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As a severe blizzard swept across the state this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intensified enforcement actions in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, sparking widespread outrage, community mobilization, and calls for federal intervention. The operations which included the wrongful detention of two U.S. citizens have left immigrant communities shaken and local officials facing mounting pressure for transparency.

Community members, organizers, journalists, and residents are demanding accountability following an ICE raid on Saint Paul’s East Side on November 25 that left neighbors terrorized and resulted in injury to peaceful observers and members of the press after Saint Paul Police deployed tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and pepper ball munitions.

Community groups in Minneapolis are calling out Target after reports that ICE used the Lake Street Target parking lot to stage an operation threatening to separate families. Unidos MN, Racial Justice Network, CAIR-MN, and BLM Minnesota are demanding Target ban ICE from using any of its properties for enforcement or surveillance.

The Collective Sum, created by the Minnesota Black Collective Foundation, is a multiday gathering designed to strengthen community, nurture Black leadership, and build collective strategy in a moment when support for racial equity initiatives is being rolled back across the country.

Leaders of the national Target boycott gathered outside the retailer’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters Thursday to demand renewed public participation in their nearly year-long campaign. Leaders of the national Target boycott say the this holiday season marks the boycott’s most decisive moment yet and is an opportunity to underscore consumer anger over Target’s rollback of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments and its political alignment with the Trump administ

Update: At the November 18 Eagan City Council meeting, community members delivered an urgent demand: find your humanity and remove the officers involved in the death of Kingsley Bimpong. Activists called for an independent investigation, a review of medical response protocols, and better training. Above all, they demanded accountability, starting with firing the officers whose actions and inactions left Kingsley dying on a cold jail floor when he should have been in a hospit