"Take their neighbors, classmates, and community members? Not on their watch. Moms around the country dedicated much of their year to protecting children and families in their communities from unlawful deportation. There was the group of over a dozen moms arrested while protesting outside Broadview Detention Center in Chicago. There was t he mom group who organized a "walking school bus" to get children to school safely if their parents feared being targeted by ICE."
"In 2020, 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was murdered for being a Black man jogging in a suburban Georgia neighborhood. His mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, vowed then that she would get justice for her son. Even with cell phone video footage of the murder, it took until 2022 for the three men involved to be convicted of murder. And in November 2025, an appeals court upheld the hate crime conviction, stating that any reasonable jury would conclude Arbery's race was the factor that led to his killing."
Mothers across the country mobilized to protect children and families from immigration enforcement, organizing protests, legal aid, supply drives, and community safety measures. Some groups faced arrest while protesting outside detention centers; others created "walking school buses" to escort children to school when parents feared ICE targeting. Wanda Cooper-Jones pursued legal accountability after Ahmaud Arbery's murder; the three defendants were convicted in 2022 and an appeals court upheld a hate crime conviction in 2025. Cooper-Jones founded the Ahmaud Arbery Foundation to combat systemic injustice and create safe spaces for young Black men and was honored by Adidas. Jessica Rozen intervened at a Bondi Beach Chanukah event to protect a child during a mass shooting.
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