Image: A protest outside the ICE field office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Photograph: Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty Images

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On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.

“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter.

Philadelphia’s protests were just two of more than a thousand planned for this weekend in the wake of three ICE-related shootings, one fatal, in the week since the Trump administration’s seizure of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president. Many of the events, such as the Saturday morning protest in Philadelphia, were planned as part of the ICE Out for Good weekend of action called by national organizations, including Indivisible and the American Civil Liberties Union, following the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The Democratic Socialists of America had also planned a national day of action to stop Trump’s “illegal war” in Venezuela.

“They’re murdering legal observers. They’re being blatant about the reality that they’re invading countries for oil. This is not a fringe radical thing. This is murder and illegal war crimes,” said Rick Krajewski, the Pennsylvania representative, who represents parts of west Philadelphia, after addressing the crowd at the afternoon’s protest.

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