In response to the terrifying intensification of ICE over the past year, both in their expanded presence and violence in cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles, communities are mobilizing to protect each other, publicly denounce ICE, and form campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE to weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power.
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 has been a nightmare for immigrants and for the country. The administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda brought forth an onslaught of cruel, violent policies intended to sow fear, suppress dissent, and vilify immigrants. Taking stock of all of Trump’s actions on immigration in 2025 is nearly impossible. This is, of course, by design.
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This story originally appeared in Workday Magazine on Jan. 20, 2026. It is shared here with permission.
On Jan 18, Twin Cities postal workers with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9 gathered at the post office on Lake Street in South Minneapolis to demand ICE discontinue its use of postal property to stage activity and demand that ICE leave Minnesota. The crowd of over 200 union members and allies marched down Lake Street to the block where Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathon Ross a few weeks before.
Speakers at the rally showed their support for the upcoming January 23 shutdown planned across Minnesota. Dozens of other Minnesota unions and workers centers have joined the call for a work-stoppage on Friday, despite contracts with no-strike clauses.
Emmet Bongaarts, a postal worker and NALC Branch 9 member said postal workers have been first-hand witnesses and responders to ICE’s “reign of terror” across Minnesota in recent weeks. Bongaart’s route is through the Central neighborhood in South Minneapolis, close to where Renee Good was killed. “People can’t leave their homes, businesses lock their doors,” he said of the environment of fear that ICE has created.
Chris Pennock, a postal worker and vice president of NALC Branch 9, said that postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve. “People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package, no one deserves to be treated this way.” Pennock continued, “Letter carriers stand with immigrants, not ICE.”
The marchers chanted, “Protect our routes, get ICE out,” in support of letter carriers and postal workers organizing to end
Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. Patty O’Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle, said agents “broke our two front windows and dragged us out,” then taunted her in custody.
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Officials in both Texas and Minnesota are calling for accountability and a full investigation into conditions at Camp East Montana, the sprawling detention complex at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, following the third reported death at the facility in less than two months. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis, where ICE has been…
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Donald Trump rode to reelection with racist attacks on immigrants and refugees and promising mass deportations. The first year of his second term was filled with heartbreak, trauma, and fear as his administration escalated its assault on immigrant communities: separating families, occupying cities, targeting workers, and expanding deportations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using…
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