US EditionMinnesota Faith Leaders, Unions Call for Statewide Work Strike Friday over ICE Enforcement
Over 80,000 union members and 100+ small businesses plan to strike and close in protest of ICE enforcement after fatal shooting and detentions, organizers said.
- Daily protests have occurred in Minneapolis and St. Paul since Renee Good was killed by an ICE officer on January 7, 2026.
- Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis and urged cooperation among officials while encouraging peaceful protests.
- More than a hundred small businesses in the Twin Cities plan to close or donate part of their profits in solidarity with the protest against ICE enforcement.
- Clergy from various faith traditions, including Bishop Dwayne Royster, are joining the march and holding prayer services.
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Minnesotans turn out in the frigid cold to protest Trump’s immigration crackdown
Large crowds flooded downtown Minneapolis Friday afternoon, despite subzero temperatures, as part of a march and rally to protest the largest and most aggressive immigration enforcement operation brought by the federal government so far.In coordination with the protests, businesses across Minnesota – restaurants, museums, book stores, coffee shops – also shut their doors for the day. Labor unions, faith leaders and community activists organized …
Waves of Minneapolis residents filled the city's frigid blocks and packed the Timberwolves' NBA arena on Friday to demand that ICE leave their neighborhoods, even as the immigration official orchestrating the crackdown vowed that arrests would not decrease. The demonstrations spread virtually across the city on Friday. Storm-stricken Minnesotans braved sub-zero temperatures for a downtown march, an airport protest, an arena rally, and an "econom…
Thousands of people protest and strike in Minnesota against U.S. immigration operations, hundreds of businesses remain closed. The U.S. government rejects criticism.
Under the slogan »Day of Truth and Freedom«, thousands of people in Minnesota protest against the ICE immigration agency with demonstrations, strikes and closed shops. The police arrested several protesters.
Hundreds of companies throughout the American state of Minnesota closed their doors and many people suspended their daily activities this Saturday as part of a general strike against the restrictive immigration policies of the government of Donald Trump. With the increase in tensions and the spread of fear of arrest by U.S. Immigration Service agents (ICE) in the state, vendors, trade unions and residents said they would participate in an econom…
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