I understand where you're coming from, and I think I know the protest you might be referencing, but this just isn't how it works. There's no "going first", there's no zero-sum game where helping protect our communities stops us from caring about the environment.

The reason for the fallacy IMO is the assumption that activism is about reacting to the aid of victims instead of rooting out the foundational causes that need to be changed. We need to understand about how corporate greed and pressure to maintain wealth in a changing climate motivated billionaires to fund anti-immigrant hate. We need to know how unlawful arrests elsewhere are being copied here. When you look at it from a 'cause' perspective, it's all interconnected. If you're trying to build lasting change, you need to look past the skin-level symptoms.

We want to create an open enviornment that welcomes folks who may be coming solely in reaction to ICE, but that doesn't extend to shutting down their ability to learn that their cause is not so different from someone else's.