[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
My friends and I have been yelling about this shit since at least the early Bush administration and before that we were too young to be politically involved.
It’s really dangerous to lump people into groups like this all it does is cause division.
The thing is that they started to kill bystander not the suspects cuz they resided and situation escalated
Cheap joke with no added value besides demoralizing and dividing the good side. This is not the way.
Reflecting on past mistakes isn’t necessarily demoralizing, realizing that this isnt a new thing is good for future analysis. Hopefully everyone will come out too when the following George Floyd gets inevitably murdered
That’s a bad example precisely because people did come out for George Floyd. What all these cases have in common is video evidence. A next one should not be acceptable, that’s a defeating attitude right there.
George Floyd was famously a movement for Black Lives Matter, and there was no suggestion of general strike
There was also no absolute systemic instability at that point. the seeds of it were there, but there was still hope to change the system.
Wait, this has been going on since 2018‽
How did they cover it up back then?
That should have been harder and we should have seen this coming.It’s never been covered up.
This has always been very public knowledge, with which the US population was complacent.
Biden was not primary’d out despite having a role in this, proving that even progressives were fine with it.
Trump was reelected despite knowledge that he would make the situation worse, proving a lot of the US population loves this.
Liberals only started caring about the death camp police once they started shooting people in public, and are now feeling rightfully afraid since ICE is ok killing whites too now. I fear that the ongoing movement is going to be a defensive one, do a bit of defund ICE roleplay, stop when ICE says ok we’re not shooting people on the streets anymore you win, and be fine with that conclusion. A complete dismantling and prosecution of ICE, including a liberation of all the migrants in the camps (especially the thousands “lost” by the system) is the only way forward otherwise the death toll will keep getting worse - 2026 is already the worst year on record in that regard and we’re still in january.
Insert the MLK quote on white liberals being worse enemies to minorities than the KKK. Don’t care much about this thread’s feelings by now since they’ve demonstrated they only care how the situation affects their own feelings, instead of seeing that there is a bigger picture of a social justice fight for migrants being potentially derailed by liberals who are only looking for justice for themselves. I would hate to be the “told you so” person in a while after this whole thing fizzles out and nothing changes, praying time proves me wrong.
Biden was not primary’d out despite having a role in this
I honestly don’t think of a President as more than a figurehead.
They might end up showing different things depending upon the party in power, but what goes on underneath, stays the same.
My main problem with this is, in 2018, customs were memed to be those that steal stuff on airport checkpoints and none of the above reached me.
Are they a separate governmental unit from ICE?The abolish ICE movement is not new, it already existed throughout the first Trump presidency. It mostly stopped during the Biden presidency since he showed good will by reversing the most abusive of Trump’s policies right away (proving he wasn’t a mere figurehead and had the power to provide change), but the core rot of border patrol prison camps and treating migrants like cattle never stopped.
I honestly don’t think of a President as more than a figurehead.
Yet his primaries were the best opportunity to send a clear signal that progressives were fed up with his inwards dehumanizing policies and his outwards genocidal policies. Not many seemed to care as he had no real opposition. At some point people have to take responsibility for being complacent, and instead of feeling fragile about it or personally attacked by it (this whole thread), understanding that this is about learning from the past, and figuring out what to do in order for this to never happen again in the future.
People knew extremely well what ICE was and did, since after Trump won a common “joke” on social media was threats to call ICE on the latinos or arabs that voted for Trump. I remember seeing many of those, and being disgusted at how some progressives will only support minorities as long as they support them, and treated ICE as a joke despite the murders still going on.
I guess I just didn’t check out enough media avenues to catch those back then.
Perhaps the same as what’s going on now with a lot of other people who are unrelated enough, with the incidents.yeah. i’ve been attending abolish ice movement meetings since 2009. this isn’t a new movement, it’s just become something that’s become so visible it can’t be unseen at all. it’s like how the Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 but people think of it as starting in 2020.
too many people view things as starting when they find out about them, and too many people are too hard on people for genuinely not knowing something was going on. we have a horrifying torment machine that’s killing us all and if we lose control of what the truth is we might be fucked for an extraordinarily long time.
so do tell people these things are going on and have been going on for a long time. tell people where you learned about this and where they can find out more. don’t be a scold. don’t tolerate anyone who flat out denies the opportunity to educate themselves or be educated.
we don’t have time to relitigate the 2020 primaries to figure out which of the progressive voices was the one progressives should have rallied around to avoid the neoliberal wing continuing to control the dnc, but we do have to learn our lessons of how the vote was split handing biden the election, despite the fact he was bascially everyone’s 4th choice out of 16. and most of all, we need ranked choice ballots so people can truly cast votes that matter instead of letting the machinery of the party continue the illusion of choice.
To be fair, media underreporting the suffering of minorities is part of the equation.
It would be naive to think race isn’t a factor here, but documentation of the crime is also a huge portion of it as well. I have seen the murder of Renee Good from at least 3 different angles, and Alex Pretti from 4, including the exact moment they shot him in the back. There are certainly a lot of Americans that would be more likely to justify this if they had been PoC, but there was also a lot of national outrage over Eric Garner and George Floyd because of how heavily documented those murders were.
I feel like this is super accurate. Of course its a factor but like all things race doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are other major contributing factors at play and I like this comment.
Part of the reason we are seeing such an active protest movement now is that ICE is doing its thing in Minneapolis, which was able to mobilize the existing activist network that was created as a result of the police murder of notable
whiteblack person George Floyd. This murder was national news and led to police reform in a bunch of states.When notable
whiteSalvadorian person Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegal deported to a foreign torture prison, there was nation wide protest, with Senate Chris Van Hollen traveling to El Salvador. This nationwide protest movement eventually secured his release.Oh yeah. I had Americunts fuming and frothing at the suggestion that they only started taking ICE committed atrocities seriously after a white American citizen was shot in the face.
“B-b-buT…”
NOT a single one admitted racism being the issue.
Anyway, it’s good that they’re doing something now at least.
That’s the way it always seems to work. Watch how fast gun legislation gets put through when a politician’s kid gets caught up in a school shooting.
Watch how fast the conversation changes when the protests aren’t just “radical extremists from the left”.
What’s that line? “Soon, they will have been against this all along…”
Better late than never, we can hold ppl accountable for inaction AFTER we beat the system
If you don’t address the inaction, you won’t beat the system. “We can address all the systemic issues in our movement after our movement succeeds” has borne out in history approximately 0 times. More often either the movement fails entirely or it’s coopted by its most conservative elements who turn it into something completely different.
If action is your goal, then when you see action, you support it. Address the inaction of those who are not acting, and support those who are. Bitching about the way it was is not helpful.
No part of what you said addresses my point, so I’ll repeat myself: Resistance movements have to worry about being coopted from the inside almost as much as they do about being crushed from the outside. Introspection and self-awareness are crucial if this movement is going to survive. Internal conflict is often rightly cited as a danger to any movement, but it’s also a survival mechanism that shouldn’t be shut down out of hand.
“Uh Oh people seem to be uniting in solidarity. Guess we better find a way to tear them apart!”
OP probably.
let op vent. Black and brown people have every fucking right to be pissed at the sudden shift from the daily lackadaisical attitude of white people while black and brown people have been lynched on streets for decades for fighting for your rights. When black and brown people win, white people win. When black and brown people lose, white people keep on goin. White people are suddenly inconvenienced at the ideo that they no longer have a second amendment. Welcome to the daily lives of black and brown people you have been unaware of until now since white people are finally rejecting their capital W Whiteness.
Previous years white people put up a black avatar on instagram for george floyd and brianna taylor. Now theyre willing to die when its white people.
Major shift in attitude from the whites and yes its about damn time white people woke up to the violence. Keep putting your bodies in the front though and do some good
Gourmet comment.
It’s good to feel heard in the sea of fragile whiteness on display in this comment section.
Have a beautiful day.
propagandist.
not to mention the horrors that are probably happening under wraps at their concentration camps and prisons.
immigrants are being abducted left and right for a while now.
*citizens (at least some of the time)
Stop trying to divide us when we are trying to unite. The white people that are getting killed are the ones trying to help and warn their neighbors. Keep making them feel guilty and they may just give up.
This. People were already protesting ICE long before Renée Good got killed. The racists, white supremacists, and nazis are still not protesting today. They don’t care if a murdered protestor is white. A Nazi is going to view any white protesters as race traitors. What’s happening right now is a dramatic shift in the scope of what ICE is doing. Rather than simply targeting immigrants, it’s being deployed against protestors and in crowd control efforts. The extent of people they’re targeting and how they’re targeting them is dramatically expanding as well.
In 2025, at least 32 people died in custody after being detained by ICE. This has caused massive protests nationwide.
But in 2025, there were only 2 people known to have been shot and killed by ICE:
Silverio Villegas González - September 12 - undocumented immigrant shot and killed by ICE in his car after dropping his kids off at school in Chicago. Video circulated online of his window getting broken out and him getting dragged out of the car after being shot.
Keith Porter - December 31 - African American father shot and killed in Los Angeles while allegedly setting off fireworks. There are no videos of what happened.
The first people shot and killed by ICE in 2026 include:
Renée Good - January 7 - woman shot and killed in her vehicle in Minneapolis. Videos of the incident circulated online. She was not actively protesting.
Alex Pretti - January 24 - protestor murdered execution style in Minneapolis for attempting to help a woman get safely to a sidewalk.
That’s it. This image includes completely incorrect information. Jaime Alanís Garcia died from breaking his neck after allegedly falling 30 feet from a building while a cannabis farm was being raided by ICE in Ventura County, California. ICE and CBP claims they were not targeting him. There’s no video of the incident.
Stuff is dramatically escalating, and it’s presumably about to get much much worse.
I agree. I’m minority and I support starting to be pissed at this at any level and time. Just stick to it until its not a problem anymore.
Just stick to it until its not a problem anymore.
Reciprocated solidarity forges alliances that endure long after the immediate threat.
Why do you see it as divisive to point out how many more victims there have been? If your immediate reaction to this comic was to get defensive, I think you should take a minute and do some introspection.
It’s more the implication that the white victims shouldn’t matter and people shouldn’t be upset because the victims happened to be white this time.
While also conveniently ignoring the fact that people were already upset about ICE violence even before they killed white people…
Nowhere does the comic say that though?
The subtext is glaringly obvious, and pretending not to see it is disingenuous at best.
Nowhere does the comic say that any victim doesn’t matter. Nowhere does the comic say you shouldn’t be upset. Quite the opposite, the comic says you should’ve been upset a long time ago.
I think the fact that you’re reading the most aggressive interpretation you can think of into it in order to find an excuse to be defensive says more about yourself than it does about the comic.
Except for the simple fact that a lot of people already have been upset for a long time.
The comic assumes that people are just now getting upset. If that’s your take every time a victim happens to be white, then that says more about you than it does about me.
Sure, some people have been upset already. But the difference in volume before and after the most recent killings shows that quite a lot of people are just now getting upset. If that isn’t you, good, but then why are you acting like this comic is a personal attack on you?
If pointing out a racial bias is all it takes to make some people give up, then… that sounds like a pretty big issue idk
Nice try twisting my words.
His point is clear and based, there is a structural bigotry problem in the USA.
I cannot understand how you are so much up voted, and he is so much down voted 🤷🏽
No shit. I think even the bigots themselves know this by now, they just choose to embrace it.
Americans are raised to associate with race and when something hits “closer to home” it’s more likely to trigger more people. This happens with gender issues, sexual orientation, etc. We should all care about these issues, but the statistics of activation on an issue will always be higher with groups that identify with the target.
This holds true with all these folks (assumably POC) who are upset about people getting upset about ICE murdering people, implying that we shouldn’t care because the victims were white; and implying that anybody who gets upset when the victims happen to be white are somehow racists, even though they have no clue how that particular person responded to the killings of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, and all the other incidents that precipitated racial justice movements.
You might be a white person, and perhaps you support a racial justice movement whenever it happens, but is that going to matter a few years from now when they repeat the same old tired rhetoric that “white people never cared when the victims were POC”?
But if we’re not supposed to care now, simply because the victims happened to be white, then anybody pushing that line of rhetoric are ironically the actual racists.
I’m a non-racialized person from a non-English speaking EU country.
But my understanding of OP post is that he wanted to raise some rational info that people in a justified state of rage should have. Info that could open a rational debate and/or introspection exercise of how mass media has been shown them and, also, how people are reacting to them… But mostly, it cemented the rage showing how systemic is the state violence against the people.
Reading some answers, my reaction has been:
WTF: Don’t kill the messenger,
redactedkill ICE.What is a “non-racialized person”? I’m genuinely curious, because in america people say things like “colorblindness is racism,” and that even though I tried not to see race when I was younger, somehow that made me racist?
OP was not raising “rational info,” he posted a political cartoon criticizing people for being upset about ICE murdering people who happened to be white. There’s nothing rational about that.
Wow what a lot of fucking straw.
As much straw as implying “All white people are racist because none of them cared about ICE until some white people got murdered”?
White people who got murdered while… obstructing ICE? As if they didn’t care until after they got murdered?
Keep pretending no white people supported BLM in 2020, then be surprised when white people start their own movements instead of letting you bully them into following yours.
If your issue is with the people saying “ICE violence is not okay,” then you’re part of the problem.
I’m one of the upvoters. Never really looked at it through a racism lense, more of a Dem/Rep lense. Wish libs had more of a problems with death in ICE custody during the Biden years. Wish libs had more of a problem with deportations during the Obama years. Wish libs had more of a problem with wars and dropping of bombs on Muslim countries during Obama years. But the comments here are right. It sucks that this is what it takes, but I’ll take it. It sucks that libs cared so much for Ukraine because they’re white, but I’ll take it. It sucks that middle east journalist have to find some white looking people in Palestine to get people to care, but I’ll take it.
I cannot understand how you are so much up voted, and he is so much down voted 🤷🏽
i can. white people feel offended.
I guess if it doesn’t matter to you if white people feel offended, then it shouldn’t matter to you if POC feel offended either, right? Equal rights, after all.
If such-and-such group of people’s feelings don’t matter, no one’s do. You can’t make exceptions just because you’re not from such-and-such group; otherwise you have no rational basis to assert that such-and-such group can’t make exceptions about you.
See: categorical imperative; universal maxims
Even r/comics on reddit has more interesting/constructive takes on this comic, which is worrying for Lemmy.
This one Redditor (Calli5031) puts it much more elegantly than me:
it’s absolutely a good thing that white people are starting to get organized and get out into the streets to resist the regime. it’s also frustrating (and indicative of how deep the white supremacist rot runs in our society) that the point at which “people can’t excuse state violence as an occasional occurrence” isn’t the decades of abuse, rape, and murder of migrants and people and color, but the point at which it disturbs white safety and comfort.
i’m sure plenty of the current crop of white anti-ICE protesters were probably against state violence in the abstract sense, but the fact that they weren’t moved to action before now isn’t a neutral fact existing in some contextless, ahistorical vacuum, it is reflective of the fact that, consciously or not, white america simply does not value black lives the same as white ones.
That would make sense, there are a lot more conservative bootlickers on reddit.
Yes, you are right that we all should have been up in arms sooner, but we weren’t. It sucks. And here we are now, fighting the same fight; can we all agree who the real enemy is and focus on that for the moment?
Why pretend people weren’t already upset about ICE before they killed Good and Pretti? Why feed this person’s delusions that white people didn’t care before this?
That’s kind of insulting to all the people (yes, white people included) who have been protesting and actively resisting since this whole thing started, don’t you think?
Am I pretending that?
Good and Pretti themselves were both white frontline protesters, among many others who have been at it for a long time. They’re role models.
Whatever reading comprehension disaster is going on in this comment section is something else
If you aren’t arguing that white people have only begun protesting/caring about things now because they think it affects them, then your comic does not make its point clearly.
In any case, after double-checking, two of the non-white people you directly point out as shot and killed by ICE were undocumented. I’m not actually sure one was even shot since skimming a few sources indicates he fell off a roof and died from that during a raid. Obviously being undocumented doesn’t justify getting killed, but that’s another difference (citizen vs. undocumented noncitizen) between Good and Pretti that you’ve chosen to ignore in favor of solely basing your comic on them being white or not.
Also, AFAIK the Porter incident doesn’t have video footage (can’t remember if the others do either). The Good and Pretti cases have significant footage, so it’s particularly easy to spread clips over social media.
Oddly enough, you just contradicted your own message and then blamed it on my reading comprehension. Way to go.
Maybe try examining how your comic reflects on people like Good and Pretti, who you yourself describe as white frontline protestors, and who gave their lives while protesting against what’s going on.
Maybe don’t paint an entire race of people with a broad brush, and then people won’t call you racist.
Well good, now that you’re focused on the moment, it’s a perfect time to remind you (or make you aware) that ICE actually murdered many more people than most think, that there are thousands of people “lost in the system” that ICE can’t track and whose lawyers and families can’t find, and that the way the agency operates is a systemic issue that has existed for over a decade, long before the recent escalations.
Now you know the actual scope of your enemy: defunding them isn’t enough, that shit needs to be pulled by the roots and dismantled piece by piece until there’s not a trace of them left. If it’s not done all the way through, it won’t end with Trump (after all it continued operating and killing under Biden). If people only protest the public murders instead of the very existence of ICE and their concentration camp system well… the camps will still be there.
See, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Making sure we’re fighting the same fight, and understanding who the enemy really is.
I love how badly you’re getting ratio’d.
Take this opportunity for self reflection.
This comment section is the only platform on which I’m being ratio’d fwiw.
Been making satire long enough to not care much when people get mad, I stand firmly by the things I write.
Might be an indication that this audience thinks more deeply about what you’re implying. Which 100% tracks with my experience on every social media platform compared to Lemmy.
The Fediverse suffers from extreme whiteness, that’s all there is to it.
I think that’s a better explanation when comparing the nature/contents of the conversations it’s spawning on different platforms.
Not the first time I’m noticing it either.
This is blatantly racist, what the hell is wrong with you?
You would have absolutely no fucking way of knowing that is true. Go ahead, keep attacking people you pretend are your allies. Definitely what’s needed now.
These incidents are totally only getting attention because of race and Lemmy is the most racist. Totally nothing to do with the other killings you list not being on video. Totally not that /s
You talk as if whiteness is a disease, and then you act all self-righteous when people treat you like you’re being a bigot?
You’re doing so much to stop ICE by telling people they shouldn’t care about these incidents simply because the victims were white.
Thanks for sharing it.
I don’t think you know what satire is
the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
I doubt anything can be more satirical than making a comic that portrays in an exaggerated way some people’s blind spot for racial issues until they affect them personally in the context of contemporary politics.
Guessing your definition is “things I agree with are satire and things that upset me aren’t” :)
The only satire you seem to produce is how you try to defend your work.
Please check which of these you think your comic is
[ ] humour [ ] irony [ ] exaggeration [ ] ridicule
I’m not sure why you think I’m upset. If I’m upset by anything its you whining about a handful of American deaths while Israel is committing a genocide. Why are you so racially biased?
Reading comprehender.
Is it not a racial bias when you say “People shouldn’t care about this because the victims were white this time.”
If people are upset about ICE violence, why break the momentum and sow division simply because the victims weren’t POCs? What are you trying to accomplish?
I get it, but if this is the line for somebody, then that person is finally angry at the right people for the right reasons. You can tell them off and bicker amongst yourselves after its over. Just be glad theyre finally on the right side for now.
The best ‘convert’ is the one that got there on their own. They’re already primed to believe us when we warn next time.
We do harm by mocking the leopards-ate-my-face crowd when they finally catch on. Even if it is cathartic.
There’s room to tell them “Oh that thing we warned you about actually happened? maybe we weren’t crazy”, but we should then welcome them in and guide them instead of a rude “I told ya so” and no empathy.
Exactly. As the ol’ saying goes: “the Right looks for converts, the Left looks for traitors.” We need to change that.
The reason the far right has grown so much is because of how they bring people into the fold. “oh, you were one of them libtards, but now you support our one true god Donald J Trump? Hell yeah brother, welcome to the side of the patriots!!11!1!” vs. “oh you voted for Trump, but now you hate ICE? We warned you this would happen, fuck you Trump voter!”
I’ve been saying this for fucking ages. Thanks for posting it, it’s nice to see.
You’re not on “the right side of history” if you’re just driving people to the fascist right with your rhetoric.
Indistinguishable from Russian propaganda to agitate for class division and disrupt solidarity. Fuck outta here with this self-righteous, tone-deaf slopaganda.
“no go back to fighting each other”
Fuck out of here you propagandist bitch
This is true, but detracts from the cause at the moment
