American women’s basketball star Breanna Stewart protested with a sign calling for ‘Abolish ICE’ (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) before a game in Miami following the death on Saturday of a US citizen who was shot by the Border Patrol in Minnesota.
The great New York Liberty player and co-founder of the Unrivaled league justified in a post on Instagram, available this Monday, that “saying ‘Abolish ICE’ is about advocating for policies that uplift families and strengthen communities, instead of stoking fear and violence.”
«Our communities deserve better. “They deserve security, dignity and compassion, not trauma and division,” wrote the 31-year-old basketball player, considered one of the best players in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA, in English).
It should be noted that Breanna Stewart is a basketball player born in North Syracuse, NY, who belongs to the New York Liberty team of the WNBA professional league.
With the United States team, Stewart has been world champion in 2014, 2018, 2022 and Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024.
On her Instagram account, Stewart showed the sign calling for ‘Abolish ICE’ before playing in an arena in Miami for Unrivaled, the league she co-founded for 3-on-3 matches.
Their demonstration occurs after growing outrage because on Saturday the Border Patrol shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen in Minnesota, just two and a half weeks after the death of the poet Renee Good, also a 37-year-old US citizen, killed by ICE.
Pressure against ICE and President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy has increased this year following the deaths of Good and Pretti, in addition to clashes between protesters and federal agents in Minnesota.
“As a mother, nothing scares me more than seeing families torn apart, children traumatized, and parents living in fear of losing their loved ones,” Stewart said.
After Good’s death, a poll by YouGov and The Economista showed on January 13 that for the first time there are more Americans, 46% compared to 43%, who support abolishing ICE, created in 2003 by then-President George W. Bush (2001-2009) after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
