We Keep Us Safe

20th of January 2026

We Keep Us Safe is a campaign that builds power to resist deportations and raids in Europe, kick-started by opposition to the EU Deportation Regulation.

Across Europe, people are resisting deportations, detention and raids. At airports. In detention centres. At court, on the streets, and in communities.

We Keep Us Safe showcase these actions to connect our struggles, showing none of us are isolated, and we all want the same thing: A Europe where communities are safe.

We believe safety doesn’t come from raids, detention, or outsourcing cruelty. We believe safety comes from communities, housing, healthcare, and public money spent on people, not cages.

No ICE-style Deportations

The EU Return Regulation, also known as the Deportation Regulation, creates a legal basis for ICE-style raids and mass detention in the EU. Propped up by expanded police and surveillance powers, powered by tech-enabled racial profiling, it sources deportations to private companies and unsafe third countries.

Nothing is off limits: children and families could be detained for over two years, people would be deported to countries they have never set foot in, and EU governments are ready to negotiate deportations with unrecognised state entities like the Taliban in Afghanistan.

This law tears families apart, expands state violence, and criminalises migration rather than addressing real needs.

Check Out “We Keep Us Safe” – Instagram

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What We’ve Done So Far

With WeMove, we’ve amassed over 100,000 people to call for an end to ICE-style deportations in Europe
Mobilised hundreds of activists in protest outside the European Parliament with We Keep Us Safe materials
Pushed our message into EU Observer, the Guardian, Politico, El Salto, La Matinale Européenne, Novara Media
Flyered over 500 MEPs to vote NO on Deportations Regulation and stickered across Europe

The European Parliament has approved the start of negotiations on the Deportation Regulation. What’s next? What do we do now?

A coalition of conservative (EPP) and far-right groups (ECR, ESN, PfE) hijacked negotiations of the deportations regulation with a harsher text.

These groups formed a majority to endorse this mandate, but with support from some MEPs from Renew (12 MEPs) and S&D (7 MEPs). These MEPs have endorsed a far-right era of deportations.

Far-right fascists now celebrate openly in the knowledge that they are now decision-makers in the European Parliament, setting the agenda on migration and extending their influence into other policy areas.

Migrant and racialised communities, as well as those in solidarity with them, can expect a climate of suspicion and fear, driven by profiling, raids and surveillance, and increased repression, discrimination, detention and deportations.

Now the law enters the final stage of negotiations between the European Commission, European Council and European Parliament.

The only way this law can now be stopped is by major objections in European capitals.

National governments need to be pressured to reject this far-right law.

Are you a grassroots group that wants to pressure your government to reject the law? Contact us

Follow our actions

Our Instagram is where we share actions, amplify grassroots organising, name the politicians behind the law, and show what we’re building instead. It’s where you’ll find the latest updates, calls to email MEPs, news on anti-raid or deportations action and stories of communities keeping each other safe.

Join a growing movement that believes we keep us safe. Tag us in your actions, share your local resistance, and help make our visibility unstoppable.