Protesters line Miami's Vizcaya pedestrian bridge to decry Trump, ICE and Renee Good's killing

David Goodhue, Miami Herald on Jan 12, 2026

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MIAMI — As commuters headed home during Monday evening’s rush hour on U.S. 1 in Coconut Grove, high above them on a pedestrian bridge protesters demonstrating against the Trump administration’s immigration policies held signs and chanted slogans as drivers honked their horns below.

About 20 people gathered on the Vizcaya pedestrian overpass next to the Metrorail station demanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement end its current campaign of rounding up undocumented immigrants. They also paid tribute to Renee Macklin Good, the 37-year-old mother of three shot and killed by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis.

“This is not the first incident, and unfortunately, it won’t be the last,” said Ed, a 51-year-old demonstrator who declined to provide his last name, about Good’s death. “We need Congress to freeze out the funding for ICE until this behavior is fixed.”

Yurina Gil, 46, compared the current political climate to her native Cuba, which she left when she was a teen. She said she sees similarities with President Donald Trump’s administration and the communist Castro regime.

“I’m losing my country again,” said Gil, who lives in Brickell. “I’ve lost one already. I came here when I was 18, and I saw the same trends that I saw in Cuba (Trump), but I didn’t think it would be this fast.”

Gil, a Democrat, is a candidate in the general election for Florida’s 26th U.S. Congressional District against incumbent Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican. The district includes Doral, Hialeah and Miami Lakes as well as Wynwood, Allapattah and the Naples area.

Michael Russell said he came to the demonstration because “We have got to save this democracy and this constitutional republic. And, at the rate we are going, if we don’t come out, it’s not going to happen.”

Anthony Bernon, 28, said Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about the aggressive tactics being used by ICE and other federal agencies enforcing immigration policy.

“There’s a lot of things that bring people out here, but ultimately, it’s authoritarianism,” said Bernon, who lives in south Miami-Dade. “When something feels like a paramilitary force, people are going to react to that.”

Gil was one of the protesters using a bullhorn to chant slogans like “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go.” She said she is worried about what will happen with U.S. immigration policy before the next presidential election.

“We don’t have until 2028, and we just have to make a change, and hopefully 2026 will be that year,” she said.

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