Overview
- Ariana Grande urged a one-day nationwide shutdown on Jan. 30, telling followers on Instagram to skip work, school, and shopping to protest ICE.
- Amber Rose condemned the appeal as out of touch with working people’s finances and challenged whether wealthy celebrities would offset lost wages.
- The protests trace to recent deaths involving federal agents in Minneapolis, including Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, which the FBI is investigating.
- CBP said two agents were placed on administrative leave after a fatal shooting, and a preliminary DHS report to Congress described both officers firing during a struggle with Pretti after earlier statements suggested he had drawn a gun.
- Legal scrutiny intensified as a federal judge halted a family’s deportation case and ordered acting ICE director Todd Lyons to court, while Rep. Joaquín Castro visited a five-year-old held at the Dilley facility.