Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations have spread across the country in the wake of federal agents’ killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month.
The latest protests, billed as a nationwide shutdown, draw inspiration from a one-day general strike held in Minneapolis last month, and embrace economic disruption as a new strategy to resist the Department of Homeland Security’s militarized occupation of Democratic-led cities.
The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti drew bipartisan outrage and sparked a new round of protests on Jan. 30, when people across the United States missed work and school as part of an anti-ICE shutdown.
