Introduction
Immigrant detention, Black mass incarceration, confinement of Indigenous peoples: Interconnected technologies of racialized Fascist domination
It is clear that with the finals of the World Cup happening 10 miles away from Delaney Hall, a concentration camp full of global south citizens, the US, ICE and affiliated gangster Police Departments are abusing migrants, criminalizing support and dissent. The expansive carceral state that now includes the warehousing of detainees for the better part of two decades is yet another glaring example of the US’s lawlessness and gangsterism.
(Black Alliance for Peace Activist, Micaela Bastidas)
GEO Group, the private prison company operating the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall, represents the merging of state responsibilities and private capital that is the hallmark of the fascist governing logic of crisis-ridden, late-stage capitalism. This stage of monopoly capital, confronting the irreconcilable contradictions embedded in its own structure, requires that all pretense of a commitment to the values and practices of liberal democracy—championed by elements of the Enlightenment bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the height of its ascendancy in Europe—be jettisoned as a burden to the continued hegemony of capitalist rule.
The promise of liberal democracy was always a fictitious construction meant to obscure the reality of the oligarchic capitalist dictatorships that emerged in the West, drawing their material base and power from genocide and enslavement in what became the “Americas,” and later from global Western colonialism, representing the first wave of global fascism.
We are currently experiencing the third wave of fascism. The first wave was the European colonial/global conquest that began in 1492, the second wave was interwar European fascism of the 1920s and 1930s when colonial fascism was reintroduced into European politics as a result of the post-imperialist war capitalist crisis, third is the contemporary period that began after the capitalist crisis of 2008 and intensified with Trump, Biden and the return of Trump in 2025. This contemporary wave of neofascism has its own particularities, even though its underlying class logic remains rooted in racialization and extreme nationalism, operationalized through extreme forms of state terror, militarism, and the most advanced techniques of psychological manipulation ever devised.
These particular forms are what the Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Repression and Militarization will examine below.
One of the defining features of neofascism in the United States is its particular forms of racialization and the systematic use of the national security state apparatus to manage, control, and contain populations that capitalist rulers have deemed threatening, superfluous, or disposable. One of the principal mechanisms of this containment is reflected in the policies of immigrant detention and the mass incarceration of African Americans and Indigenous peoples. But these institutions are only part of a broader system of comprehensive state violence. This year alone, at least 22 people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody or as a result of various forms of ICE violence as of early July 2026, including another ICE shooting on July 13.
Immigrant detention is a tool of racialized social control. This reality is reflected in the struggle unfolding at the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall in New Jersey. GEO Group’s role highlights the convergence of profit and incarceration, revealing Delaney Hall as far more than an immigration processing center. But what makes Delaney Hall especially significant is that it has become a site of resistance. The detainees embarked on a hunger and labor strike demanding improved conditions, but more importantly, an end to their detention. That resistance was met with systematic state violence.
The other major issue we want to bring to the attention of the activist community and the general public is the series of policies enacted over the last several years that have dramatically expanded the repressive capacity of the state. One of the most dangerous, yet least understood, is NSPM-7.
NSPM-7 is a domestic counterinsurgency mechanism that is foundational to the consolidation of the neofascist expansion of the U.S. national security state. It represents the contemporary iteration of state repression historically directed against Black liberation organizations, Indigenous movements, labor militants, Anti-war organizers, and other dissident political currents in the United States.
However, this memorandum is even more explicit and comprehensive in its counterintelligence objectives. It instrumentalizes and expands the concept of “terrorism” to encompass activities that were previously recognized as fundamental democratic and human rights, including freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and the coordination of dissident organizations across state lines.
NSPM-7 expands counterterrorism authorities into the realm of domestic political dissent. It integrates federal, state, and local law enforcement through Joint Terrorism Task Forces. It potentially legitimizes expanded surveillance of social movements. It contributes to the securitization of protest, including anti-racist, pro-migrant, and, in the ultimate Orwellian inversion, explicitly targets anti-fascist organizing. In other words, in the midst of the consolidation of fascism in the United States, it criminalizes anti-fascist opposition.
The objective of this Bulletin is not to frighten but to inform. We are confronting a grave situation in the United States. It has become increasingly clear that both dominant political parties have abandoned any meaningful commitment to the defense of fundamental human rights. The state has become an instrument for the naked perpetuation of the rule of capital, translated into policies that criminalize opposition and increasingly even dissent itself.
Yet we must resist. We must pledge our non-cooperation with immorality. But to be effective, we must also be informed and prepared to organize against the many ways concentrated power moves to crush the will of the people.
Ajamu Baraka
Director, Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en las Personas
Featured Articles
Biddeford shooting victim was not ICE’s intended target, officials say
On July 13th, another immigrant/migrant was killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine.
Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.:
July 13, 2026
Biddeford looking to aid residents in wake of tragedy, mayor says
As protesters continued to line the corner of Main and Water streets by Mechanics Park, Biddeford Mayor Liam LaFountain stopped to talk with reporters.
The only new information he’s learned about Monday morning’s shooting since a statement he made earlier in the day came from Sen. Angus King’s office, he said, who earlier confirmed with federal officials that the victim was not the target of ICE agents’ operation Monday morning.
A federal immigration agent shot a man in Biddeford on Monday morning after he allegedly drove “in the direction of the officer” as he tried to flee, according to the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
Spokespeople for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have not commented on the shooting, which occurred just before 7:18 a.m. Monday. Biddeford police confirmed that the incident involved ICE agents and that the police department’s involvement was limited to providing security at the scene.
The victim of a fatal shooting that involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is visible at the scene. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer) Editor’s note: The Portland Press Herald is publishing this photograph because it reflects the reality of current immigration enforcement operations in Maine and throughout the country.
Sen. Angus King and Rep. Chellie Pingree said they’ve learned little from federal agencies about the shooting and both believe agents were not equipped with body cameras.
Here are some of the key updates from our coverage of Monday’s shooting:
Residents say ICE activity had been increasing in the area in recent weeks.
- The man killed was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father from Colombia, a neighbor identified and immigrant advocates confirmed. Here’s what we know about him so far.
- Guerrero was not the intended target of the arrest warrant, officials say.
- Witnesses described seeing the victim bleeding as he was pulled out of his vehicle, telling agents ‘I tried to stop,’ and bystanders shouting at agents, including believed family members of the victim.
- Protesters attempted to storm Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Biddeford as anti-ICE protests erupted around the city.
“I’m looking to see more updates, and I’m hoping that the federal government and state authorities will work cooperatively so we can be informed about this, and especially for the family,” LaFountain said.
Reports of ICE activity have increased in Maine in recent months, including Biddeford.
“I have heard anecdotally from residents in the last month or so that (ICE) incidents have picked up but, obviously, this one stands out in its tragedy,” he said.
The mayor acknowledged the fatal shooting occurred in a highly visible area of Biddeford and a number of community members witnessed it. He said the city will be looking into resources it can provide those impacted in the coming days.
What Is NSPM-7? Domestic Terrorism Memo Explained
NSPM-7 is a domestic terrorism memo that shapes how federal agencies investigate threats, with implications for civil liberties and financial disruption efforts.
Published May 25, 2026
NSPM-7, formally titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” is a National Security Presidential Memorandum signed on September 25, 2025. It directs the Joint Terrorism Task Forces, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, and the IRS to investigate, prosecute, and financially disrupt individuals and organizations engaged in politically motivated violence. The memorandum was issued three days after a separate executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, and it builds on that order by laying out the investigative and enforcement framework federal agencies must follow.
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
Nick Turse, Jessica Washington, Noah Hurowitz
The Trump administration last week unveiled its “2026 Counterterrorism Strategy,” a 16-page collection of threats, grievances, hyperbole, and lies. The memo is a truly foundational document and a striking distillation of Trumpism as an ideology, movement, and system of governance. It also serves as a new declaration of war on the Trump administration’s enemies — foreign and domestic, real and imagined.
The brainchild of National Security Council official Sebastian Gorka, the “Counterterrorism Strategy” weaves together Trump’s war on the wider world — which stretches from interventions and wars in Yemen and Iran to Nigeria and Somalia to Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea — with the administration’s war on dissent at home, which has targeted immigrants, legal observers, activists, protesters, and the press.
Under the guise of protecting America, it takes aim at wide swaths of Americans, putting targets on the backs of the most vulnerable.
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“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”
The “Counterterrorism Strategy” formalizes a drastic shift in focus for counterterror efforts. Now, according to the Trump administration, the nation is battling three major types of terror groups: “Legacy Islamist Terrorists,” the long-standing focus of America’s counter-terror efforts; “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs”; and “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists.” Leer más
Local Cops Echo Trump’s Terrorist Org Attacks on Antifa
By Matt Sledge (July 7, 2026). The Intercept
“Local authorities accused the same legal assistance group targeted by Joseph McCarthy a half century ago of being part of a vast antifa conspiracy.”
Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist group, an intelligence unit inside the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office in Florida sent out a confidential bulletin.
Trump’s announcement was widely criticized as a legally baseless attempt to criminalize his enemies on the left, but the Southeast Florida Fusion Center took it very seriously.
Citing sources that included right-wing social media accounts, the bulletin described antifa as a “decentralized autonomous network of cells” that “stand against capitalism and want to overthrow governments they feel are oppressive through violence and silence their opposition by any means necessary.”
“We demand freedom”
A letter from Delaney Hall
5/31/2026
Through this letter, we will provide an account of the events that have taken place since the 22nd of May, 2026, when the hunger strike began at the “Delaney Hall” facility, where people detained have all voluntarily stopped working and assisting with facility operations. Since the strike began, we have been subjected to reprisals, discrimination, mockery, mistreatment, and threats, mainly from “GEO” staff. Here are some names we were able to identify: Lieutenant L■■■■, Supervisor M■■■■■■■■, F■■■■■ M■■■■■■■ (Case Manager), M■■■■■■ (administrator), the facility director and shift officers, J■■■■■ (in charge of the kitchen).
They constantly threaten to deport us, transfer us to punishment units, and move us from one detention center to another; they take photos of us in the dormitories without our consent and tell us that we have no rights here.
Through these threats, they are trying to force us to work in all areas of the facility (cleaning, kitchen, maintenance, laundry, floor polishing) and are trying to force us to go down for meals by making us sign a list so they can track who goes down and who doesn’t, in order to punish those who aren’t eating.
On May 25, we were gathered in the common room; the facility’s director, F■■■■■ M■■■■■■■, and the administrator, M■■■■■■, wanted to speak with the leaders of the hunger strike to identify them.
They were upset when we told them there was no leader and that the strike was a collective effort. That’s why they took retaliatory action against the young man named “■■■■■■,” the person who helped with translation.
That’s why the “GEO” staff tried to take him away in handcuffs, which all of us, seeing the injustice, wanted to prevent by peacefully blocking their path with our hands raised so that they wouldn’t take him away, in return we received from them: beatings, pepper spray, and from “ICE,” a riot squad came up spraying pepper spray throughout the facility, causing many people to be rushed to the hospital – one due to the beatings and others affected by the gas. To this day, we haven’t heard anything about those people. They’ve restricted our access to tablets, visits, and the common room. They only open it on a limited basis as a form of punishment.
As a result of all this, we feel psychologically impacted and are plagued by the fear that they might carry out their threats for no reason at all.
Judges, without checking the cases, order expulsion in two or three hearings, either to the country of origin or to a third country, also 95% of bond hearings are denied claiming that we are at flight risk, even though they don’t have actual arguments. Through these rulings there are people who are here from 3 months to a year and a half. We ask for the bonds to be revised since we are fathers and mothers with no criminal record and we have contributed to this beautiful country.
We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families, given the excessive amount of time we have spent in this prison.
We could be released, even if it means being under supervision, required to report regularly, or wearing an ankle monitor. The conditions in this prison are not fit for human beings over such a long period of time: medical neglect, water unfit for consumption, food that is past its expiration date and in poor condition, bathrooms that are unusable, and ventilation systems that have never been maintained and because of this, we are constantly sick.
We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected. S.O.S
This is the fourth letter to be published publicly from inside Delaney Hall.
Letter #1: El Grito de Nosotros
Letter #2: SOS
Letter #3: Don’t Give Up
Letter #4: We Demand Freedom
These letters not only represent the experiences of those at Delaney Hall, but the experiences of thousands of other immigrants in detention centers across the country.
How Did the Feds Get Into Anti-ICE Activists’ Signal Messages?
ICE investigators leaned on Signal communications to build their case against protesters. Take these steps to keep your chats safe.
When anti-ICE activists rallied against the Trump administration’s deportation campaign in Minneapolis, many relied on the encrypted messaging app Signal for secure communications. In activist chats and quickly established ICE-tracking groups, locals used Signal to keep tabs on federal agents patrolling their communities.
When the Department of Homeland Security announced this week the arrest of 15 alleged “anti-ICE rioters” in Minnesota, it pointed directly at their Signal chats.
The indictment is in large part built upon on conversations from more than a dozen Signal groups, citing more than 100 specific messages. The case is a stark reminder that using an encrypted messaging platform like Signal is not in and of itself a magic bullet to safeguard communications. It also raises the question: How did Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations unit gain access to all of these communications in the first place?
US: Türk alarmed at deaths in ICE custody, calls for urgent preventive action
26 June 2026
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged prompt action to prevent further loss of life in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and called for independent investigations into all deaths under ICE custody.
Türk said that it is alarming that, according to US Government official data, in the first five months of this year, 18 people had died in ICE detention. A further case of death in ICE custody has been reported this month. In 2025, a total of 33 deaths were registered, compared with 11 in 2024.
The lack of transparency and clarity surrounding the circumstances of these deaths in custody undermines accountability for them, the High Commissioner added.
“I call for prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigations into all deaths in ICE custody. Those responsible for violations of the law must be held to account, and the rights of the victims’ families to truth, justice and reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence must be upheld,” said Türk.
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrolling a federal court building in New York last month.Credit…Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
By Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington
July 1, 2026
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Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push within Immigration and Customs Enforcement to increase arrest rates.
Agency leaders in recent days ordered top ICE officials to focus more of their officers’ efforts on picking up immigrants they want to deport, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with federal officials. ICE officers have arrested people at check-ins with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street. The push has apparently yielded results, with recent arrest numbers roughly doubling from the 1,000 picked up each day earlier this year.
ICE officials were told that the White House wanted an increase in arrests, according to three officials with knowledge of the conversations. One of the officials said that it was unclear how long the pace could continue, but that ICE officials had been told that 2,000 arrests a day was the new standard for enforcement.
The surge has occurred without the fanfare of highly visible operations last year, in which officials announced their intentions ahead of time to target cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, and send officers pouring into the streets. Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, pledged to mount a quieter enforcement campaign following the chaos of a monthlong operation in Minnesota, where federal officers killed two U.S. citizens.
Detroit People’s Tribunal Takes Mask Off the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Global Research, July 02, 2026
On Saturday June 27, the Detroit People’s Tribunal was convened at the Historic St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in the North End.
This event had been in the making for more than five months prompted by a series of developments including the deployment of National Guard and Marine units in other cities such as Los Angeles, Memphis and Washington, D.C. during late 2025 and earlier this year.
Several organizations sponsored and endorsed the event with Detroit Will Breathe, People’s Assembly, Democratic Socialist of America Detroit Chapter among others taking the lead in mobilizing the people. Community groups such as the Moratorium NOW! Coalition, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) also co-sponsored the manifestation.
The surge by ICE and CBP in Minneapolis provided lessons on how broad-based coalitions could be built in a major municipality targeted by the repressive apparatus of the administration of President Donald Trump. In the face of the massive deployment of thousands of government agents in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the people of this leading city in Minnesota organized and mobilized hundreds of thousands of workers, clergy, youth and community activists to resist repression.
Although the National Guard has not been sent into Detroit as of yet various organizations have been discussing potential responses in case the Trump administration authorizes their dispatchment. Nonetheless, ICE and CBP have been very active in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Communities have responded by establishing monitoring committees to alert communities when they are facing surprise attacks.
Detroit has a large population of immigrants and migrants from Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. These persons who were born outside the United States and do not have naturalized citizenship or permanent residency are under constant surveillance and threatened detention. Even those who are citizens and legal residents live in the same targeted communities and are therefore negatively affected by the ICE and CBP.
Michigan has a notorious detention facility which has been described as a “concentration camp” for detained migrants. Transcripts and recorded messages from inmates and former detainees were played at the Tribunal. The conditions of those trapped in these institutions, particularly the North Lake Detention Center located in Baldwin, Michigan described conditions as horrendous citing rotten food, deliberate denial of sleep, lack of adequate medical treatment and racist bigotry, resulting in verbal and physical abuse by guards.
As a result of the awful conditions at North Lake, inmates are suffering from numerous ailments including dental problems, psychological distress stemming from the maltreatment by guards along with beatings carried out by staff. One account by telephone from the institution from an inmate alleged that Black detainees are subjected to racist name calling and beatings if they complain over the abuse.
The University of Michigan Wants to Kill Labor and Palestine Solidarity With One Stone
Yarden Azoulay Katz – Stephen M. Ward
The University and the Trump administration want to criminalize Palestine solidarity as part of their push to also crush labor organizing.
On June 10, 2026, we woke up to the news that the homes of individuals involved in Palestine solidarity activism at the University of Michigan, where we teach, had been raided by the FBI. Assisted by the University’s police, federal agents in military gear drew their guns, threw flashbangs, and deployed drones to arrest several individuals in a neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Those arrested were taken away barefoot, made to walk on shattered glass from the house door the agents had broken through. That morning, the FBI also arrested individuals in Illinois and Wisconsin connected to Palestine activism on our campus. Several of the defendants are current or former students at the University.
Additional Information
Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System
Human Rights Watch Report (June 26, 2026). Human Rights Watch
Lawsuit accuses ICE and Private Prison Contractors of Abusing a Disabled Detainee
By Julia Metraux (July 10, 2026). Mother Jones
30-Year Prison Sentence In Prairieland Zine Case Is a Free Speech Crisis
By Seth Stern & Jeremy Busby (June 26, 2026). The Intercept
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