Climate activists want to keep immigration enforcement officials up all night.
The youth-led climate organization the Sunrise Movement has been organizing “Wide Awake” protests outside hotels hosting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the Minneapolis region. Noisy demonstrators wielding signs, makeshift drums and sometimes saxophones show up outside hotels between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., hoping to make nights miserable for ICE agents and the hotels housing them.
It’s part of a broader move by Sunrise and other environmentalists to expand their focus beyond climate to fight the Trump administration on policies they say are undermining democracy, thereby threatening action on climate and other progressive policies.
“Some people have been asking us why a youth climate movement is organizing a campaign against ICE,” Sunrise posted on Instagram recently. “We can’t pass climate policy under a fascist regime that’s brought out by Big Oil and is literally starting wars on their behalf.”
