'ICE Out of Everywhere' Protests Hit All 50 States at ICE Facilities and Congressional Offices
On January 31, 2026, a coalition led by the 50501 movement and the Women’s March organized more than 300 “ICE Out of Everywhere” protests as a follow-up action to the previous day’s National Shutdown. The demonstrations targeted ICE detention centers, ICE field offices, and members’ congressional district offices across all fifty states, demanding that lawmakers “stop funding ICE” and remove federal immigration agents from local communities. CNN described “massive crowds of protestors marching across the nation,” and organizers claimed roughly 50,000 people again turned out in Minneapolis — the movement’s epicenter following the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.
The January 31 actions extended the wave of demonstrations that ran through January and February 2026 in response to fatal shootings by immigration agents under the second Trump administration — most notably the killing of Renée Good and the Portland shootings, and later further fueled by the killing of Alex Pretti. By directing protesters specifically at ICE facilities and congressional offices rather than diffuse downtown rallies, organizers paired moral-witness presence at the sites of enforcement with direct legislative pressure on the appropriations that sustain it.
Structurally, the two-day sequence (Jan 30 economic blackout, Jan 31 all-50-states facility-and-office actions) demonstrates a deliberate division of tactical labor within the opposition coalition: one day of withdrawal-based economic pressure, one day of physical-presence pressure at the precise institutional nodes — detention infrastructure and the congressional offices that fund it. That a Minnesota-originated mobilization reproduced itself in all fifty states within roughly 72 hours marks the consolidation of anti-ICE resistance into a standing national network rather than a series of isolated regional flashpoints.
Sources & Citations
The Cascade Ledger. “'ICE Out of Everywhere' Protests Hit All 50 States at ICE Facilities and Congressional Offices.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, January 31, 2026. https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-01-31--all-50-states-ice-facility-protests/