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McAllen Today
By the People, for the People
Webinar Draws 600 to Learn How to Monitor ICE Expansion
The 'ICE Out Everywhere' training focused on derailing 287(g) agreements and halting new ICE detention facilities.
Apr. 16, 2026 at 7:19pm
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As ICE's reach expands, a grassroots movement mobilizes to monitor the agency's activities and halt its growth in local communities.McAllen TodayOver 600 people signed up for a webinar hosted by the nonprofit group States at the Core (STAC) to learn how to monitor and thwart U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expansion activities in local communities. The 90-minute free webinar focused on derailing 287(g) immigration program agreements with local law enforcement agencies and halting the construction of new ICE detention facilities across the country.
Why it matters
The webinar is part of a growing grassroots movement to challenge ICE's increasing presence and influence in local communities, particularly through partnerships with law enforcement under the 287(g) program. As ICE seeks to expand its detention capacity nationwide, community groups are organizing to document, monitor, and resist these efforts on the ground.
The details
The 'ICE Out Everywhere' webinar provided training on safe, non-violent methods for monitoring ICE activities, such as documenting the impact of new detention facilities on local infrastructure and reaching out to media about ICE arrests. Participants also learned strategies for pressuring local politicians and lawmakers to push back against ICE expansion. The webinar stressed that communities should not have to choose between jobs and 'peoples' freedoms and rights'.
- The webinar was hosted on Wednesday, April 16, 2026.
- By January 2026, the number of 287(g) agreements between ICE and law enforcement agencies had increased to 1,372 from 135 in January 2025.
The players
States at the Core (STAC)
A nonprofit group that hosted the 'ICE Out Everywhere' webinar to provide training on monitoring and resisting ICE expansion in local communities.
Jill Garvey
The co-director of STAC who spoke about the webinar and the group's upcoming trainings.
What they’re saying
“The training is really a step beyond just documenting and responding to ICE in your neighborhood. It is thinking about all the other parts of the deportation machine.”
— Jill Garvey, Co-director of STAC
“Challenge the 287(g), the cooperation with law enforcement using taxpayer funds to, in essence, augment border patrolling.”
— Jill Garvey, Co-director of STAC
“We shouldn't have to choose jobs that that are generated on the backs of peoples' freedoms and rights … We shouldn't have to trade on our humanity to generate jobs.”
— Jill Garvey, Co-director of STAC
What’s next
STAC is hosting additional trainings on April 22 and April 24 to further educate participants on monitoring ICE activities and building community defense networks.
The takeaway
This webinar highlights the growing grassroots resistance to ICE's expansion into local communities, as advocacy groups work to document, monitor, and challenge the agency's partnerships with law enforcement and efforts to build new detention facilities nationwide.
