On Sunday, February 1, 2026, hundreds of people took to the streets of Montreal to confront the violence and terror unleashed by United States immigration enforcement and the Trump regime. In front of the US Consulate, the ICE OUT of Minnesota demonstration erupted in fierce solidarity with the people of Minnesota and in unambiguous resistance to fascist state repression. This rally was a collective denunciation of the deadly power of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the ongoing crackdown on Black, brown, and working-class communities across the United States — a backlash against an administration that sends armed agents into our streets instead of justice.
Approximately 250 comrades joined the protest to loudly condemn the murders of Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, two lives stolen by federal agents in Minneapolis in recent weeks. These state-sanctioned killings have ignited waves of resistance nationwide, sparking movements demanding accountability, abolition of ICE, and justice for oppressed communities.
After marching and chanting in front of the consulate, the crowd moved into Dorchester Square Park, where grassroots voices and representatives from Montreal’s social justice organizations took the stage. They ripped into the complicity of private security firms like GardaWorld, criticized federal subsidies that prop up ICE operations, and exposed the violent militarization of borders and communities. Speakers made it clear that Canada’s own policies — including the repressive Bill C-12 attacking refugee and migrant rights — are part of the same regime of exclusion, deportation, and state violence. They warned of an approaching surge in deportations and called for cross-border solidarity and collective struggle against systems that profit from the dispossession and death of migrants.
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