AF3IRM Condemns the Killings by ICE / CBP

AF3IRM stands with Minneapolis in resistance to state-sponsored terror and in solidarity with uprisings nationwide.

On January 7th, 2026 - ICE agents fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a mother, with a glove compartment full of children’s toys and stickers on her car, like many of us working-class mothers. When mothers are killed, families are shattered, children are traumatized, and the state’s failure to protect women’s safety and dignity is exposed for what it is: a deliberate refusal to value women’s lives.

This past weekend Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was also killed by a federal agent while trying to protect a woman who was pushed down by a federal agent.

The recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti prove that no one is safe from state-sponsored terror. They also confirm a truth women have known for generations: men acting in the name of the state to kill women, and those who try to protect them, because the institutions of power are built to control, punish, and silence women. The administration lied about both these murders, claiming that they posed a threat to federal agents when all video evidence proves otherwise. This is yet another example of Trump’s fascist regime manufacturing resistance as “threats” in order to justify violence and sustain patriarchal control.

As transnational feminists, we recognize that this is how fascism operates: it kills in the streets and then continues its war on women through incarceration and confinement. Women in ICE custody face a range of gendered risks, increasing their vulnerability to abuse. Sexual violence is another tool wielded by state terrorists to normalize fascist power. A former detention officer at an ICE facility in Louisiana confessed to sexually abusing a Nicaraguan woman over several months while she was in custody. This case is only one reported incident as sexual assault is typically unreported by incarcerated women due to a culture of impunity and fear of retaliation. In addition, women in detention routinely experience delayed or denied medical care. When pregnant women, menstruating women, or transwomen are denied necessary or gender-affirming care, it is fascism in action.

AF3IRM denounces the patriarchal, white supremacist ideology driving the ICE and CBP brutality unleashed not only in the streets of Minneapolis in broad daylight but in numerous detention centers, workplaces, and homes. Tellingly, their names remain largely unknown because fascism thrives on erasing those it targets: people of color, immigrants, and the poor. We honor them by naming them today and refusing to allow their deaths to be buried by silence.

Despite the onslaught of state-sanctioned violence and oppression, people are exerting their collective power. Minnesota launched a historical general strike on January 23, 2026, marking a major escalation in resistance by shutting down work, school, and the state’s ability to function. Student organizations are calling for an extension to a nationwide strike on January 30, 2026 for mass mobilization to confront state violence. 

We also salute nurses’ unions in New York, California, and Hawaiʻi that are striking for better wages and staffing levels to ensure patient safety. This strike pierces deeply knowing Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse, a profession dominated by women that the regime is attempting to deprofessionalize by removing nursing degrees from the list of professional programs. This tactic is designed to degrade the social status and power of nurses. Yet, multiple unions are standing up to the regime’s attempts to delegitimize their labor. National Nurses United has called for the abolishment of ICE. 

We have survived tyrants, and will overcome them again. AF³IRM is a political organization of Indigenous, Black women, and women of color. We are uniquely positioned to address the intersecting oppressions that seek to erase use. Join the transnational feminist fight against fascism.

Abolish ICE and end patriarchal state violence.

DM us or e-mail organizing@af3irm.org.

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