From Amanda Gorman:
On January 7th, 2026, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good by shooting her in the head through her car window. She was a poet and writer, a wife, and a mother of three.
Like many, I am horrified by the ongoing violence that ICE wages upon our community. Across our country, we are witnessing discrimination and brutality on an unconscionable scale.
We remember and mourn not only Renee, but all those ICE has killed, including Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and Keith Porter, who were also shot by ICE. We also remember the 32 individuals who died in ICE custody last year, with 2025 marking the deadliest year in ICE’s history in over two decades.
I encourage you to donate to my fundraiser for @ACLUMN who are currently engaged in legal action against ICE.
Other ways to offer support include donating to organizations such as:
Unidos MN @UnidosMN
Monarcha Rapid Response Line at monarcamn.org/
Immigrant Law Center MN @immigrantlawcentermn
National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman pens a moving poem in the wake of the tragic ICE murder of Minneapolis mother and fellow poet, Renée Good.
“For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026.”
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
