ICE is waging war on our communities. ICE has engaged in racial profiling in Black and Brown communities, extrajudicial killings, mass deportations that have separated families, and illegal and inhumane conditions in its detention camps. In a county where over 60% of the workforce was born in another country, any attack on immigrants is an attack on the working class!

In June 2025, the Miami City Commission voted 3-2 to deputize City of Miami police officers to act as immigration agents through a 287(g) agreement with ICE, despite hours of public testimony against it. More than a year later, the agreement is still in place, even after Mayor Eileen Higgins and a majority of commissioners have said they're open to ending it.

This is why Miami DSA launched ICE Out of Miami, a multi-front campaign to protect our communities from ICE terror. Our chapter does this by engaging in community defense efforts, such as rapid response and “Know Your Rights” trainings and canvassing small businesses to inform them of their rights during ICE encounters. We also engage in legislative pressure by speaking out at City Commission meetings, putting pressure on key decision-makers, and demanding an end to the City of Miami’s 287(g) agreement!

Our Demands:

At the local level, Miami DSA is organizing with our neighbors to get the City of Miami to cancel their 287(g) agreement with ICE and refuse any cooperation with the federal government in its effort to deport our neighbors! We call on all other municipalities, universities, and other local entities to do the same!

At the national level, we echo DSA’s national Workers Deserve More program in calling for the abolition of ICE,  an end to ICE detention and deportations and punishing federal agents' brutality. We call for legalizing migration, granting amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, providing a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and ending visa caps and quotas.