Tensions over the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are rising in the Twin Cities suburbs, where residents are packing City Council meetings to air their frustrations and ask local leaders for help.
Public comment sessions at city meetings are stretching for hours as business owners, residents and elected officials share their fears and report what they are seeing – in person and online, with several ICE confrontations in the suburbs having gone viral.
Two Richfield Target employees were detained by the U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 8 in the store’s entryway, an interaction caught on a widely shared video. A Woodbury real estate agent’s story of being detained for nearly 10 hours after recording an ICE action reached thousands when he shared it online. And ICE detained a U.S. citizen, 20-year-old Jose Roberto Ramirez, at the Robbinsdale Hy-Vee, in an encounter livestreamed on Facebook…