ICE and Border Patrol shootings spark hundreds of weekend vigils and protests across America

Nearly 600 Events Planned as of Friday Evening

By April Rubin / Axios / January 9, 2026

ICE Out For Good” vigils and protest events were quickly planned nationwide for Jan. 10 and 11 in response to a fatal shooting by immigration officers in Minneapolis, organizers told Axios on Friday.

Why it matters: The killing and a subsequent Border Patrol shooting in Portland have sparked outrage and anger at the Trump administration, which has defended its agents.

Driving the news: There have been at least seven officer-involved shootings since President Trump ramped up Homeland Security operations in early 2025.

On Wednesday, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis as she drove past immigration agents. The Trump administration claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense as Good drove away, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has rejected that claim.

On Thursday, two people were shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland during what officials said was “a targeted vehicle stop.” Both were hospitalized.

State of play: Protests, vigils and other “ICE Out For Good” events are being held by groups including Indivisible, 50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign, Voto Latino and the American Civil Liberties Union. The mobilization is meant to humanize ICE victims and demand accountability.

“Good and the Portland victims are part of a broader and deeply alarming pattern of unchecked violence and abuse by federal immigration enforcement agencies,” organizers said in a statement.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Axios that protesters should remember “interfering with federal law enforcement officers is a crime.”

“Those committing crimes will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

By the numbers: 580 events were scheduled across the country as of Friday evening.

More than 1,000 are ultimately anticipated, organizers said.

Behind the scenes: The weekend’s mobilization came together in less than 24 hours, said Sarah Parker, Voices of Florida executive director and 50501 national partner.

“You can only put so much water in a cup before it starts to overflow,” Parker told Axios. “And I think it’s overflowing right now.”

“Within a matter of a week — Venezuela, Minnesota, Portland — enough is enough,” she added. “And I think the people are going to make that very clear in the next few weeks.”

Organizing vigils, specifically, helps “create space for a community to come together in a very particular kind of way,” Tamika Middleton, the Women’s March chief political and strategy officer, told Axios.

“They center the person that we lost and the community as opposed to the perpetrators and the purveyors of violence.”

Zoom out: In recent polling, more U.S. adults indicated that they support anti-ICE protests than ICE itself.

Some congressional Democrats threatened another government shutdown to force substantive ICE changes, while Republicans have defended the agency.
Zoom in: Two days of protests in Minneapolis following Good’s shooting ended in law enforcement using flash bangs and a chemical irritant.

Mayor Frey responded to Wednesday’s shooting emphatically, telling ICE to “get the f—” out of his city. In a Thursday New York Times op-ed, he said the killing was “sadly predictable” because of the Trump administration’s harsh immigration actions.
Flashback: Anti-ICE demonstrations spread across the U.S. in June in response to federal immigration sweeps in Los Angeles.

In September in Chicago, an ICE officer fatally shot Silverio Villegas-González during a traffic stop. The agency said he was resisting arrest.
Go deeper: These are the DHS officer-involved shootings in Trump’s second term

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the latest estimate of events planned and a White House statement.