On Thursday, more than 100 clergy members from around Minnesota held a press conference outside Target’s Downtown Minneapolis store, calling for the company to stand with “their community and the state they call home by joining Minnesotans in demanding that the DHS end its surge terrorizing families, neighborhoods, and businesses.”
Afterwards, clergy members walked to Target’s corporate headquarters, also in Downtown Minneapolis, and began a sit-in inside the lobby, peacefully asking for a meeting with CEO Brian Cornell.
The faith leaders, some of whom came to Minneapolis from smaller towns around the state, say they are asking Target to “publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE ‘surge’ and for ICE to leave the state,” to “affirm Target stores as 4th Amendment workplaces,” and to publicly call for Congress to stop funding ICE, per a press release from organizers.
“Target must be a corporate leader in ensuring that this hellfire does not continue to rain on this state or anyone else,” JaNaé Bates Imari, Auxiliary Minister at Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church in St. Paul, said during the press conference…