Despite the precarious nature of operating a restaurant or bar, many places understand the importance of standing with Minnesota and fighting against ICE
A general strike is scheduled to take place in communities across the U.S. on Friday, January 30, prompting the closures of numerous restaurants, bars, and other businesses across the Bay Area. The action comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conduct violent raids and perpetrate deadly clashes with legal observers and protestors in Minnesota. Strikers in the Bay Area will join demonstrators in cities across the U.S., rallying against the widespread violence with a singular message: ICE, get the hell out.
Immigration and Border Patrol agents have conducted actions under all recent presidential administrations. However, those powers expanded under President Donald Trump in his second term, and with it, occupations of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. In recent weeks, horrifying images and stories have poured out of Minneapolis and St. Paul as Homeland Security initiated a massive crackdown on Twin Cities — traumatizing raids, wrongful detainments, injuries, threats, and violence. Multiple people have died in ICE custody. ICE and Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on January 24 and Renee Nicole Good on January 7 in Minneapolis; Silverio Villegas González on September 12 in Chicago; Isaias Sanchez Barboza in Texas on December 11; Keith Porter in Los Angeles on December 31…