His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, and his killing by ICE agents on Friday, September 12, in Franklin Park, Illinois, is an act of shocking political violence owed our attention and outrage.

The [bourgeois] state has killed a father, a human being, a person who had become the target of a national-level ethnic cleansing campaign at the center of a [neo]fascist hate machine. Chicago and surrounding areas are the site of the so-called “Midway Blitz,” an increased immigration enforcement campaign directed by Donald Trump timed to coincide with Mexican Independence Day. Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez has paid a terrible price for this [neo]fascist special project.

Villegas-Gonzalez had just dropped his children off at daycare when he was stopped.

In an attempt to justify the killing, ICE agents said they feared for their lives, they were threatened, they were only acting in self defense. The Department of Homeland Security has refused to release any further details to bolster these claims, leaving us to take the word of an institution of kidnappers and abusers that this time they did the right thing.

Villegas-Gonzalez was a human being, and now he is dead. As our movement ancestor and labor activist Mother Jones said, we must mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)