A plea to whatever city gets invaded by ICE next: study what we’ve done in Minnesota, just like how we studied lessons from L. A. and Chicago. For all the harm ICE did, it would have been worse without observation, patrolling, mutual aide, protesting, and more. Alex Pretti and Rene Good weren’t the only victims: ICE splits up families, forces immigrant communities into hiding which robs them of education and income, rapes those in detention, sends asylum seekers back to places where they’ll be killed, and inflicts so many other kinds of terror. Anything to mitigate that torture is worth it. So if they come to your community, find out what you can do and do it.











