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We are living in a crisis born of government force, and silence is complicity.

Right now in Minneapolis and across the country, ICE and federal immigration agents are operating like an occupying force raiding neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and families’ homes without accountability.

And the carnage continues.

ICE has murdered three U.S. citizens within weeks:

Keith Porter was killed in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty ICE agent.
Renee Good was shot multiple times by an ICE agent, and her death was ruled a homicide by the county examiner.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a VA ICU nurse with no criminal history, was killed by federal agents and the administration.

ICE agents murdered over 30 people in 2025, and killed six people this year in detention centers. The administration is telling us that what we’re all seeing didn’t happen.

Communities are traumatized. Our neighbors are disappearing into detention systems shrouded in secrecy. Children are being torn from their parents and transported across state lines.

This isn’t isolated. This isn’t “normal.” This is state-sanctioned violence in broad daylight.

And yet the U.S. House gave ICE BILLIONS through September. That money will bankroll more raids, more detentions, more deaths.

This is unacceptable! THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. NOT A POLITE REQUEST!

We are demanding that Senate Democrats use their leverage and that Sen. Schumer help block the 60 votes needed to fund ICE so that ICE’s reign of terror can be stopped.

Not later. Now!

We demand:

No funding for ICE.
No more unmasked agents.

Our Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin have committed to voting NO on ICE funding, but commitments only hold if the pressure does. They cannot back down. Neither can we.

The vote is coming. Lives are on the line. Senate leadership can still block this funding.

Tell Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats to vote against ICE funding. Call Senator Chuck Schumer NOW at (202) 224-6542 or write him at 322 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510. People are dying, families are terrorized, and the Senate can’t bankroll state violence.

Silence is assent

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Michigan United in Action: What you can do about Minneapolis

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We are living in a crisis born of government force, and silence is complicity. Right now in Minneapolis and across the country, ICE and federal immigration agents are operating like an occupying force raiding neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and families’ homes without accountability. And the carnage continues.

ICE agents murdered over 30 people in 2025, and killed six people this year in detention centers. The administration is telling us that what we’re all seeing didn’t happen.

Use our Advocacy Alert below to educate yourself, understand what’s needed and take action. NOW!

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Michigan United on Substack: “American Reflections” on our 2026 MLK Celebration

Substack writer Ty Partridge, author of American Reflections attended our 2026 MLK Day Celebration. It was a day of inspiration, fellowship and recommitting to the cause. In a thank you note to us he adds, “I am deeply thankful for Michigan United for putting this amazing event together. There are few events that one walks out the door a different person than when walking in — This was one. The amount of work that it takes to bring this together is immense and too often invisible.”

Below is an extended excerpt from the article.

“…Walking through the doors, welcomed by greeters and activists with petitions, this place I had never been became familiar.

I am not religious in the sense of believing in some deity or supernatural entity. But the message of human compassion and solidarity, no matter which God or Goddess is believed to be on the answering side of a prayer, is something in which I undeniably believe.

The interior of this careworn building had housed generations of human communion. The deep red carpet had been there for some time. The pews were simple, comfortable, and well-used. The tiles of the basement floor held the memories of people coming together, sharing the griefs and the joys across generations of this community. There was a woman sitting in front of me – her hair was just so, and her outfit not expensive, but well-cared for. I could see she had walked many hard miles in this world, but knew deep in her soul, that despite the hardships, she was truly blessed. The room was full of people, young and old, mostly Black, but not completely. This was a place of sacred connection to one another, where humanity was all that ever mattered. There was a piano – no Hammond organ here – but the spirit of its playing made it grand. This building, these people, was a home.

To celebrate and honor Martin Luther King Jr. was the reason we were all there. But it was his spirit, more than his name that was in the foreground. Dr. King was not celebrated but inhabited. Not the White approved, sanitized Dr. King – the real Martin Luther that lived and breathed.

The message was Abolition.

The message was speaking the truth about ICE on the street, KKK at home.

The message was that everyone matters, everyone is sacred, everyone a child of God.

Reverend Dr Genetta Hatcher was the keynote and she brought ALL the fire.

She spoke from the Book of Judges, when Israel had no king. What was missing was not a leader, but a remembrance of human grace. A terrible injustice born of inhumanity was committed in that time and the people clamored – but they did not act to change the system.

America is living in a time when we have a leader who disdains the people’s consent, claiming he can do whatever he wants. A leader who has no morality, no humanity, no grace. Atrocities are being committed in his name. Injustices are his policy frame. The people are clamoring, but we must do more. We must change the system to rid ourselves of such leaders for evermore.

This work is hard.

This work is dangerous in the way of all moral reckonings for injustice.

This work will elicit the wrath of those who benefit from the suffering of others….”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

The 2026 MLK Award Recipients included:

• Honorary MLK Awards: Posthumously awarded to the Honorable Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and Rene Lichtman. Additional recipients: Minister Malik Shabazz, Rev. Oscar King III, Pastor Sharon Buttry, Pastor Dale Milford, and Rev. Dr. Louis Forsythe.

• Justice Warrior Award: Lexi Tater (Michigan United Action)

• Winnie Mandela Freedom Fighter Award: Christina Hayes (Mothering Justice)

• Mamie Till Political Healer Award: Kai Page

• John Lewis Political Healer Award: Nicholas Buckingham (Michigan Liberation)

• Bayard Rustin Strategist Award: Katrina Manetta (Macomb Defenders Rising)

• Ryan Bates Founder Award: State Rep. Donovan McKinney

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