Why the ICE uprisings won’t be as prevailing as the BLM protests of 2020

Published June 23, 2025 8:00am ET



Five years ago, the Black Lives Matter protests became the broadest and most sustained social movement in recent U.S. history by multiple measures. Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the 2020 protests is another large-scale crusade against law enforcement, specifically against immigration authorities.

At the peak of the 2020 protests, crowd-counters estimated as many as 26 million people poured out into the streets, with pop-up BLM marches even spreading to small-town America.

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