This Weekend: “Disappeared In America” Actions Demand Justice and Due Process for Immigrant Families
This Weekend: “Disappeared In America” Actions Demand Justice and Due Process for Immigrant FamiliesThousands Across the Country will Hold Vigils, Protests, and Cultural Events to Stop Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda WASHINGTON, D.C. — This weekend, (November 1-2), thousands of people across the United States will take to the streets, public squares, courthouses, and ICE facilities as part of the Disappeared In America Weekend of Action — a coordinated nationwide effort to end - the detention, deportation, and disappearance of our neighbors and to defend the due process rights of all people. On Thursday, October 30 Disappeared In America partner groups held a press conference in Washington, DC, honoring lives lost in ICE detention amid the deadliest year in decades. The livestream can be viewed here. This event kicked off the broader weekend of action which will feature more than 140 Freedom Vigils, Día de los Muertos memorials, and ICE Out of Home Depot actions organized by immigrant rights advocates, faith groups, and community organizations under the Disappeared In America banner. Together, these events will send a powerful message: no one should be disappeared by their government. Events are being held in towns and cities across the country including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Savannah, Austin, Omaha, Las Cruces, Tallahassee, the Everglades and dozens of other locations. See a full map of events here. The Disappeared In America campaign highlights the erosion of due process, family separation, and the rise of authoritarian tactics targeting immigrant communities and undermining the rights of us all. The coordinated actions are meant to unite local organizing efforts under one national call for accountability, compassion, and justice. Building on the momentum of the No Kings protests of October 18 — which drew millions into the streets to reject authoritarian rule and demand democratic accountability — this weekend’s actions aim to transform outrage into sustained local action. Events and Highlights Include:
Each local event is community-led, accessible, and designed to be participatory — from small intimate gatherings to larger rallies and creative cultural demonstrations. Nanci Palacios Godinez, Organizing and Membership Director, Detention Watch Network: "Immigration detention is deadly – 2025 is the deadliest year in ICE custody in decades. People in immigration detention are describing it as ‘hell on earth’ because it is. What we’re seeing now is the heightened cruelty of the Trump administration’s massive detention expansion plan, which is exacerbating the inhumane conditions inherent to ICE’s detention system. ICE subjects people to medical neglect, overcrowding, horrendous conditions of confinement, and rampant transfers that disappear people into the detention system, sowing confusion and cutting people off from their loved ones and support networks. Our message is clear: Immigrant lives are of value, and immigrants deserve safety, dignity and respect. We mourn the loss of life in ICE custody, valued loved ones who deserved to return to their families alive.” The Workers Circle: Ann Toback, CEO: “As Jews, we know what happens when good people stay silent while neighbors are dragged from their homes. We know the progression from targeting “others” to targeting anyone who resists. But you don’t need to be Jewish to recognize these patterns. Anyone with a shred of decency can see where this leads. This weekend thousands of people will peacefully and publicly demand an end to the government-sponsored abduction, detention, deportation, and disappearance of our neighbors. Together we will say, not on our watch, not in our nation, not to our neighbors.” — Ann Toback, CEO, The Workers Circle: Jewish culture for a just world Lisa Gilbert, Co-President of Public Citizen: “The Constitution clearly outlines the right to due process, but for the past 10 months, masked federal agents have brazenly torn through our communities, often without warrants, racially profiled and disappeared individuals while intimidating community members who try to stop them. While families are struggling to meet their essential needs, Republicans in Congress have decided that pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into ICE and DHS to terrorize our communities is its highest priority. Everyone should be alarmed by this use of government overreach. When our neighbors, friends and coworkers are attacked, we are all under attack.” Pablo Alvarado, NDLON Co-Executive Director: “This weekend, we immigrants and our families will show the country how our love transcends all borders and boundaries. Because nothing — not raids, not threats, not detention or deportation, not even death — can sever our connections to the loved ones we honor and remember. And nothing will stop us from fighting to save our families and ourselves from this administration. In a season of growing darkness, the light we carry burns bright. And the power we are gathering is unstoppable. We have no masks to hide our faces. No guns, drones or helmets, no weapons but our words and voices. And we have one another, and we have the truth, and we have love to drive out hate and violence. That is enough.” Rachel O’Leary Carmona, Executive Director of Women’s March: “When our government disappears immigrants – detaining people without due process, tearing families apart, and spreading fear – it’s not just an attack on one community, it’s an attack on democracy itself. We cannot accept or normalize such abhorrent injustices against our neighbors, our children, and our community members. But when corporations like Home Depot turn a blind eye when ICE turns their storefronts into hunting grounds, it makes them complicit. This weekend of action is about making it clear that we stand shoulder to shoulder with immigrant communities across the country. We are here to demand accountability, justice and protection for all." Anu Joshi, National Campaign Director for Immigration at the ACLU: "Disappearing people without due process and detaining immigrants in abusive facilities isn't just an affront to our values -- it's an affront to the rule of law and our democracy at large. We're taking action this weekend in hundreds of communities nationwide to make it clear that the administration's anti-immigrant actions will not go unchecked." Analilia Mejia and DaMareo Cooper, Co-Executive Directors for Popular Democracy: “We’re mourning the precious lives lost in ICE custody — mothers, fathers, workers, neighbors — people who came here seeking safety and instead found neglect and violence. Right now in America, human beings are being moved like inventory, from one state or country to another, without warning or record. Due process is what stands between a democracy and a dictatorship, between dignity and disappearance. Every disappearance is a violation of the 14th Amendment's promise that no person shall be deprived of life or liberty without due process." Background: The Disappeared In America campaign brings together a diverse coalition of immigrant rights, faith-based, racial justice, and pro-democracy organizations determined to expose and resist the Trump administration’s abuses of power. The campaign’s mission is rooted in defending the basic principles of justice, transparency, and Constitutional rights — values that are under direct threat when people can be detained, deported, or disappeared without accountability. Through collective action and visual storytelling, Disappeared In America seeks to humanize the impact of these policies and mobilize Americans to demand change. For more information, to locate an event near you, or to arrange interviews with organizers and impacted families, visit www.disappearedinamerica.org ### END ### ### |
