ALT Statement continues: This violence is a horrifying demonstration of the terror ICE brings into our communities. The working class is not safe so long as we allow an armed deportation force to operate with impunity. This attack follows a broader pattern of ICE violence, including running over Miguel Parra-Hernandez with a vehicle in Texas and murdering Carlos Roberto Montoya in California while fleeing an ICE raid. DSA’s national program is clear: we must Abolish ICE. We demand an end to ICE detention and deportations, the prosecution of federal agents, the free movement of all people, and amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status.

ALT Statement continues: ICE is not an exception to an otherwise just immigration system. It is just one among many instruments of the capitalist state that criminalizes the poor, divides workers, and uses the threat of detention and deportation to make the whole of the working class vulnerable to exploitation. Our solidarity does not depend on our immigration status. An injury to one is an injury to all.

ALT Statement reads: The Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Committee and the Abolition Commission condemn the attempted murder of Oscar Belgal and his child by ICE in Marble Hill, New York City on October 8.