the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
April 20, 2026
On the night of the 4th of July in 2025, two dozen anti-ICE activists in Texas took part in a demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center.
From 50 yards away, they launched fireworks—as people do at night on the 4th of July! In Spanish, they relayed messages of encouragement to detainees using a bull horn. They called their activity a “noise demonstration.”
Others, dressed in black, let the air out of two tires on one ICE van. Someone no one had met before that day spray-painted one tiny guard shack with: “F--- you pigs.”
Because this prison is owned by the City of Alvarado, when loud noises happened, one Alvarado police officer responded.
Unfortunately, one anti-ICE demonstrator—a former Marine reservist and gun enthusiast—brought his rifle. He “stood guard” in a nearby woods. When the one Alvarado police officer arrived, this guy panicked and accidentally wounded the officer.
Of those who demonstrated that night, 16 faced federal felony charges. Some pled guilty in a deal to avoid trial. On March 13, 2026, eight were convicted of “offering support to [domestic] terrorists” and many other charges. One was convicted of lesser charges. Sentencing is scheduled to happen in May.
Because a few of the anti-ICE protestors were gun owners, they were convicted of terrorism—even though their “legal-in-Texas” guns were locked up at home!
None of this explains the terrorism charges and convictions. The federal government had decided that they do not like the population interfering with the harsh tactics of ICE. A Trump-appointed judge was selected and the jury was instructed so as to make an example of these folks.
The U.S. Government would like to replace the memory of Minneapolis and a community coming together in huge numbers with this made up “terrorism” scenario from Texas.
If you throw a firecracker, you will be convicted of terrorism.
If you have no gun on you, but own a gun that is back at your house, you will be convicted of terrorism.
Ever since the end of the social movements of the 1950s to 1970s, beginning around 1975, there has been a more reactionary path that the federal government has been on. Mass incarceration was one step along the way. What is happening now is the continuation.
The way the federal government fiercely reacted and threw the book at these protestors is telling. This protest was held outside a Border Patrol/ICE Immigrant Detention Center. This private, non-government-run facility was protected by the federal government as if it were Fort Knox. Why?
The Trump Administration has a goal to use harsh punishment to train the population on where they can and cannot protest and what they can and cannot do. For the population to accept this attempt to silence protest would be a big mistake. In Minneapolis, the population figured out what to do when faced with similar threats.