Ormond, Daytona Beach hold anti-ICE protests during Nationwide Weekend of Action

Local communities protest following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

  • By Michele Meyers
  • | 10:40 a.m. January 12, 2026
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Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach joined the hundreds of cities nationwide that held anti-ICE demonstrations on Saturday, Jan. 10, following recent shootings by federal immigration officers.

In Ormond, residents gathered at the intersection of Granada Boulevard and Beach Street with their chants and signage for the ICE Out for Good protest.

The Nationwide Weekend of Action was a mass call by activist groups, including Indivisible and MoveOn, following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, and the shooting of two people outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, Jan. 8. 

They (ICE agents) are causing so much unrest and fear. They’re criminals, they’re not trained and they’re not qualified. I’m here hoping to help abolish ICE and fight for democracy." — LISA ELLIS, protestor

Ormond Beach resident Suzanne McCarthy joined the mass online call on Thursday and quickly organized the event through the Indivisible website. By Friday, the local protest was on the map and McCarthy said she already had 50 people signed up.

“People want to do something,” she said. “So this weekend was just: Get out there and protest.”

Carol Andrews, a snowbird from Maine, turned 90 years old the week before the protest. 

“I’m here to protest because I have children,” she said. “But mostly because I have great grandchildren that I don’t want to see in a civil war or worse. That’s why I’m here. I’m also out here because I can be.”

Also at the protest where mother-daughter duo Dawn and Jaya Hunter. Dawn said she believes in the importance of teaching her daughter about her rights. Jaya said they were there to protest those rights because they are indigenous. Both of them held signs with the words “No one is illegal on stolen land."

“This world is going to be inherited by our children and we’re not really leaving much good stuff here,” Dawn said. “I brought my child out here because they have a voice. They have rights and they need to be heard.” 

In Daytona, protestors rallied in front of City Hall. Christy Howard, 70, and Lisa Ellis were among the first to arrive. They met close to a year ago at a protest.

“I did this during the Vietnam War,” Howard said. “Why do I have to keep doing this? I did this for the Iraqi war. Every Wednesday afternoon after work, we would meet on the corner of International and Nova. I’m tired of having to do this. I’m old, I’m a cancer survivor, I’m disabled — I am just tired.”

Ellis joined Howard to honor the life of Good and to protest violent actions by immigration officers.

“They (ICE agents) are causing so much unrest and fear,” she said. “They’re criminals, they’re not trained and they’re not qualified. I’m here hoping to help abolish ICE and fight for democracy.”

On the sidewalk in front of the Ormond Beach City Hall, Monica played the song “War” by Edwin Starr on her portable speaker.

“My parents immigrated here from Colombia,” she said. “I am proud I came to this country when I was three years old but I’m 66 now and I never thought I’d see this (unrest).”

 

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