Disappeared In America – A Campaign of Not Above the Law Coalition Campaign
Since its launch in the summer of 2025, the Disappeared in America campaign has led a series of peaceful public actions lifting the stories of those directly impacted by the anti-immigrant policies of the current administration and to call for the end of the occupation of targeted areas by the National Guard and ICE.
Disappeared in America is a campaign housed within the Not Above the Law Coalition which is co-led by Public Citizen with MoveOn, Stand Up America, the Constitutional Accountability Center and hundreds of other organizations.
In November of 2025, Disappeared in America coordinated a nationwide series of actions to end the kidnapping, detention and deportation of our neighbors and to defend the due process rights of all people. Partnering with the Detention Watch Network and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, we led the “Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos Action” to honor the thirty two lives lost in ICE detention in 2025 and “ICE Out of Home Depot actions.”
Recently, Disappeared in America mobilized in response to the killing of two community members in Minneapolis by ICE agents. As part of the ICE Out for Good and No Kings coalition, Public Citizen supported a series of trainings on best practices on documenting and recording ICE raids which attracted more than 100,000 viewers on YouTube.
- Eyes on Ice training
- Media Highlights
Background
The Disappeared In America campaign brings together a diverse coalition of immigrant rights, faith-based, racial justice, and pro-democracy organizations determined to expose and resist the Trump administration’s abuses of power. The campaign’s mission is rooted in defending the basic principles of justice, transparency, and Constitutional rights — values that are under direct threat when people can be detained, deported, or disappeared without accountability. Through collective action and visual storytelling, Disappeared In America seeks to humanize the impact of these policies and mobilize Americans to demand change.