National Valentine’s Day Week of Action Calls for Love, Dignity, and Accountability for Immigrant Communities
“To Immigrants with Love” Actions Take Place Nationwide February 9–15
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, February 9th through 15th, advocates, community members, faith leaders, and immigrant rights organizations across the country are participating in To Immigrants With Love, a national Valentine’s Day Week of Action rooted in nonviolent action, collective care, and public accountability.
Organized by the Disappeared In America campaign allies and partners – more than 100 groups in total – the week of action is a response to the escalating violence, intrusive enforcement practices, and documented abuses carried out by the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs, and Border Protection (CBP).
Throughout the week, participants are taking part in coordinated digital actions, community-based solidarity efforts, vigils, and calls to Congress demanding oversight, transparency, and accountability for immigration enforcement agencies. Members of the public can learn more: https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/897019/
A Week Rooted in Love, Solidarity, and Accountability
To Immigrants With Love is designed to offer accessible, meaningful ways for people nationwide to participate—whether online, in their communities, or through direct advocacy. Rather than focusing on a single day, the week-long format allows individuals and organizations to show up in ways that fit their capacity while contributing to a shared national moment.
Actions throughout the week emphasize affirming dignity and due process, rejecting cruelty and abuse of power, and demonstrating that communities across the country are united in solidarity with immigrants and their families.
From Our Partners
“We see every day what immigrants have to go through and this week is a week to show our love, appreciation and support. I hope individuals can join this week by taking a few minutes to take action — whether you’re an immigrant or whether you were born in the U.S.,” said Todd Schulte, President of FWD.us.
“This Valentine’s Day, we’re making it clear that love and intentional action are the antidote to Trump’s hateful anti-immigrant agenda,” said Carly Pérez Fernández, Communications Director at Detention Watch Network. “Across the country, people are uniting to keep their immigrant family members, neighbors, and friends safe from ICE as the agency kills people and threatens community safety across the country. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. No more abuse and death at the hands of ICE. We demand Congress not give ICE any money in the 2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.”
“Love is not passive — it is powerful, it is courageous, and it is what carries us through moments like this. Across the country, immigrants are under siege, especially day laborers standing on street corners and outside Home Depots at dawn, bringing their heart and their labor to build and sustain this nation. They deserve safety and respect — not harassment and fear. During this week of action, we resist in love and in solidarity with those most vulnerable. Stand with the workers, the families, the neighbors who make our communities whole. When we choose love over cruelty and solidarity over silence, we become unstoppable.” — Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
“This Valentine’s Day at Public Citizen, we’re coming together in solidarity with immigrant communities to make it clear to the Trump administration that the American people will not stand for the violent and unlawful tactics being carried out by ICE and CBP,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen and co-chair of the Not Above the Law coalition. “Our congressional leaders must get federal agents off our streets, ensure there is no increase to DHS funding and demand meaningful reforms to ensure no more lives are lost. In this moment we must choose community over cruelty, and dignity over abuse of power and lawlessness. Now, more than ever, we as Americans must stand up and fight back together against this administration’s inhumanity.”
“To immigrants with love. Not as a sentiment. As a commitment. This Valentine’s Day Week of Action is about standing with immigrant communities who are being targeted and harmed, and making clear that cruelty and abuse of power have no place in our country,” said Ann Toback, CEO of The Workers Circle. “We are choosing love, accountability, and community – together.”
“This year, the best way we can spread love is by taking action. At a time when immigrant communities are facing escalating cruelty, family separation, and abuses of power, we are choosing to respond with courage, care, and collective accountability,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, Executive Director of Women’s March. “This week of action is a reminder that our communities are strongest when we stand together to defend our neighbors and the fundamental human rights every person deserves. We will not look away, and we will not stop demanding justice.”
“This Valentine’s Day, El Paso Border communities are standing for love, family, and justice in the face of a system built on fear and separation,” said Fernando Garcia, Executive Director of the BNHR. “ICE terrorizes our neighborhoods, detention camps like Camp East Montana tear families apart, and the expansion of this cruel system steals resources from the communities that need them most. We are demanding ICE out of our communities, the immediate shutdown of Camp East Montana, an end to all detention expansion, and policies that keep families together, because love is stronger than fear, and families deserve safety, dignity, and unity, not cages.”
“Every week on the sandy Everglades soil outside Alligator Alcatraz, love is overcoming every attempt to divide us as immigrants and citizens together are holding vigil and fighting back together”, said Noelle Damico, Director of Social Justice The Workers Circle who leads the weekly Freedom Vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz and other immigrant detention facilities. “Love goes the distance and so will we, for one another and for this country.”
About Disappeared In America
Disappeared In America is a national campaign formed by the Not Above the Law coalition working to expose and end the violence, disappearance, and abuse faced by immigrant communities under U.S. immigration enforcement. The coalition advocates for accountability, transparency, and justice, while supporting community-led efforts rooted in dignity and care.