#minneapolis

#minneapolis

Democrats in the US Senate have blocked a funding package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid ongoing fury over the Trump administration's crackdown and the deaths of two people in Minneapolis. Thursday's vote means that the department is almost certain to shut down at midnight on Friday evening, affecting a range of services yet largely leaving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) the target of Democrats' ire unaffected because it is already the recipient of lavish federal funding.

In the past weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps her death would bring about change in our country, and it has not.

I'm donating our merch take in Minneapolis ($204K) to Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committee and Immigrant Defense Network.

We've had political assassinations. We had a multi-fatality school shooting, and now the largest immigration crackdown in American history has all happened in Minneapolis in the last eight months,

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security surged 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minnesota - a state more than a thousand miles from the southern border that's not known for having a sizable population of immigrants in the U.S. illegally - calling it the largest such operation ever. Many people have wondered: Why Minnesota? Vice President JD Vance, who visited Minneapolis on Jan. 22 to defend federal immigration enforcement, gave a misleading answer.

I'm heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis, and my prayers and deepest sympathies are with the families, with the communities, and with everyone that's been affected. This is a time for deescalation. I believe America is strongest when we live up to our highest ideals, when we treat everyone with dignity and respect no matter who they are or where they're from, and when we embrace our shared humanity.