The CGIL General Assembly expresses its deep concern and indignation at the serious events that have taken place in the United States, particularly in Minnesota, where a general strike and a mass demonstration protested against the repression and violence carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 23 January 2026.

The killing of poet Renee Good and nurse Alex Pretti, an unarmed healthcare worker fatally shot while attempting to protect a woman under arrest, together with the arrest of the minor Liam Conejo Ramos, constitutes a serious and unacceptable attack on human rights, trade union freedom, and the right to peaceful protest. Under the Trump administration, ICE acts as a repressive force that instils fear through raids and intimidation, targeting workers, migrants, families and minors, including in workplaces and educational institutions. In this context, the threats and acts of intimidation directed at a RAI television crew in Minnesota are particularly alarming, and the CGIL General Assembly expresses its solidarity. Any potential involvement of ICE in Italy during the Winter Olympic Games would represent a grave affront to democratic values and institutional norms.

Such practices represent a profound injury to the world of work and to democratic coexistence. The mobilisation in Minnesota stands as a significant example of civil and trade union resistance to an authoritarian drift based on fear, racism and repression.

The CGIL General Assembly expresses its full solidarity with the families of the victims, the American trade union confederation AFL-CIO, and all workers and citizens engaged in the defence of fundamental rights. It further commits CGIL to strengthening relations of international solidarity with trade unions in the United States and the international trade union movement; to supporting ongoing mobilisations; and to defending, everywhere, the rights of migrants, minors, as well as freedom of organisation and protest.