Nationwide ICE protests and ‘blackout’ slated for Friday: ‘No work. No school. No shopping’
Schools and businesses close as US braces for nationwide ‘blackout’
- Protests and a general strike are planned across 46 US states Friday as demonstrators oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and demand federal agents withdraw from Minnesota.
- Multiple businesses announced they will be closed during the “blackout,” and some schools in Arizona and Colorado canceled classes in anticipation of mass absences.
- The demonstrations follow public outrage over the fatal shootings of two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, by immigration officers in Minnesota.
- Organizers are calling for a sustained movement, including walkouts and boycotts, writing, “The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country — to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN.
- A recent poll indicates that American approval of Trump's immigration policy has fallen to its lowest point in his second term, with a majority believing the crackdown has gone too far.
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