Anti-ICE resistance has taken shape through a dense, overlapping ecosystem of local and national groups that mix moral witness, practical support, mutual aid and rapid response. Most of these groups are active in several cities. Currently Minneapolis is most evident: Defend612.

My friend Warren has been following action in Seattle:

“The groups include Indivisible of which there are several chapters. Communities Rising has spawned several neighborhood groups, such as Phinneywood Rising  All groups emphasize turnout, civic pressure, and sustained local presence, such as “Hands Around Greenlake”.

One frontline approach is taken by National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), which focuses on protecting day laborers from ICE-targeting, particularly at Home Depot. Actions include moral support, rights education, coffee and snacks, and informal early-warning systems.

Complementing this  is Washington Neighborhood Defense (WAND) which focuses on small businesses. Other groups focus on neighborhoods.

Surrounding these efforts is a sprawling constellation: Evergreen Resistance, Common Power, Protect Democracy, Know Your Rights (KYR) Canvassing, Trillionaires for Trump, Takedown Tesla, NSP Actions, among others. Much of this organizing runs through encrypted apps, code names, and loose affiliation, energizing, fast-moving, but also fragmented. Together these groups are defined less by hierarchy than by persistence: many hands, unevenly coordinated, trying to hold the line against immigration enforcement, through persistence, solidarity, and local pressure.”