Continued care and protecting testimonies
Non-profits share what has improved and what hasn’t since Metro Surge
Minneapolis conference aims at re-energizing participants in ICE resistance
Topics included the continued threat to immigrant rights, but also future-focused concerns like voter protection and activating rural communities.
Volunteers aim to change perception of immigrants throughout Minnesota
Immigrant Defense Network volunteers spread positive messages across Minneapolis to counter negative perceptions.
Clergy bring prayer, compassion to ICE detainees in Whipple Building
Minnesota faith leaders hoped to comfort detainees more than a month after they say they were turned away.
‘ICE OUT’: Lorde to Donate Minneapolis Merch Sales to Immigrant Defense Network
New Zealand's Lorde is the latest celebrity to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
More than ICE: the protest industrial complex behind the anti-ICE movement
A connected group of nonprofits, funded by donors such as the Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and others, leverages immigration enforcement to further No Kings protests, the anti-Israel movement, and climate alarmism
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chair hears testimony on ICE tactics in Minnesota
People described their experiences during Operation Metro Surge, in hopes of persuading the commission to conduct a formal investigation.
Skepticism in Minnesota that new DHS leadership will ‘fix a broken system’
Activists in Minnesota, feeling bruised by the federal immigration surge, aren’t sure much will change under a new leader at Homeland Security.
Where the ICE relief concert money is going, and how much was raised
Brandi Carlile’s livestream at Target Center topped off several weeks of music and comedy events doubling as fundraisers.
Lost wages, legal costs add to toll for those detained in Minnesota ICE surge
Many families have had to seek support from mutual aid networks, schools and churches as breadwinners have been arrested and others have stayed home to avoid becoming a target.