1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

I am writing to demand accountability for the recent killings by ICE agents and to urge you to support the abolition of federal immigration enforcement as it currently operates. Keith Porter, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Weeks later, Renée Good and Alex Pretti were killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. All three individuals should still be alive. The pattern is unmistakable and historically rooted. In 1964, the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner revealed how America assigns differential value to lives based on race. Chaney's death as a Black man was expected and normalized, while the deaths of Goodman and Schwerner, who were white, suddenly made the violence visible to the broader public. Today, Keith Porter's killing received minimal national attention while the deaths of Good and Pretti triggered broader scrutiny of ICE. This contrast exposes how Black death remains a disposable category built into our governance structures. Masked federal agents now roam American cities with weapons, anonymity, and legal cover. They arrive without names or warning, shielded by badges they refuse to show and laws designed to protect them. They terrorize immigrant and migrant communities first as testing grounds, but American citizens, protesters, and neighbors are not spared. Dissent itself has become grounds for suspicion justifying force. When the administration could not send the military into American cities, it sent ICE instead. Reform presumes a system capable of self-correction, which history contradicts. The fundamental problem is that the state resolves its anxieties through force and retroactively names that force law and order. I am asking you to reject this framework entirely. Support legislation to defund and abolish ICE. Demand immediate investigations into these killings with transparent findings and consequences. Oppose any expansion of federal enforcement powers. Liberation requires asking whether our society can exist without requiring some people to be expendable for others to feel secure. How many more must fall before you act?