Community shuts down ICE contractor in St. Rose, Louisiana, after Father’s Day hearing blitz

June 15, St. Rose, Louisiana — Right now, people are posted up at the St. Rose office of BI Incorporated, standing up for immigrants after organizers with Unión Migrante put out a call.

BI is a surveillance company tracking immigrants for ICE. The private prison corporation GEO Group acquired it in 2011. The government uses BI to run its Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) to monitor immigrants, all part of the vast web of private contractors — including tech giants — making big bucks off government repression.

This local BI office sent out messages at 8:00 last night to a lot of people, ordering them to show up for a Father’s Day check-in. This was highly unusual, according to organizers familiar with BI. They said the office isn’t open on Sundays and immigration lawyers normally wouldn’t be working. Plus, it’s Father’s Day. 

Suspecting an ICE sting, they called for the community to show up for defense. Several children were among those who showed up. They weren’t passively attending with family. They created their signs on site and discussed ICE and immigration. 

Despite the anticipated blitz, witnesses said the office only managed to process one person this morning. He was seen going through the front entrance, but his current whereabouts are unknown. It’s possible that he was driven out from the back of the building to an ICE facility in New Orleans or elsewhere. 

Since the community came out, operations appear to be shut down. Throughout the day, some immigrants who had received messages through the BI group’s app came to the office but found it locked up. 

This fits a pattern seen in Los Angeles and elsewhere. ICE Nazis are like cockroaches operating in the shadows. When you shine light on them, they scatter. 

Actually, I respect roaches, as all life holds intrinsic value. They are ancient, resilient creatures, part of the evolution of life in nature.

ICE and its affiliates, on the other hand, serve no purpose except to divide up and repress the working class. They do this on behalf of the filthy rich oligarchs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. We don’t need them. This whole deportation and detention apparatus drags us all down. 

Consider that 75% of Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is for the military, ICE, and other violent, repressive entities. Meanwhile, they’re cutting health care and anything that meets people’s needs. Here’s the “waste and abuse” we should be worried about!

Every dollar spent to deport our immigrant siblings is a dollar that could feed a hungry child. Every dollar spent to bomb people in Gaza is a dollar that could house our seniors, who are homeless in record numbers. We don’t need these deportations, and sure as hell don’t need war on Iran! 

Wherever we were born, let’s stand together, because our enemies are the same.

Up with the people!
Down with Trump!
Down with ICE!
Free, free Palestine!