USA: Solidarity with migrants’ protests

BLM campaigns often found common ground with those who mobilised against the USA’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which played a high-profile role in implementing the Trump administration’s policies of deliberate humiliation and expulsion of undocumented migrants. Solidarity with Abolish ICE and Occupy ICE protests organised around a shared understanding of the USA as a ‘carceral state’: a country characterised by systematic control through incarceration, asserted through institutions, practices and ideologies that overwhelmingly target Black people, people of colour and Indigenous people.