I created this song “in honor of” ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), a US government agency from hell. Let me know which version you prefer in the comments section below, on my YouTube account (watch on YouTube), or via email. Also, let me know why. I know it’s a purely subjective judgement, but I like hearing people’s reasoning.

Check out this new page on my blog that includes links to articles about ICE’s and the MAGA regime’s dirty work, including arrests, detentions, and deportations: US Higher Education Under Attack. Sadly, the hits keep on coming.

Version #1

Version #2

(Verse 1) They come in the night, boots on the ground, knocking down doors without a sound. A mother cries, a child screams, a family’s torn like shattered dreams.

(Chorus) Tear down the walls, break every chain, no more families lost in pain. No more raids, no more fear, we stand together, we’re staying here.

(Verse 2) They lock ‘em up in freezing cells, no warmth, no hope, just living hell. Paperwork piles, justice denied, a country built on love has lied.

(Chorus) Tear down the walls, break every chain, No more families lost in pain. No more raids, no more fear, we stand together, we’re staying here.

(Bridge) No human being is illegal, no child should be alone. We fight for truth, we fight for freedom, we take back what they stole.

(Verse 3) They say it’s law, they say it’s right, but how can cruelty shine so bright? If justice sleeps, we’ll shake the ground, Until these cages all come down.

(Final Chorus) Tear down the walls, break every chain, No more families lost in pain. No more raids, no more fear, we stand together, we’re staying here.

(Outro – softly) One by one, we rise and fight, for every heart, for every life.

My favorite line: They say it’s law, they say it’s right, but how can cruelty shine so bright? Cruelty is at the heart of so much of what this regime is doing. If I were to replace one word in this song, it would be this: from a country built on love has lied to a country built on law has lied.

Turn it up, take it to heart, act, and resist!

Postscript: This song also reminds me of Israel’s ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Postscript #2: Next up, a song about the Joseph Goebbels of the MAGA regime, a man so noxious, so cruel, and so evil that even “dozens” of his family members hate him (and that was in 2018!). I can’t wait for the time of the three Rs – reckoning, retribution, and revenge. Tick-tock. One by one, we rise and fight, for every heart, for every life.

Peace, MAA