KEVINMD Blog: Violence against health care workers: the silence must end
We must find a way to replace silence and silencing with transparency, publishing assault statistics and protecting whistleblowers, as well as ensuring accountability at every level. It should be the responsibility of policymakers to ensure health care workers (nurses, EMTs, PAs, doctors) are not suffering in silence or told their experiences are simply part of the job.
After We Abolish ICE: A roadmap for just immigration reform
ICE is not a broken agency that needs fixing. It is an agency whose design produces the outcomes we are now witnessing. When an institution is built to enforce a broken system without due process protections, without meaningful accountability, and with a culture that has consistently shielded agents from consequences for misconduct and killing, reform is insufficient. The institution must be replaced.
Abolishing ICE means replacing a failed institution with one that is built from the ground up with civil rights protections, democratic accountability, and a mission that’s oriented toward a functional immigration system rather than fear and punishment.
It’s Town Meeting Day!
I am hoping that our town will come together today to affirm that our community does not want to collaborate with the Trump Administration in its unlawful and immoral immigration crackdown here in Hampton.
Good News: Merrimack Detention Facility Canceled!
This victory shows the power of a mobilized and unified community that not only opposes the reprehensible actions of ICE and DHS, but also envisions and fights for a more just immigration system.
My Eleven Point Plan for DHS
The clock is ticking. The longer politicians in Washington wait to fix our broken immigration system and force ICE, CBP, and Kristi Noem to face real accountability, the more emboldened DHS becomes in its efforts to trample over our rights and terrorize innocent people.
Photo Essay: Rockingham County Commissioners Reject Contract with ICE
After months of persistent advocacy, activists succeeded in swaying the crucial swing vote on the Rockingham Board of Commissioners against signing a contract to use the county jail to house ICE detainees. The effort brought together faith leaders, state elected officials, seasoned activists, and outraged Rockingham residents who showed up, week after week, to oppose an immoral and fiscally irresponsible agreement that would have exposed the county to future liability when ICE is held accountable for their cruelty and many abuses.
Carleigh’s Response to the State Documents Unveiling ICE’s Site Plans for Merrimack
This is state-sanctioned violence and it has no place in New Hampshire.
Video: Keep ICE out of the Rockingham County Jail
Hundreds showed up at the Rockingham County Commissioners meeting on Thursday to speak out against a proposed contract with ICE to use the county jail to house immigrants detained by ICE. Meanwhile, 75 miles from Rockingham County, in Maine, ICE agents recently detained a Cumberland County Corrections recruit. They literally yanked him out of his car and left it running in the street. Incidents like this are happening all across the country as ICE terrorizes entire communities, tramples on our rights, and kills people.
Guest Post: June Garen - Fear, Healing, Hope
The morning after watching Alex Pretti die, I woke up heavy with grief—the emotional hangover that follows witnessing injustice layered on top of old wounds. Then I read a public statement by Carleigh Beriont, a New Hampshire leader and congressional candidate. It was titled simply: This Is Wrong.
For the first time in a long while, I took a deep breath.
ICE, DHS, and our Obligation to Humanity
We must be clear: there will be consequences for the people who terrorize immigrant communities and trample our human rights.
I will not rest until every person and organization responsible, from the federal government to the state and local officials that collaborate with them, are held accountable. We will not forget and we cannot relent in the pursuit of truth and justice.
Congress should not approve a penny of funding for any agency, ICE, CBP, or otherwise, that violates the rights of the people. For those politicians who do vote to fund ICE, CBP, and other lawless agencies, this violence should weigh on your conscience, and you will have to answer for your complicity.
I call on everyone to stand up in our communities and demand that our local and state officials refuse to collaborate with ICE.
Op-Ed: This is what solidarity looks like in the face of ICE
Every month, I join faith leaders and immigration activists to sing, pray, and walk seven times around the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, where ICE has its New Hampshire office. As in the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho from the Hebrew Bible, those who walk this path each month know that the aspiring Americans we’re walking for face long odds. Still, we walk undeterred.
There’s nothing partisan about due process.
President Trump’s immigration policies are dangerous. 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025, and on Wednesday, an ICE agent shot a woman to death in Minneapolis. These policies and actions undermine our democracy, and they do nothing to fix our immigration system. That’s why I voted Monday to recommend a warrant article advising the Hampton Police Department against entering an immigration enforcement agreement with ICE.