The Political Power of the Image in the Protest Against ICE (2024–2025)

“The Political Power of the Image in the Protest Against ICE (2024–2025)” examines how visuality became a key form of resistance during protests against ICE immigration raids in the United States. Through viral photographs—such as families confronting heavily armed officers or kneeling protesters holding hand-made signs—the chapter shows that images function not merely as documentation but as political statements that challenge official narratives and humanize targeted communities. Using concepts such as countervisuality, technopolitics, and scopic governmentality, the author explains how migrant communities employed images as tools for denunciation, mobilization, and the construction of insurgent subjectivities.