Join DWN for the second webinar of our Melt ICE series: Detention and Resistance under Trump on Thursday, February 19th, 2026 from 1pm- 2:30pm PT/ 3pm- 4:30pm CT/ 4pm-5:30pm ET. 

ICE and other federal agencies continue to escalate violence against communities across the country under Trump’s second presidency with immigration agencies killing at least seven people in our communities, including Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Their deaths add to the growing and deadly toll of federal immigration enforcement, with at least 6 deaths in ICE detention in January 2026 and 31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025, an all-time high.

This webinar will focus on detention under Trump and how communities have been resisting including in Kansas and California.  

When Trump was inaugurated there were 39,703 people were already held in immigrant detention; more than double the number detained when Biden took office in 2021, that number has since emerged to over 73,000 people detained , surpassing the previous record of 55,000 people detained during Trump’s first administration. Trump continues to push an aggressive expansion of immigrant detention, including proposals to use warehouses. Yet across the country, people are organizing to stop detention expansion and to protect themselves, their immigrant family members, neighbors, and friends who are at risk. Join us in this resistance!