPAIGNS AND FASCISM
DEFEND PEOPLES" STRUGGLES
STOP THE US WAR ON MIGRANTS