Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey joined Boston labor unions at an anti-ICE rally on Friday.
Casey and around a thousand labor union and community members braved frigid temperatures at the rally near the South Bay Mall, uniting the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC), citywide leadership of the largest federation of workers in the United States.
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Casey, the son of a union worker and local teamster, was on hand and caught up with Working Mass, which reported on the rally.
“Hell yeah, abolish ICE. They’re coming door to door, going to people’s houses, snatching people off the street, taking people who are taking part in the immigration process the way they’re supposed to,” Casey said of ICE, which has been at the center of deadly and violent interactions with protesters in Minneapolis while conducting a major immigration enforcement operation in the area. “How do you show up and snatch someone when they’re showing up for their hearing?”
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He added: “That just proves we’re not trying to establish any proper chain of immigration here. [They’re] just trying to basically get brown people off the street is what I think they’re trying to accomplish.”
Casey stressed that mobilizing workers in a general strike could lead to the abolition or reformation of ICE.
“I like to see the thought of a general strike because I think in the long run it might be our only way out of this mess… if you’re talking about the workers in the unions, that’s the infrastructure to be the tip of the spear to make the change to put forth the effort to mobilize,” Casey said.
Casey has also made his opinion known in the anti-ICE song “Citizen I.C.E.” — a reworking of the Dropkick Murphys’ 2005 song “Citizen C.I.A.” that’s set to be included on new tour-only split LP with fellow Bostonians Haywire.
As it stands, Casey and company will surely be performing the song on said US tour, which kicks off February 9th in Portland, Maine, and leads up to DKM’s St. Patrick’s Day residency shows at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. Get tickets here.
Watch the interview clip with Ken Casey from Friday’s protest below.
Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey joined unions and workers in Boston this weekend to protest ICE violence.
He told Working Mass why unions should lead a general strike and whether ICE can be reformed. pic.twitter.com/avI8M9WWG7
— Working Mass (@dsaworkingmass) January 25, 2026
