Justice for Renee Good: Defund ICE, Demand Real Border Solutions

Renee Nicole Good Killed While Helping Neighbors — Trump's EO Prioritizes Venezuelan Stability Abroad While Deadly Tactics Rage Unchecked at Home

We must clean this up—now. A preventable tragedy has exposed a broken system that endangers lives and betrays justice. Tens of thousands marched in Minneapolis on January 10, braving snow and ice, demanding accountability and ICE’s removal. Protests have spread nationwide, proving this movement is becoming unstoppable.

President Trump’s January 9 Executive Order shields Venezuelan oil revenues to stabilize the country, curb migration, and combat narcotics—yet it highlights glaring hypocrisy: protecting foreign funds abroad while allowing deadly ICE tactics at home. It’s time to reform ICE, redirect resources to real safety, and build a humane system.

Domestic

• Channel the Spark of Outrage: Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, mother of three, award-winning poet, and community volunteer, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 in her SUV on a snowy Minneapolis street while participating in neighborhood patrols to monitor and document ICE operations.

• Transform Grief into Solidarity: Agents surrounded her car, issued conflicting and confusing orders, then opened fire as she attempted to drive away to safety; bystander videos captured the agents blocking a doctor from providing immediate medical aid, leaving her airbag blood-soaked and her family devastated.

• Defend Our Sanctuary Legacy: Minneapolis has proudly stood as a sanctuary city and beacon for immigrants and justice for years—now we must clean up ICE’s aggressive and often violent tactics that directly undermine our inclusive values and put residents at serious risk.

• Push for Immediate Change: We are demanding real cleanup measures including defunding harmful ICE operations, redirecting those resources to supportive community safety programs, enforcing strict independent oversight, and holding agents fully accountable—these practical steps are within reach and must be implemented now.

• Inspire a Nationwide Movement: Protests began at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis and rapidly spread to major cities including Houston, Denver, Austin, Indianapolis, Norfolk, Fresno, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and beyond—proving that a victory here will inspire and empower communities everywhere to join the fight for justice.

International

• National Emergency Declaration: The Executive Order declares a national emergency by warning that judicial seizures of Venezuelan funds could worsen instability, increase migration, and heighten drug flows into the U.S.—yet it completely ignores how ICE’s chaotic and violent domestic actions breed widespread distrust and fear among communities.

• Fund Protections in Place: All attachments, liens, garnishments, and transfers of these oil-derived funds are prohibited and deemed null and void unless explicitly authorized—demonstrating the administration’s strong priority on safeguarding foreign assets while failing to address or prevent deadly enforcement practices on American soil.

• Sovereign Status Affirmed: The funds are officially defined and treated as sovereign property of the Venezuelan government held in custodial capacity by the U.S., with no commercial use permitted—highlighting a selective and inconsistent protection that demands we urgently address the neglect and loss of American lives at home.

• Foreign Policy Objectives: The order seeks to counter malign influences such as Iran and Hezbollah, promote prosperity in Venezuela, and reduce border pressures through regional stability—but we must clean up the hypocrisy by insisting these international goals be paired with genuine, humane domestic reforms.

• Administrative Directives: The Treasury and State Departments are tasked with managing the funds, asserting sovereign immunity in courts, and reporting to Congress—showing that policy can and does shift under sustained pressure, so let’s apply that same determined force to clean up ICE and immigration enforcement.

• Exposed Double Standard: While the administration loudly claims to be fighting narcotics trafficking originating from Venezuela, it overlooks and fails to confront how ICE’s violent overreach and lack of accountability at home actively fuels fear, division, community distrust, and the very instability it pretends to solve.

From frozen streets to federal corridors, this broken system must be cleaned up before it claims more lives. The administration shielding Venezuelan funds to fight drugs abroad cannot ignore ICE’s dangers at home. This war—against families, communities, and humanity—must end, both at home and abroad.

Vito Corleone’s skepticism toward the narcotics business—calling it a “dirty business” that would cost him his political connections and destroy them in the long run, as he refused Sollozzo’s proposal—mirrors the hypocrisy we face today: protecting foreign interests tied to claims of fighting drug flows from Venezuela while allowing a destructive system to ravage lives at home. That same principled refusal ultimately led to the slaughter of his son Sonny, yet it paved the way for Vito to broker a fragile peace among the families—proving that rejecting the “dirty” path, even at great personal cost, can ultimately lead to a more stable and just outcome.

We echo that resolve today. Stand with Minneapolis. Take action today—call your representatives, join sanctuary campaigns, support affected families, sign petitions, organize locally. Demand ICE’s withdrawal and total cleanup—for our communities, our values, and a future without fear. Our power grows when we stand together. We will clean this up, together, and we will win.