Minnesota

Twin Cities Electrical Workers Build Solidarity

April 2, 2026 Gabriel Legierski, Mike Plante, and Peter Rachleff, Labor Notes. Organize! ICE, Labor Movement, Minnesota, Unions

For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security has been met by a multi-faceted grassroots resistance. As rank-and-file electricians, we sought to involve our local unions in the campaign to push ICE out of the Twin Cities and to support our immigrant neighbors and fellow workers. In early February, three weeks after the murder of Renee Nicole Good and just eight days after the murder of Alex Pretti, 40 members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) joined an “ICE OUT” potluck to talk about the occupation and its effects on working people.

Protesters Fill Capitol, Read Letters From Children Held In Immigration Custody

March 24, 2026 L. Cam Anderson, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Children, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, immigrants rights, Minnesota

Saint Paul, MN — More than 100 people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities around the country. The crowd, led into the capitol building by the immigrant rights-oriented nonprofit Unidos MN to protest a legislative session, pooled into the second floor outside of the Senate Chamber as an array of speakers read letters sent by children detained in ICE detention centers in Texas aloud. The protest follows a recent trend in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining more and more children, the Associated Press reported.

A Snapshot Of The Possible

March 21, 2026 Alex Han, In These Times. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota

In 2023, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party held a slim, single-seat majority in the Minnesota State Senate and control of the State House and Governor’s Mansion. It had been a decade since the last Democratic trifecta in the state, which like many similar moments of prior eras, produced only incremental wins for progressives and the Left. Since the financial crisis and Great Recession of the early Obama era, a core group of community and union organizers in Minnesota had been building what they called “alignment.” It would go beyond the traditional coalitions so many of us were used to — ones coalesced around a single fight but too pragmatic to inspire people to action.

From Mogadishu To Minneapolis

March 8, 2026 Elizabeth Schmidt, Africa is a Country. Educate! Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Somalia, US Intervention

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of some 80,000 people of Somali heritage, has been headline news in recent weeks—especially since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killing of two American citizens—both white—who witnessed ICE brutality. The presence of so many Somalis in Minneapolis and the special antipathy the Trump administration has for them has roots that go far deeper than the president’s hostility toward Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of his most forceful and outspoken critics.

Minneapolis: Organizing For The Protection Of The Community

February 17, 2026 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Minnesota, State Repression

Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wrecking on the community. The Trump administration’s decision to surge 2,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents into Minneapolis to uphold White House Deputy chief of Staff Steven Miller’s directive for the arrest in the U.S. of 3,000 persons each day to teach immigrants, and everyone in the U.S. a lesson, backfired as the actions of the federal agents in Minneapolis outraged the city, state and nation.

Minnesota Teachers, School Districts Go To Court To Evict ICE

February 12, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! Education, ICE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Teachers

Minneapolis, Minnesota - In Inver Grove Heights, Minn., ICE agents arrested a special ed paraprofessional in the Concord Education Center parking lot in that suburb south of St. Paul. In Brooklyn Center, another Twin Cities suburb, a parent of an elementary school student “was detained by federal agents while waiting at a school bus stop.” Both those arrests were on January 12. Both of those arrested were “profiled” by ICE. On January 7, ICE agents grabbed teachers at a Spanish-language children’s center in Apple Valley and a Spanish immersion academy in Minneapolis. They pulled the second teacher from her car.

Rally Outside Minnesota Governor’s Mansion: ‘No Selling Out For ICE!’

February 9, 2026 Livian Roth and Yann Chen, Fight Back! News. Resist! Governor Tim Walz, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Sanctuary City

St. Paul, MN – On the evening of February 6, hundreds of protesters gathered outside of Governor Tim Walz’s mansion. The event, organized by The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), was held to demand that elected office holders do not sell out for ICE. The rally responded to the announcement from “Border Czar” Tom Homan that 700 of the 3000 federal agents currently occupying Minnesota would be leaving. A decision that came after private meetings that included Governor Tim Walz. Homan stated that this decision was made due to the “unprecedented” level of cooperation between counties and federal law enforcement.

As ICE Terror Forces People Inside, Calls Grow For Eviction Moratorium

February 8, 2026 Theia Chatelle, Truthout. Resist! Eviction Moratorium, ICE, Minnesota, State Repression

Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands of families sheltering in place from masked federal agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work or school, bills are piling up, galvanizing calls for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium. “It is very expensive to be sheltering in place,” Yusra Murad, a communications organizer at Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia, told Truthout. Murad’s group is a Twin Cities–based tenants’ rights collective that is one of the groups leading the call for the eviction moratorium.

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents In Minnesota

February 7, 2026 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Educate! Abduction, Detention, ICE, Minnesota

Federal immigration agents have abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a workers’ rights organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. His attorney and son say he is currently held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, run by CoreCivic, one of the largest private prison companies in the United States. For the first time, his family is going to the press as community support for his release is swelling. “All we care about is having him back with us, at home in Minnesota,” his son, Gerardo Orozco Guzman, told me. “That’s all we want.”

Somali Communities Are Building Collective Power

February 5, 2026 Jamila Osman, Truthout. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Mutual Aid, Somalians

Winter in Minnesota is notoriously harsh, lasting until mid-spring and marked by below-freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and intense winds. It is a common misconception that survival requires either hibernation or migration, but blue jays roost communally to conserve warmth through the cold nights, and white-tailed deer congregate in wintering yards, finding safety in numbers. Surviving in hostile climates, whether environmental or political, is impossible in isolation. This is a lesson that Minnesota’s Somali community knows well.

ACLU Calls On UN To Investigate Human Rights Violations In Minnesota

February 5, 2026 ACLU of Minnesota. Resist! Human Rights, ICE, Minnesota, State Repression, United Nations

Washington, DC — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Minnesota sent an urgent submission late last night to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), requesting the committee to use its early warning and urgent action procedure in response to the human rights crisis following the Trump administration's deployment of federal forces in Minneapolis and the St. Paul metropolitan area. The submission details how federal agents have ignored basic human rights in their enforcement activity against Minnesotans, especially targeting Somali and Latino communities.

The Minnesota Target Workers Who Walked Out Against ICE

February 5, 2026 Sarah Lazare, American Prospect. Resist! Employee Activism, General Strike, ICE, Minnesota, Target

Rob doesn’t want anyone else to experience what his co-workers at the Target store in the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield went through. On January 8, federal immigration agents violently tackled and detained two Target workers during their shift. Rob was on the clock that day, and while he did not see the abductions, he did witness the aftermath. “We had a lot of people who were scared,” says Rob, who is using a pseudonym to protect him from retaliation. “A lot of people were crying at the time. It became very hectic.”

Social Media Working To Protect ICE Clampdown In Minneapolis

February 1, 2026 Ari Paul, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Resist! Freedom of Speech, ICE, Media, Meta, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Propaganda, Social Media, Tiktok, Twitter, X

There was a time, not terribly long ago, when the right claimed that the big social media companies weren’t just skewed to the left in terms of moderation, but that they were actually acting in the direct interests of the Democratic administration (House Judiciary Committee, 5/1/24). When right-wing billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter, eventually rebranding it as X, the right believed that he’d show the world that the popular site was a tool of the Democratic agenda (New Yorker, 1/11/23). The move increased Musk’s profile as a conservative crusader against social progress and economic populism before his brief stint as President Donald Trump’s federal jobs hatchet man in 2025 (Roosevelt Institute, 5/29/25).

How To Spread The General Strike Beyond The Twin Cities

January 31, 2026 Stephanie Luce, Labor Notes. Strategize! General Strike, ICE, Minnesota, Unions

On January 23, Minnesota unions and community organizations seized the public imagination with “a Day of Truth and Freedom,” an economic blackout that drew perhaps 100,000 marchers to downtown Minneapolis. The Twin Cities have been under siege from federal agents since December. Minnesotans have formed dense networks from the bottom up to patrol neighborhoods, feed the hungry, and train everyday people to scout for rampaging Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents hunting for their immigrant and citizen neighbors. They upped the ante by organizing a general strike with political demands to oust ICE out of their state, deny it any additional federal funding, and hold legally accountable the officer who killed Renee Good.

Labor’s Role In Minnesota’s ICE Resistance

January 30, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minnesota, Unions

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol began “Operation Metro Surge” targeting the Twin Cities nearly two months ago. Since then, they have taken the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti while terrorizing Minnesota’s immigrant communities. The massive deployment of immigration officers to Minneapolis and Saint Paul has been met with an incredible response from the community. Neighbors have come together to develop complex rapid response networks to track ICE and notify vulnerable people, keep immigrant families fed and protected with strong mutual aid networks, and make their opposition to what amounts to a full-scale federal invasion clearly visible.

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