FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media@freedomforimmigrants.org
LOS ANGELES — Following the deaths of Keith Porter, a Black man who was killed in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, and Renee Nicole Good, a legal observer who was killed yesterday in Minneapolis in broad daylight by an ICE agent caught on camera, Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, issued the following statement.
“We grieve alongside the loved ones of Keith Porter and Renee Nicole Good, whose lives were cruelly cut short by extrajudicial ICE murders. We stand in solidarity with the LA and Minneapolis communities who will seek to heal amid this administration's ongoing invasions into our neighborhoods, schools, homes, and places of work.
“Make no mistake: ICE’s terror is anything but rogue. The agency is operating exactly as intended and as it has for decades, only now with a record-high level of resources and unfettered power. As we have witnessed across its sprawling yet secretive detention system for decades, ICE and DHS violence is calculated, systemic, and central to the agencies’ broader missions of instilling fear in communities and destroying families through detention, deportation, and, increasingly, death.
“If this administration is willing to blatantly lie even when their wrongdoing is caught on camera, to what lengths are they going behind the walls of their detention camps to terrorize immigrants? We already know 2025 was the deadliest year on record in ICE custody, with over 30 deaths including seven in December alone. We mourn the lives of Keith Porter and Renee Nicole Good, as well as all of those who have died in immigration detention in recent weeks:
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, 42, from Honduras, died January 5, 2025, last detained at the Joe Corley Detention Facility (Conroe, TX).
Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, from Bulgaria, died December 15, 2025, last detained at North Lake Correctional Facility (Baldwin, MI).
Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, 46, from Eritrea, died December 14, 2025, last detained at Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility (Philipsburg, PA).
Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, from Nicaragua, died December 14, 2025, last detained at Adams County Correctional Center (Natchez, MS).
Jean Wilson Brutus, 41, from Haiti, died December 12, 2025, last detained at Delaney Hall Detention Facility (Newark, NJ).
Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, 48, from Pakistan, died December 06, 2025, last detained at Prairieland Detention Facility (Alvarado, TX).
Pete Sumalo Montejo, 72, from Philippines, died December 05, 2025, last detained at Montgomery Processing Center (Conroe, TX).
Francisco Gaspar-Andres, 48, from Guatemala, died December 03, 2025, last detained at El Paso Camp East Montana (El Paso, TX).
“We call upon elected officials at every level to actualize the demands of our communities across the country who are demanding an end to ICE’s terror. As we have seen over the past year, immigration is the tip of the sphere when it comes to Trump and Stephen Miller expanding their police state and authoritarian control. It is up to every person of conscience to resist, disrupt, and reject their agenda of mass deportation, detention, and militarized enforcement.”
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Freedom for Immigrants is an abolitionist organization working to end immigration incarceration by organizing with and following the leadership of currently and formerly incarcerated immigrants. We’re building a future in which all people can move freely and thrive. Learn more at www.freedomforimmigrants.org/.