The Department of Homeland Security claims its ICE operation in the Twin Cities is winding down. But hundreds of ICE agents have continued patrolling communities, armed with guns and chemical weapons that they’ve used on protesters and bystanders alike.
The people of the Twin Cities have continued to resist, with whistles, protests and informal neighborhood networks. These groups have organized to aid their most vulnerable neighbors who fear persecution by federal agents.
“[ICE presence in Minneapolis] produced this collective outrage that got a lot of people who wouldn’t ordinarily consider themselves protestors or activists off the sidelines and into the streets,” says journalist Dan Simmons, who wrote about the immigration crackdown in a recent piece for The New Republic…