Nationwide economic shutdown set for Friday in protest of ICE policies

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Hundreds of organizations from across the country are staging a nationwide economic shutdown on Friday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and demand an end to ICE operations.

Activists are calling for a day of “no work, no school [and] no shopping” in response to the fatal shootings of at least four people by federal immigration officials in the past two months — including the high-profile shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this month.

“The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country,” organizers of the ICE Out Nationwide Shutdown said in a press release. “To stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN.”