Muslims for Just Futures Condemns ICE Killing in MN, Attacks on Community Rapid Responders, and the Use of NSPM-7 to Justify State Violence
“ The murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents represents a dangerous inflection point. If this violence is not stopped, participation in rapid response or community defense now carries the risk of death for community members, American citizens, and those acting in solidarity alike. It also presents a significant risk for community defense organizations like ours and others grappling with a political terrain where impunity and state repression knows no red line. This is targeted, political violence against those who defend our communities. It must be named, condemned, and stopped.”
January 7, 2026
Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) condemns the extrajudicial killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents. She is a victim of escalating ICE and state terror, as families are kidnapped and Somali communities are disproportionately targeted in Minnesota. In recent months across the country from Chicago to DC and beyond, community rapid responders fighting ICE’s terror have been surveilled, targeted, and arrested, including a woman who survived being shot multiple times by ICE in Chicago.
This moment reflects the very worst-case scenario long feared by organizations like ours engaged in critical community defense — the extrajudicial killing of community defenders by ICE and federal agents, followed by the deployment of the NSPM-7 “domestic terrorism” framework to retroactively justify state violence. As City Council Member Robin Wonsley noted, “There’s no reason why we lost Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, who was simply caring and protecting her neighbor. There’s no reason why she should have been shot and killed by a federal ICE agent.” Another neighbor who witnessed the murder noted neighbors wanted to provide aid to the woman but were told to back up by federal officers.
The public video documenting the execution of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents marks a profound and irreversible escalation. A red line has been crossed.
Prior to the extrajudicial killing of Good, the surge in federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota included a deep and longstanding backdrop of anti-Black, xenophobic, and Islamophobic violence directed at Somali communities. ICE targeting has expanded so aggressively that Somali community members—many of them U.S. citizens—have been forced to carry proof of citizenship out of fear. This backdrop is important to name and the broader state of terror communities are navigating.
Local immigration rapid response networks have been the frontline defenders of democracy at this moment against such state terror. From caring neighbors, legal observers, community responders, organizers, and volunteers, these networks exist to defend communities, document state violence, prevent disappearances, and protect collective safety in the face of escalating repression. They are often the only barrier between unchecked federal power and the communities being targeted. They are also often the only responders that show up to care for families and individuals when no one else is able to. The surveillance, criminalization, and killing of rapid responders is not incidental, it is a deliberate strategy to dismantle community defense and ensure there is no accountability at a time when, in the last year alone, more than 2 million immigrants have self-deported, including an additional 500,000 people who have been deported.
MJF also unequivocally condemns the use of NSPM-7 language and framing to demonize immigrants, legal observers, and community defenders, and to manufacture justification for state-sanctioned violence. This rhetoric is not neutral, it enables repression, dehumanization, and murder.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents represents a dangerous inflection point. If this violence is not stopped, participation in rapid response or community defense now carries the risk of death for community members, American citizens, and those acting in solidarity alike. It also presents a significant risk for community defense organizations like ours and others grappling with a political terrain where impunity and state repression knows no red line. This is targeted, political violence against those who defend our communities. It must be named, condemned, and stopped.
From Chicago to Minnesota, the Midwest has become a central target of ICE violence. We urge our communities to remain vigilant, utilize our Resource Hub, and extend solidarity to Minnesota communities under attack. Below, MJF has shared a list of a few Minnesota-based organizations we encourage our community to support. In times of state terror, solidarity and community is our best defense.
MJF Community Defense Resource Hub: bit.ly/MJFResourceHub
Local Organizations and Initiatives to Support in MN:
