Moline ICE Protest Sunday Among Coordinated National Uprisings This Weekend
A major protest in Moline Sunday afternoon will be among many across the country — coordinated as “ICE Out For Good” Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10th and Sunday, January 11th to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
Hundreds are expected to gather along Avenue of the Cities (in front of Walgreens at 41st Street) on Jan. 11 from noon to 2 p.m., to express their grave concerns about the erosion of democracy and human rights under the Trump administration, especially recent violent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to a Friday press release.
On Wednesday, Jan. 7th, an American citizen (37-year-old Renee Nicole Good) was killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities,” says the release from Indivisible Quad Cities.
Indivisible Quad Cities formed on Jan. 20, 2025, a local affiliate of the nationwide group.
Indivisible QC is a local chapter of the national group Indivisible, that began operations in East Moline, on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. Since then, its membership has grown to cover the entire Quad Cities metro region, and has worked to help organize well-attended events like the April 5th “Hands Off” Rally in Davenport, and both of the “No Kings” events in the QC (June 14, Rock Island; October 18, Davenport), the release says.
“We are a grassroots movement of ordinary citizens exercising our First Amendment rights to call out the destructive, anti-democratic actions of the Trump administration and help build alternative democratic futures,” the group said.
“Since returning to office, President Trump and the GOP have presided over an assault on federal workers, veterans’ benefits, gay and trans rights, the environment, healthcare subsidies, refugee and immigrant rights, and the Constitution itself,” the release says.
Indivisible QC “stands with numerous other national and local organizations to call for an end to the militarization of our cities and the impunity being granted to masked thugs,” the group said.
A scene from the “No Kings” rally at Schwiebert Park, Rock Island, on June 14, 2025.
“As a relative newcomer to the Quad Cities, I was delighted to discover that Victoria Masters had created a local chapter of Indivisible in East Moline,” Bradley Levinson, spokesman for Indivisible QC, said Friday by email. “I am so impressed with the energy, strategic vision, and inclusive spirit of Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, the national co-founders of Indivisible, and I wanted to be a part of that national strategy at the local level.”
He is a retired professor from Indiana University, and a writer. The group’s weekly meetings average about 20 people, and there are about 50 people who are pretty deeply engaged, Levinson said.
“But we now have several thousand on our email list and social media following, and many of them are ready to be mobilized for events. We enjoy very close collaborative relationships with a number of other Quad Cities organizations.”
“We believe that we are at an important inflection point in the fight against authoritarian, undemocratic rule in this country,” he said. “Clearly, a majority of people in this country disagree with the draconian immigration raids perpetrated by ICE; masked, poorly trained, and heavily armed agents are literally terrorizing our communities, racially profiling our Latino neighbors and flouting all due process.”
A scene from the “No Kings” rally at Schwiebert Park, Rock Island, on June 14, 2025.
The murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis “represents a dramatically visible example of how federal law enforcement is threatening all of us, every day,” Levinson said.
“What we hope to accomplish with the protests is to raise further awareness of the ongoing threat to our democracy and the rule of law,” he said by email. “We want more and more of our fellow Quad Citians to take notice of this threat, and to join us in protest.”
“We demand that ICE abandon its terror campaigns in our cities and limit itself strictly to arresting those with violent criminal records, which is what President Trump proclaimed in his campaign,” he added. “Finally, we also want to get our fellow citizens to stop accepting this dangerous new status quo and commit themselves to supporting strong candidates in the upcoming midterm elections, so we can return to sanity and the rule of law in our federal government.”
ICE Out for Good protests are planned nationwide Jan. 10 and Jan. 11.
A core principle behind all ICE Out For Good events is a commitment to nonviolent action and no civil disobedience.
“We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values, and to act lawfully at these events,” the group release says. “Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events. All events should be held in public spaces or on public property.”
Other organizations involved
The groups planning nationwide protests include the 50501 Movement, Indivisible, the Disappeared in America campaign, MoveOn, the ACLU, Voto Latino, and United We Dream.
Another round of protests were planned for Friday in Minneapolis over the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major city, a day after federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Ore.
On Friday, city workers removed makeshift barricades of old Christmas trees and other debris that had been blocking the streets around the scene where the ICE officer shot Good as she tried to drive away. City officials said they would allow a makeshift shrine to the 37-year-old mother of three to remain.
The QC protest is planned for Sunday, Jan. 11, from noon to 2 p.m. at Avenue of the Cities and 41st Street, Moline.
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has launched an “ICE Accountability Project,” an independent initiative she said would collect and document federal immigration agents’ alleged criminal or abusive conduct during Operation Midway Blitz, according to the Chicago Tribune.
“A mask cannot shield agents from accountability, and there simply must be accountability for those individuals if we are a democracy,” she said at a downtown news conference Thursday.
Lightfoot said residents could send videos, audio, photos or other information to reporticenow.com. The accounts will be published on the website and serve as a “centralized, permanent archive” that law enforcement, elected officials, journalists and others can refer to, she said.
The initiative from Lightfoot follows months of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown across Chicagoland as well as an agent killing a woman in Minneapolis Wednesday. Agents arrested thousands of immigrants, most of whom didn’t have a criminal record, during the Chicago operation. It also prompted numerous protests where agents repeatedly deployed tear gas and pepper spray.
Top Illinois Democrats are also calling for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s ouster after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman under questionable circumstances in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
A scene from the “No Kings” protest in Davenport, Oct. 18, 2025.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Lynwood, who is running in the Democratic primary for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat, said she plans to file articles of impeachment against Noem.
“She has turned ICE into a rogue force, violating the Constitution, tearing families apart, and leaving death in her wake,” Kelly said in a statement. “From Chicago to Minneapolis, her recklessness cost lives, including Renee Nicole Good. This isn’t just dangerous — it’s impeachable. I’m fighting back.”
Her primary opponents have joined the effort, which is unlikely, since Republicans control both houses of Congress.
Indivisible QC will join the ACLU of Illinois, Clock Inc., NAACP Rock Island County branch, QC Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees and QC Alliance for Retired Americans on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 6 p.m. to present a “Power to the People” community town hall. That will address what they see as federal abuse of power, and meet at Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, 424 Carpenter Court, East Moline.
For more information on other ICE protests throughout Illinois and Iowa this weekend, click HERE.
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