ICE has been terrorizing Minneapolis for weeks with abductions, carjackings, racial profiling, murder, and death threats. They are harassing our Latinx, Somali, and Native communities and their allies, and affecting everyone in the metro. They are targeting schools and hospitals, disrupting education and cutting off access to health care. Our most vulnerable neighbors are afraid to leave their homes to buy groceries or go to work. And many of the stores and employers they would go to are closed anyway because of ICE raids.

I feel proud of my city and its residents for our highly organized and fiercely neighborly response. Thousands of Minneapolitans are out on the streets day and night following, monitoring, and harassing ICE right back, documenting abductions and abuses, and stopping some, too.

Behind the scenes, others are keeping victims' abandoned cars from being impounded, comforting the pets and children they have left behind, buying and delivering groceries, going to landlords and stores to pay rent and other bills, and fundraising to cover the costs associated with all of those things.

That support work is where I have found my role, and giving and donating money to cover groceries, rent, and other basic needs is where I'm asking you to find yours.

A group of neighbors and I are organizing to support a network of 20 families outside our immediate neighborhood. Your donations help keep them fed and in their homes so that they can return to their daily lives once this crisis is past.