The killing of protesters and migrants at the hands of ICE is neither an excess nor an operational error; it is the normal functioning of a capitalist state in crisis. Under the farce of bourgeois democracy, state violence is carried out with total impunity to discipline the working class, sow fear, and sustain an economic order that can survive only through repression, deportations, and institutional terror.

The recent protests against ICE raids reflect the just struggle of the working class. But the Democratic Party and its allied NGOs turn these protests into electoral platforms that serve capital’s interests. The solution lies in building independent, class-based organization from our neighborhoods and workplaces.