Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border w/ Silky Shah & Harsha Walia (Live) (02/12/26)

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Silky Shah and Harsha Walia discuss the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls for the abolition of much more than ICE. This episode was recorded live on February 12th 2026 in collaboration with Haymarket Books. You can watch the original livestream on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YJqx1zY2c To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find Harsha Walia's book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781642592696 Find Silky Shah's book Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900840 Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us tonight for tonight's panel, which is called Abolish Ice, Abolish the Border, with Harsia, Silki Shaw, and myself, Beatrice Souther Bolton. This panel is organized by Haymarket Books and Death Panel Podcast, and I am the co-host of the Death Panel Podcast and the co-author with Artie Virkant of the
0:55.3	book's Health Communism published by Bursow in 2022 and All Care for All People, which is
1:01.9	forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
1:05.1	Arty is taking point on child care duties tonight and sense his regrets that he can't join us.
1:12.5	But I speak for both of us when I say that I am so deeply humbled and honored to be a discussion with Harsha and Silky,
1:18.8	two absolutely brilliant comrades whose decades of organizing and uncompromising analysis
1:24.7	have helped so many of us understand the violence of immigration policing
1:28.9	and how to fight it. Silky Shaw is the executive director of Detention Watch Network,
1:35.3	a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in the U.S.
1:39.8	She's also the author of the book Unbilled Walls, White Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,
1:44.5	published by Haymarket in 2024.
1:47.0	She's worked as an organizer on issues related to immigration detention,
1:50.7	the prison industrial complex, and racial and migrant justice for over 20 years.
1:55.9	And Harsiawalia is the award-winning author of Border Ed Rule,
1:59.4	published by Haymarket in 2021, and undoing
2:02.3	border imperialism published by AK, AK Press in 2013. Trained in the law, she is a community
2:09.4	organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist
2:14.7	movements, including no one is illegal and Women's Memorial March
2:18.3	Committee. And thank you to you all at home for gathering with us for this really urgent
2:23.2	discussion on the brutal immigration policing happening where I'm based in Minneapolis and St. Paul
2:28.9	and the Twin Cities metro area since early December 2025, as well as in cities across the United States from Los Angeles
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