Feminist Generation Condemns Trump’s Travel Ban and ICE Raids Devastating Our Communities
06/20/2025
Feminist Generation strongly condemns the Trump administration’s reinstatement and expansion of the racist, xenophobic, and authoritarian travel ban targeting 12 Muslim-majority, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African countries, along with the imposition of extreme visa restrictions on 7 additional nations of the Global South. These discriminatory immigration policies are being enforced alongside militarized raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that are devastating immigrant communities across the United States, and especially in Los Angeles right now. These reprehensible federal actions are tearing families apart, violating due process, and inflicting fear, trauma, and state violence on immigrant communities, especially Black and brown folks who have long faced systemic marginalization.
As a youth-led feminist organization, we know that feminism must be intersectional and committed to the liberation of all people. The targeting of immigrants is inherently a feminist issue. Migrant women, girls, and LGBTQ+ individuals are particularly vulnerable under these policies, facing gender-based violence, abuse in detention, family separation, and criminalization. Many are fleeing persecution, intimate partner violence, or anti-LGBTQ+ laws in their home countries, only to encounter further harm under the U.S. immigration system.
These violent systems of border enforcement, detention, and exclusion uphold the very structures that our feminism seeks to dismantle. We oppose these systems and demand the right to move freely, to seek safety, to create family, and to live free from state violence. Racist immigration bans, mass deportations, and militarized policing deny these rights and are in direct opposition to the values of justice, equity, and human dignity.
Feminist Generation calls for an immediate end to all ICE raids and deportations, the abolition of ICE, the demilitarization of the U.S. border, and the full repeal of the travel ban and all policies that discriminate based on nationality, religion, or race. We demand permanent protections and accessible pathways to citizenship for undocumented people, and policies that safeguard the health, safety, and autonomy of migrants of all genders and identities. We reject the Trump administration’s scapegoating of immigrants as a cover for the failures of neoliberal capitalism and the expansion of militarization and policing that threatens our rights and communities in the United States.
We affirm our unwavering solidarity with immigrant communities and remain committed to resisting authoritarian violence, racist narratives, and policies that attempt to divide us. Our communities do not need bans, raids, or surveillance; they need resources, care, and collective protection.
We call on all feminists, gender justice organizers, and people of conscience to rise up in defense of immigrant rights and to organize toward a future where all people, regardless of immigration status, can live with dignity, safety, and freedom. We keep us safe. We will and we must organize to resist authoritarian violence and narratives attempting to weaken our movements and divide our communities.