The reckless and violent behavior of US government agencies targeting immigrants – Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol – has so outraged the American people that more people want to abolish ICE than keep it, including 75 percent of Democrats. As 75 percent of Republicans want to keep ICE as is, the issue of funding ICE is deeply partisan and the resulting congressional deadlock may be unbridgeable. Similarly, 85 percent of Democrats consider protests against ICE legitimate, while 75 percent of Republicans consider them “unlawful.” The funding issue, therefore, is not only about “the budget” but about the strong public resistance to the fascism growing out of the Trump presidency.
Last week, prior to the partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries outlined 10 demands that the Trump people must agree to before the Department of Homeland Security received funding for the next year. All them related to immigration enforcement. Not “abolition,” but “reform.” They included:
Bar DHS officers from entering private property without a judicial warrant
Ban ICE and immigration officers from wearing masks
Require officers to display their name, ID number and agency they work for
Restrict operations near schools, churches, polling places and medical and child care facilities
Prohibit execution of stops based on individuals’ jobs, ethnicity, race, language or accent
Pass a “reasonable use of force policy”
Allow state and local governments to investigate and prosecute potential crimes and cases of excessive force
Allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security
Mandate body cameras on officers
Regulate and standardize the uniforms and equipment that DHS officers can use
Speaking today on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Schumer narrowed this list of 10 demands to 3: Ending the Trump administration’s roving ICE patrols, stronger accountability for immigration enforcement officers, and barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from wearing masks.
PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION. Based on recent decades of the Democratic Party leadership’s capitulation to conservative/corporate pressure, the Democrat leaders are again in the process of surrendering. Knowing full well that the remaining three “demands” will do nothing to prevent or reduce the government’s violence directed against immigrants and their supporters, Schumer and Jeffries, in the face of mass protests against ICE coming from predominately Democratic voter, have a) separated funding bills so that anti-ICE momentum would not shut down the government; b) signaled that “abolition” or significant steps to reduce the size and mission of ICE would not be included in their 10 demands (many only cosmetic); and now have reduced 10 demands to 3, which with some fine tuning and government loopholes would render the anti-ICE efforts meaningless.
The Democrats’ surrender mean several things. One is that it will again be open season on immigrants and public protests in their support. A second is that the strong anti-Trump and anti-ICE popular anger may be dissipated before the November elections; and a third is that the Democratic Party leaders do not know or do not care that ICE is but one prong of a fascist takeover of the state, perhaps ending civil liberties, “real” elections, protections for workers and low-income people, and much more.
A part of this tragedy is that the government’s anti-immigrant offensive and the strong, popular support for immigrants and “due process” have opened vistas of better ways that immigrants can be welcomed into our communities, sustained in their adjustment to a new country, and integrate themselves and their children into a new life. Now that we see the gritty details of how things are not working, it is easier to imagine what would be a better way. The climate crisis, collapsing economies, and wall-to-wall wars will generate millions of refugee in the years ahead. Rather than putting up walls and barbed wire, we must find a better way.
WHY WE SAY “ABOLISH ICE!”
NYC Gets Ready for ICE
By Nancy Hoch, The Indypendent [NYC] [February 9, 2026]
---- This is a story about how I became a resister, joining with thousands around the country to stand against Trump’s mass deportation plan. The mutuality and inclusivity I’ve experienced since I’ve gotten involved in helping to protect my neighborhood from ICE has lifted my spirits and rekindled the hope that, if we keep at it, we can turn the authoritarian tide and build a more progressive and caring world in its wake. I attended my first Know Your Rights (KYR) training in mid-November in Kensington, a neighborhood in Brooklyn not far from my own. The workshop took place in a large apartment building off a busy street. A volunteer met me in the lobby and pointed me toward the host’s apartment where nearly 20 people were crowded into the living room. We were young and old, experienced organizers and first-timers. About five other residents from the apartment building were meeting each other for the first time. A few came because they saw a flier in the building’s lobby. I had heard about the workshop through Hands Off NYC, a coalition of over 100 labor, religious and community groups that formed in October to protect the city from escalating ICE raids and the threat of federal intervention. This was one of 60 events taking place across the city that day, all under the Hands Off umbrella. [Read More]
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
By Leah Feiger, Wired [February 12, 2026]
---- [ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations/] … Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. … The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages federal buildings and functions as the government’s internal IT department, is playing a critical role in this aggressive expansion. In numerous emails and memorandums viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns” in an effort to support ICE’s immigration enforcement activities across the US. … Months after the “surge” began, ICE’s expansion to American cities is well underway, according to documentation viewed by WIRED. The table below gives a detailed listing of planned ICE lease locations as of January, and includes current ICE offices that are set to expand and new spaces the agency is poised to occupy. It does not include more than 100 planned ICE locations across many states—including California, New York, and New Jersey—where WIRED has not viewed every specific address. [Read More]
ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence
By Sophia Goodfriend, +972 Magazine [Israel/Palestine] [February 12, 2026]
---- As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have swarmed cities across the United States, American politics has appeared to enter a new phase, one in which armed federal forces turn civilian neighborhoods into active conflict zones. Part of what is driving this political shift is a potent technical infrastructure: ICE operations are now expedited by mobile surveillance and targeting systems, where agents’ most powerful weapon can fit in the palm of their hands. Recent reporting has revealed ICE is relying on at least two applications to guide its crackdown. The first is ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), a new geospatial system built by the data analytics firm Palantir for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and designed for use on smartphones and tablets. ELITE “populates a map with deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address,” according to a user manual published late last month. The second is Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition application manufactured by the biometrics company NEC that allows immigration enforcement officers to identify both citizens and undocumented migrants. ICE and other DHS agents have reportedly photographed and scanned the faces of Americans in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago — images that are cross-checked with biometric databases, compiled into dossiers, and stored for up to 15 years. It’s no coincidence that, reporting on ICE’s incursion into Minnesota, New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen described an “occupation designed to punish and terrorize.” The technologies supporting their operations illustrate how thoroughly ICE is following in Israel’s footsteps: both ELITE and Mobile Fortify bear a striking resemblance to mobile targeting applications Israeli forces have integrated into their policing arsenal over the last decade. [Read More]
CFOW NUTS & BOLTS
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REWARDS!
It’s time to push back against the Winter Doldrums, so the Rewards for stalwart newsletter readers this week are some classic tunes from energy-giver Bob Marley. First up is “Get Up, Stand Up.” Next up is a live version of “War.” Another strong song is “Burning and Looting.” And for a calm-down change of pace, here is “Three Little Birds.” Enjoy! [h/t SR]
Best wishes,
Frank Brodhead
For CFOW
CFOW WEEKLY READER
FEATURED ARTICLES & ESSAYS
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
By Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine [February 13, 2026]
From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice. … In August 1964, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers in an earthen dam on a farm outside Philadelphia, Miss., following their disappearance a month and a half before. … One of the slain civil rights activists, James Chaney, was Black. But the other two, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were white. The national response reflected that. … The response to the deaths confirmed a cold calculus made by Mississippi’s civil rights strategists when they decided to recruit elite white college students and young professionals to help in the struggle to democratize the state: In America, white lives matter. But in daring to risk their lives and fight on the side of Black Americans against racial apartheid, Goodman and Schwerner crossed a deadly line. To white supremacists, they were race traitors. And throughout American history, race traitors not only lose the protections of whiteness, but also often become the targets of a particular type of violence, one designed to warn other white people against the costs of fighting — and therefore, delegitimizing — white hegemony. Last month, Renee Good and Alex Pretti joined this long but seldom spoken-of American tradition when they were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis while standing up for people of color ensnared in the Trump administration’s racialized deportation campaign. … America’s racial caste system, which places white people on top, has existed since before the country was founded. And yet there have always been white people who have worked against and betrayed notions of racial hierarchy, rejecting the fictions that undergird them and the illegitimate power that racial caste justifies. These people are perhaps the most powerful weapon against these systems. [Read More]
The End of New START and the Enduring Nuclear Nightmare
By Eric Ross, TomDispatch [February 9, 2026]
---- On February 5th, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to find ourselves ever closer to the edge of a perilous precipice. The renewed arms race that seems likely to take place could plunge the world, once and for all, into the nuclear abyss. This crisis is neither sudden nor surprising, but the predictable culmination of a truth that has haunted us for nearly 80 years: humanity has long been living on borrowed time. … Given such indifference, we risk not only our own lives but also the lives of all those who would come after us. As Jonathan Schell observed decades ago, both genocide and nuclear war are distinct from other forms of mass atrocity in that they serve as “crimes against the future.” And as Robert Jay Lifton once warned, what makes nuclear war so singularly horrifying is that it would constitute “genocide in its terminal form,” a destruction so absolute as to render the earth unlivable and irrevocably reverse the very process of creation. Yet for many, the absence of such a nuclear holocaust, 80 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is taken as proof that such a catastrophe is, in fact, unthinkable and will never happen. [Read More]
Annexation Breaks Containment – [Israel]
By Jasper Nathaniel, Infinite Jaz [February 10, 2026]
[FB – Jasper Nathaniel is from Hastings. Check out his posts on Substack and consider subscribing.]
---- Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has spent years playing a careful game of Operation with the West Bank—extracting one bureaucratic guardrail at a time, tightening Israel’s grip slowly enough to avoid setting off alarms. This week, it seems, he got a little too greedy. With a single package of cabinet decisions, Israel’s project of de facto annexation broke containment, spilling into global headlines: None of these headlines manage to include the fact that the moves are blatantly illegal under international law. … While Israel’s West Bank policies have long made subjugation and force routine, the new cabinet decisions shift the emphasis toward the second option: engineering the conditions under which emigration becomes the “choice,” and smoothing the path for it. Here’s a brief summary of the cabinet decisions…. Taken together, the picture comes into focus. Israel has systematically intensified the violence, precarity, and economic suffocation that make staying unbearable—dismantling aid mechanisms, revoking roughly 100,000 work permits, driving unemployment toward 30%, and pushing families into debt and hunger. Now, it is extending control into even the most insulated Palestinian cities, while simultaneously stripping away the remaining legal barriers that once slowed the transfer of Palestinian land into Israeli hands. [Read More]
A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran
By Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi, Counterpunch [February 13, 2026]
---- The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of monarchy. The day the Shah left was perhaps the happiest day in my life up to that point. I was at my university campus, Tehran Polytechnic, when the news arrived. I lit a cigarette, another bad habit of teenage years, and left the campus aimlessly just to join the joyous crowds. I had never seen an entire nation so exceptionally jubilant, deeply ecstatic, profoundly euphoric. People were holding up the front page of various newspapers, all of which read, in the largest font that could fit the page, the words “Shah Raft” (The Shah is Gone!). … Reconciling the mass euphoria of the Shah’s departure with the call for his return under the barrage of bullets, regardless of how extensive or small the call, after almost half-a-century seems impossible to comprehend. Especially since the call for the return of monarchy sounds unapologetically fascist, with the promise of a bloodbath of all those who raise voices against their agenda. [Read More]
THE WAR ON PALESTINE
Gaza Is Still Here
By Rayan El Amine, et al., The Nation [February 10, 2026],
---- Gaza has been suspended in a bloody limbo for months. The so-called ceasefire with Israel has not brought peace. The bombings and demolitions persist, and Israel’s expanding occupation continues unabated. Since October 10, 2025, when the ceasefire was declared, more than 440 people have been killed and more than 2,500 buildings destroyed. Israel has only allowed a fraction of the essential equipment needed for cooking, heating, and construction to enter the Strip. Gaza is now buried beneath 680 million tons of rubble. Ninety percent of the population has been displaced, many of them several times. Hundreds of thousands live in threadbare tents. The “ceasefire” is meant to breed apathy among us; the spectacle of modern genocidal warfare has been replaced by the slow bureaucratic proceedings of ethnic cleansing. Washington’s hollow promises to bring “technocratic governance” to Gaza mask a colonial project imposed on a people with no say: a people left to die, forgotten by the world. This, then, is where we return. In early February, The Nation gave over its website for a day to writers from Gaza. We did this to make it clear that we will remain focused on Gaza and the Palestinian people. No diplomatic proceedings or political distortions will subdue our demand for their right to self-determination—or their right to speak for themselves. The pieces in this series are an affirmation of that right: a record of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be exterminated. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face,” by Juan Cole, Informed Comment [February 15, 2026] [Link]; and “Strangling Gaza’s Survivors, Criminalizing Humanity for Zionist Conquest: The Banning of Humanitarian Relief in Occupied Palestine,” by Michael Leonardi, Counterpunch [February 13, 2026] [Link].
The West Bank
How Israel Is Eroding Life For Palestinians In The West Bank
By Abdaljawad Omar, Znet [February 14, 2026]
---- Today, a quiet transformation is advancing in the West Bank. It isn’t the same spectacular form of violence that once commanded the global news cycle in Gaza, but it is more methodical and durable — and more difficult to interrupt. It unfolds in three seemingly unrelated processes: financial warfare against Palestinian economic life, state-backed settler terror, and the legalization of annexation. What binds these processes together isn’t simply their occurrence in the same territory at the same time, but their shared architecture: they are part of a regime of compression that doesn’t outright destroy Palestinian life, but systematically constrains it. Each mechanism operates through a different register — one through liquidity, one through violence, one through law — but all converge on the same objective: to narrow the field for Palestinian life to continue. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - “Israel just started legalizing its annexation of the West Bank. Here’s what that means,” By Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss [February 11, 2026] [Link].
WAR ON IRAN?
Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares, Common Dreams [February 9, 2026]
---- History occasionally presents moments when the truth about a conflict is stated plainly enough that it becomes impossible to ignore. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s February 7 address in Doha, Qatar (transcript here) should prove to be such a moment. His important and constructive remarks responded to the US call for comprehensive negotiations, and he laid out a sound proposal for peace across the Middle East. Last week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for comprehensive negotiations: “If the Iranians want to meet, we’re ready.” He proposed for talks to include the nuclear issue, Iran’s military capabilities, and its support for proxy groups around the region. On its surface, this sounds like a serious and constructive proposal. The Middle East’s security crises are interconnected, and diplomacy that isolates nuclear issues from broader regional dynamics is unlikely to endure. On February 7, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi’s responded to the United States’ proposal for a comprehensive peace. In his speech at the Al Jazeera Forum, the foreign minister addressed the root cause of regional instability – “Palestine… is the defining question of justice in West Asia and beyond” and he proposed a path forward. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - (Video) “Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani,” from Democracy Now! [February 12, 2026] [Link]; “Why Iran–US negotiations must move beyond a single-issue approach to the nuclear problem By Seyed Hossein Mousavian, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [February 5, 2026] [Link]; and “Netanyahu strikes out in Washington,” by Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss [February 12, 2026]
WAR ON CUBA?
(Video) “Policy of Aggression”: Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government
From Democracy Now! [February 13, 2026]
---- Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba, which has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1962. These measures have caused fuel shortages and widespread blackouts, while the cost of food and transportation has skyrocketed. “This is a massive violation of human rights,” says Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations. “It’s a massive violation of international law.” [See the Program]
BAD BUNNY & PUERTO RICO
Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment [February 10, 2026]
---- American rap star Benito “Bad Bunny” Antonio Martínez, who busts rhymes in Puerto Rican Spanish, caused waves when he was chosen to headline the Superbowl LX Halftime show. According to internet memes, at least, some people complained about not having an “American” headliner, apparently unaware that Puerto Ricans gained US citizenship in 1917. The thrust of his performance, entirely in Spanish, was to make the point that Spanish is also a language of the United States. People in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and much of Texas spoke Spanish when they formed part of the Spanish Empire and then the United States of Mexico, before being grabbed by Washington. … But although the Puerto Ricans are Americans and fully belong to the country, the United States does not treat them very well. They are citizens, but in some ways they are second-class citizens, because Puerto Rico is not a state. They have no representatives in Congress and they have no senators. They use the dollar and live under US federal laws, but they cannot vote for the electoral college and so do not vote for the president. They can vote in party primaries, though. Some Puerto Ricans want independence. I think that either they should be made a state or they should be let go. They are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for. [Read More]
THE EPSTEIN CRIMES
(Video) Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
From Democracy Now! [February 10, 2026]
---- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files, a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. “The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this,” says Carole Cadwalladr, award-winning investigative journalist. “I have been shocked — deeply, deeply shocked — by the absence of headlines.” [See the Program]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims,” Editorial, New York Times [February 14, 2026] [Link]; and “How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails<” by Anand Giridharadas, New York Times [November 23,2025] [Link].
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow, New York Times [February 10, 2026]
---- In the coming days, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to revoke a determination that has underpinned the federal government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009. That scientific conclusion, known as the endangerment finding, determined that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are supercharging storms, wildfires, drought, heat waves and sea level rise, and are therefore threatening public health and welfare. It required the federal government to regulate these gases, which result from the burning of oil, gas and coal. In revoking that determination, the Trump administration would erase limits on greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and industries that generate the planet-warming pollution. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - (Video) “’Devastating’ Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push,” from Democracy Now! [February 11, 2026] [Link].
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Woman in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure After Falling
By Maria Cramer, New York Times [February 12, 2026]
---- A New Jersey woman who was detained by federal immigration agents nearly a year ago suffered a seizure after she fell and hit her head in a Texas detention center, her lawyers and federal officials said on Wednesday. The woman, Leqaa Kordia, who has been held at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, since March 2025, was brought to a hospital last Friday and remained there for 72 hours before being taken back to the detention center, said Sarah Sherman-Stokes, Ms. Kordia’s immigration lawyer. … Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, has accused Ms. Kordia of being a terrorist sympathizer and government lawyers had said they were investigating funds she sent overseas. Her lawyers have countered in immigration hearings and court documents that she sent $1,000 to help her family in Gaza. Ms. Kordia worked as a server before she was detained. [Read More] ALSO OF INTEREST - “The government-sanctioned persecution of Leqaa Kordia,” by Sam Judy, Mondoweiss [February 10, 2026] [Link]
THE STATE OF THE UNION
(Video) House Passes “Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever” in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections
From Democracy Now! [February 13, 2026]
---- The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require proof of U.S. citizenship in the November midterm elections. If it becomes law, it would be the “worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress,” according to Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “The bill really combines a lot of the worst things that Republicans want to do with regards to voting, and it comes at a time when Trump appears dead set to try to interfere in the midterm elections,” he adds. Wednesday’s vote sends the legislation on to the Republican-led Senate, where it is expected to receive a vote but unlikely to garner the 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority needed for passage. [Read More]
ALSO OF INTEREST - “How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds,” by Joseph Mogul, Waging Nonviolence [February 12, 2026] [Link]
OUR HISTORY
Nobody Starts With a Blank Slate: an Interview with John Sayles
By Richard Klin, Counterpunch [February 13, 2026]
---- The novels of John Sayles encompass a wide swath of American history. Since the wide swath of American history is replete with one injustice after another, those are front and center in Sayles’s fiction. Crucible, his latest novel, is set in the tumultuous, violent Detroit of the 1920s to World War II. It is a mix of real figures—including Henry Ford, Diego Rivera, Joe Louis, and Ford’s ruthless majordomo/enforcer Harry Bennett—and a multi-ethnic array of fictional characters, drawn from the city’s struggling working class. This new novel, like Sayles’s other work, manages to artfully weave together a host of themes and characters. His writing is a vital piece of the literary landscape. … “Our history doesn’t start with a blank slate. Nobody starts with a blank slate. You’re born into the world, you’re a certain class, you’re a certain color, you’re a certain sex—that may change during your life! You’ve got a lot of history that you’re hauling and you’re not even conscious yet.” [Read More]
