The activist branch of the United States’ largest teachers union reached out to its supporters over the weekend with a strongly-worded message targeting the Trump administration and immigration officials. This came in response to the recent death of an anti-ICE protester.
“Our students, families, and educators from cities like Minneapolis, Charlotte, Chicago, and Portland are uniting to demand the Trump administration cease their attacks on our communities,” stated a January 10 email from Edjustice, a project of the National Education Association (NEA).
The email carried the subject line “ICE Out of Our Schools & Communities Now,” reflecting the union’s stance, which represents over three million members across the nation.
In a related context, former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was seen alongside Becky Pringle, president of the NEA, during the association’s 2022 annual meeting held in Chicago, Illinois, on July 5, 2022. (Photo credit: Tannen Maury/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Recently, 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer as she reportedly accelerated her car towards him. The Department of Homeland Security reported that Good had been trailing ICE agents conducting immigration operations throughout the day. Her maroon SUV was allegedly obstructing the agents’ path.
When instructed to relocate her vehicle, Good initially resisted. As an officer approached to open her car door, she reportedly accelerated towards another agent, prompting him to open fire, resulting in her death.
The NEA email characterized the events, which were captured on video, much differently.
“The murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis as she bravely stood witness to the assault on her immigrant neighbors this week by an ICE agent painfully punctuated months of abductions, harassment, intimidation, and racial profiling by federal forces occupying our cities,” the email said.
Nobody has been charged with murder in Good’s case.
Good was a member of an activist organization called “ICE Watch,” and was initially billed as a “legal observer” of the ICE enforcement operations of the day.
President Donald Trump takes questions from members of the press aboard Air Force One on Jan. 11, 2026, while traveling from Palm Beach, Florida. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
On the same afternoon as Good’s death, a five-mile ICE vehicle pursuit ended on the lawn of Minneapolis’ Roosevelt High School. DHS said the suspect in the pursuit was a U.S. citizen who had used his car to ram a vehicle used by ICE during a separate enforcement operation.
Again, the NEA characterized the events in a different manner.
“Hours after the murder, at a school two blocks away, ICE agents unleashed tear gas and violence on the campus, detaining two school staff who were following protocols to protect students,” according to the email.
A statement from DHS further detailed the incident.
“At no point was a school, students, or staff targeted, and agents would not have been near this location if not for the dangerous actions of this individual,” DHS said in a statement.
Tensions escalate between community members and federal agents following an operation in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
The statement continues, saying a person who identified himself as a teacher assaulted law enforcement.
“While this was happening, a crowd began to form and grow—rioters threw objects and dispersed paint on the officers and their vehicles,” the statement continued. “Despite repeated warnings to cease, the crowd continued with their hostilities and assaults. Officers used targeted crowd control for the safety of law enforcement and the public. No tear gas was deployed.”
The NEA’s message then accused the “MAGA regime” of “abducting our loved ones and murdering our neighbors in pursuit of endless power and money, attacking our freedom to seek a better life and come home safely to our families.”
The email also promoted upcoming nationwide anti-ICE protests.
Meanwhile, a full-blown human rights crisis is emerging in Iran, as protesters fight against a dictatorial regime led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei is an unelected head of state who has dominated Iran since 1989.
Members of law enforcement work the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal operations on Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)
Iranian dissidents have taken to the streets in an uprising mainly driven by poor economic conditions, which have seen the Rial, the Iranian currency, steeply deflate in value. In response, the regime has cracked down hard on its own citizens, cutting off the internet and communications with the outside world.
The latest estimates say that about 2,000 people have been killed in the protests, and plans to publicly execute a 26-year-old protester Wednesday for the crime of “waging war against God.”
The teachers union has been silent on the Iranian regime’s brutal attempt to stifle protest.
The NEA dodged Fox News Digital’s questions about the email’s rhetoric, but re-upped its demand for ICE to leave its communities, and said its members are “committed to the safety and well-being of our students, their families and the communities they call home.”
“The presence of ICE undermines that mission and puts students, educators, and parents in harm’s way,” the group said. “From reckless shootings to terrifying our students with unnecessary actions near public schools, it is abundantly clear that we need ICE out of our communities.”
