On January 24 of this year, Alex Pretti was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while he was disarmed, pepper-sprayed, and lying on the ground. Pretti is now one of many people who have been murdered or irreparably harmed by ICE this year, including Renee Good, also in Minnesota, Keith Porter, who was killed by an off-duty ICE officer at his own home, or Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year old boy detained with his father, then returned home, and who the Trump administration is now targeting again for deportation. Human rights violations, including torture, are being credibly documented on a daily basis within Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detention centers. With a political system unequipped or unwilling to take action, many people are wondering what can be done, if anything, to stop this rapid descent into fascism. Calls for general strikes are resurfacing, a once-powerful political and economic tool that has long lain dormant in American labor politics.

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