Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense. “I’m scared to go to work,” a migrant massage worker in New York City told Red Canary Song…

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