Webinar Draws 600 to Learn How to Monitor ICE Expansion

The 'ICE Out Everywhere' training focused on derailing 287(g) agreements and halting new immigration detention facilities

Apr. 16, 2026 at 10:52am

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A heavily textured, abstract painting of an ICE detention facility rendered in overlapping, fractured geometric shapes in dark blue, grey, and black, conveying a sense of chaos and resistance against the agency's expansion.As ICE expands its detention infrastructure across the country, a grassroots movement is mobilizing to monitor and challenge the agency's activities in local communities.McAllen Today

Over 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 immigration 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, including through partnerships with law enforcement and the expansion of detention infrastructure. As the number of 287(g) agreements has surged, there are concerns about the use of taxpayer funds to augment federal immigration enforcement efforts.

The details

The 'ICE Out Everywhere' webinar provided training on safe, non-violent monitoring of ICE activities, including putting pressure on local politicians and lawmakers to push back against ICE expansion. Participants learned tactics such as documenting the strain on a community's infrastructure from new detention facilities and reaching out to local media about ICE arrests and their humanitarian and economic impacts.

  • 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 challenging ICE expansion in local communities.

Jill Garvey

The co-director of STAC who spoke about the webinar and the group's upcoming trainings on ICE monitoring and community defense.

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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, States at the Core (STAC)

“Challenge the 287(g), the cooperation with law enforcement using taxpayer funds to, in essence, augment border patrolling.”

— Jill Garvey, Co-director, States at the Core (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, States at the Core (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 movement to challenge ICE's expanding presence and influence in local communities, including through partnerships with law enforcement and the construction of new detention facilities. The training focuses on non-violent tactics to document, monitor, and push back against ICE's activities at the local level.