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ICE OUT actions across Idaho this week

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Protest crowd gathered at Idaho Statehouse. Sign in foreground reads: ICE = Domestic Terrorists.
One of the many ICE OUT protests held recently in Idaho (Jan. 17, 2026).

The Idaho 97 Project and Idaho 50501 have identified at least NINE ICE OUT protests and other pro-democracy actions across the state this week. As the polling below shows, we are now at a tipping point on the Trump deportation agenda, and record numbers of Idahoans are speaking out this weekend, demanding no new funding for the Department of Homeland Security, an end to Gov. Brad Little’s cooperation agreement with ICE (sign the 287g agreement petition), and ICE out of our state. 

ICE protests this week across Idaho:

  • Wednesday, Jan. 28, Twin Falls City Park (link)
  • Friday, Jan. 30
    • 2 pm, Idaho Capitol (link)
    • 4:30 pm, Boise Veterans Administration Medical Center, 500 W. Fort Street (link)
  • Saturday, Jan 31
    • 11 am, Caldwell Park, Pocatello (link)
    • 11:30 am, Indian Creek Plaza, Caldwell (link)
    • 2-4 pm, Broadway Bridge, Idaho Falls 
    • 3 pm, Boise Bicycle Project ride, 1027 S. Lusk St., Boise (link) (also in Pocatello, leaving from Oregon Trail Bikes)
    • 5:30 pm, Madison County Courthouse, Rexburg

All of the facts and figures below are linked and citable. Feel free to post them on your socials!

ICE is very unpopular.

  • 57% of voters disapprove of how ICE is enforcing immigration laws, while just 40% approve. [Quinnipiac - Jan 13]
  • Protesters are now more popular than ICE: 44% approve of protests against ICE vs. 42% disapprove [YouGov, January 2026]
  • 51% of adults said enforcement is making cities less safe — not safer [CNN - Jan 14]
  • Even Republicans increased support for abolishing ICE by 6 points [Civiqs]

In Idaho: Idahoans are now much more favorable of immigrants with 59% favorable overall, compared to 46% in 2024 [ACLU of Idaho, Jan 8]

  • 81% of Idahoans support creating pathways to legal status for immigrants who meet work and residency requirements.
  • 76% of Idahoans support creating pathways to legal permanent status for DACA recipients.
  • More than half of respondents (56%) say immigrants make the country better in the long run, compared to just over two in five (41%) last year.
“Idahoans are shouting from street corners across the state: We want ICE out of our communities, schools, hospitals and workplaces,” said Mike Satz of The Idaho 97 Project. “Unaccountable, masked agents are terrorizing us and our neighbors – we saw this very clearly in the Wilder raid in October, where ICE detained whole families during a Sunday outing, and now in Minneapolis, Maine, Arizona, and across the nation. Idahoans are not ok with this federal incursion.” 

ICE is acting above the law:

  • A secret ICE legal memo from May argues that ICE agents can enter private homes without a warrant from a judge, IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION’S  Fourth Amendment prohibition on unlawful search and seizure. [AP, background]
  • ICE has killed at least 9 people THIS MONTH ALONE, and ICE and Border Patrol agents have shot at people and into vehicles dozens of times in the past year, killing at least 22 people in 2025 [Guardian US, List of shootings on Wikipedia].  
  • Federal agents executed Alex Pretti for documenting their actions. They've killed Renee Nicole Good, Silverio Villegas González, Isaias Sanchez Barboza, and Keith Porter and many more.
  • The Idaho governor and members of the federal delegation have issued very similar statements of support for ICE in the past week and have voted for or plan to vote for additional ICE funding. 
    • Simpson “stands with ICE” and voted for a record $28 billion in additional FY2026 funds for ICE and CBP (the budget bill that is currently under negotiation in the Senate).
    • Crapo supports the continued ICE deployment to Minnesota.
    • Risch supports Idaho’s cooperation agreement with ICE, but appears to have remained silent on ICE killings in Minneapolis – ask him about it! 
    • Fulcher voted for a record $28 billion in additional FY2026 funds for ICE and CBP (the budget bill that is currently under negotiation in the Senate), and is a member of the Freedom Caucus (also his top political donor), which wants the Trump occupation of Minneapolis to continue and suggests invoking the Insurrection Act.
    • Gov. Little made a JOKE about ICE in his recent State of the State speech.
  • Idahoans should know their rights. Find a workshop and learn how to defend your community.