Let's Kick ICE OUT of Vermont
ICE Out Vermont Alliance is a coalition of community, faith-based, and activist organizations demanding that ICE and CBP cease illegal conduct and adhere to human rights, moral rights, and constitutional law.
Our Mission
Vermont groups and residents are invited to join our statewide campaign to demand that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) immediately cease their illegal conduct. We demand that ICE/CBP adhere to human rights, moral rights, and constitutional law immediately. We presented our demands to ICE/CBP by letter and in-person – requesting a meeting with ICE/CBP to meet our urgent demands in May. When we did not get a reply, we held a large, legal, and peaceful demonstration at Taylor Park in St. Albans, and a peaceful, non-violent sit-in at Customs and Border Protection office in St. Albans on Friday, May 8, 2026.
"Minnesota has demonstrated the positive effect of disciplined and calm nonviolence in deterring the worst abuses of the federal immigration machinery. I have no doubt Vermonters can be as brave and as collected."
— Bill McKibben
Our Demands
We call on ICE and CBP, and on Vermont's leaders, to take the following actions:
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Abolish ICE
We demand that ICE be abolished and replaced with a humane immigration system that recognizes the dignity and value of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. The culture of intimidation, violence, and terror employed by ICE is irredeemable and must stop.
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Provide a Path to Permanent Residency or Citizenship
We demand a path to permanent residency or citizenship for immigrants, especially those whose homelands have been made unlivable and whose lives have been upended by economic hardship, natural disaster, climate change, and war.
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End the Criminalization of Immigrants
End the apprehension, arrest, detention, and deportation of immigrants. No more quotas, no more inhumane warehousing, no more racial profiling. For example, denying detainees safe living conditions, food, and medical treatment is proof that this system cannot be reformed.
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Recognize Immigrant Rights are Human Rights
Access to justice is a fundamental human right. Provide legal services to all immigrants presently being arrested or in ICE custody. Guarantee immigrants timely, fair hearings while they continue to live in their home communities.
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Protect Privacy and Right to Assemble
No more surveillance, data collection and sharing, or tip line centers in Vermont or anywhere. Our Constitutional right to peaceful assembly must be respected and protected.
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Vermont Must Protect All Vermonters
Vermont must protect all Vermonters and their communities. Vermont must stop state and municipal police from enabling, cooperating, or assisting in violence against immigrants and their communities. Pass into law a strong Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.
We Acknowledge
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Indigenous Lands
We acknowledge most of us are descendants of immigrants in a land that once belonged to and was violently taken from Indigenous peoples.
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Migration
We acknowledge a truth that runs deep in the fabric of our society. Immigration to the United States has largely been fueled by the promise of the American Dream. Historically, people have left their homes and taken the risks of starting a new life for a wide spectrum of reasons. But in recent decades, this spectrum has encompassed a far more desperate reality for many more people. Migration has become an inescapable necessity for survival, as climate change, violence, war, and economic desperation have made life in one's homeland dangerous at best and deadly at worst.
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Our Responsibility
As Americans, we have not been innocent witnesses of all this. Through military intervention, support for authoritarian regimes, trade policies, and historical contributions to climate change, we are directly responsible for the conditions bringing refugees and migrants to our borders. We also directly benefit from what immigrants contribute to our economy yet deny their dignity. In Vermont alone, 94% of dairy farms depend on immigrant labor—the backbone of our iconic dairy industry. Similar dependencies exist in other sectors, including health care and construction.