Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns & Sarah Lazare
“First, she started checking for suspicious cars each day before leaving the house for work. Then, she began skipping work whenever she saw Facebook posts about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents nearby. By the end of December, she wasn’t working at all. And since the first week of January, Anain, who declined to use her last name, has barely left the home she shares with her spouse and two young daughters in South Minneapolis, the neighborhood where she’s lived for more than 20 years. To pay their rent, Anain and her spouse have had to dip into their savings. With neither of them working, ’we don’t know how long we’ll be able to keep going,’ she says in Spanish. For immigrant families like Anain’s, the crisis in Minnesota is far from over.” (02/19/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-minnesota-rent-strike-twin-cities-labor-unions