Hundreds march through Philly in protest of ICE raids nationwide

Hundreds of people marched through Center City on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest raids across the country from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The group gathered at Philadelphia Immigration Court on 9^th and Market streets on Monday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m. and marched to the ICE Philadelphia Field Office on 114 North 8^th Street.

State Senator Art Haywood (D-4th District) as well as several interfaith religious groups and community leaders helped organize the rally.

Anti-ICE protests have occurred nationwide – including in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs — after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, back on Jan. 7, 2026.

Amid the protests, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and other city leaders held a press conference back on Jan. 14 in which they vowed to hold ICE accountable for any potential breaches of law.

“This is ultimately about good versus evil. That’s what it is. It’s about good versus evil,” Krasner said. “Renee Nicole Good is just part of that good and she is up against evil.”

Krasner said his office would not hesitate to prosecute a federal agent if they operated in a similar fashion to the agent involved in the deadly Minnesota shooting.

“We will arrest you. We will handcuff you. We will close those cuffs. We will put you in a cell. We will set your bail and I’m going to ask for it to be appropriately high,” said Krasner. “We will take you to trial and I’m going to do everything in my power to convict you and we will make sure you serve your entire sentence because Donald Trump has no power, whatsoever, to pardon you. That’s the way the law works.”

Krasner reinforced local officials’ authority in the city, arguing that law dictates that in any American city federal agents can be arrested, prosecuted and cannot be pardoned by the President of the United States.

“What the law says is very clear, very clear, very clear, do you hear me JD Vance?” Krasner performatively asked the Vice President. “What the law says is federal officers can’t murder you.”