and we know they’ll be doing it for us when it’s our turn! This is a partial copy of their page.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
Minnesota is under occupation by federal agents from ICE and CBP, and they need your help.
Not just Minneapolis, and not just people protesting. Across Minnesota, ICE continues to stop, harass, and detain people regardless of their citizenship status. Normal life in Minnesota has been interrupted, as schools have been forced to close or go virtual, as people live in fear of leaving their homes or going to work.
Minnesotans are organized and activated to respond to this violence. But they need our help.
This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation. Everything is vetted, with the exception of individual GoFundMes (not everyone is in our networks, and we don’t want to pick and choose who is worthy of help.)
If you don’t have resources to give, please amplify what you are hearing and seeing about Minnesota, across social media, but also to your networks, friends, and family offline.
Read our testimonies and know what life is like in Minnesota right now.
Overwhelmed by the amount of listings here? Donate to the Immigrant Law Center of MN, who is providing assistance to hundreds of people with families detained by ICE, or the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, a fund assembled by a coalition of Twin Cities Foundations committed to getting assistance out the door as quickly as possible.
Mutual Aid & Materials Purchasing
These funds are administered by neighbors helping their neighbors, not large organizations. This is one of the most direct ways to help and to get cash and resources into people’s hands quickly.
Rent Relief Funds
Mutual Aid Funds
Provide Food Support
Crowdfunding Campaigns
We are only including campaigns which have not met their goals. To get a campaign added please email contact@standupforminnesota.com
For Individuals
Funds for Schools & Students
Funds for Communities
And there is so much more on the page. Please thoughtfully consider what you can do, including simply telling people about this when it comes up (or when you bring it up, maybe?) And thank you!
Scottie's Playtime 
Thank you, ali. The two immigrant support organizations were also vetted by Indivisible. (I had those links in an earlier post.)
The testimonies are heartwrenching—especially the one in which the writer asks people to come there. I wish I could—and wonder if I’d have the courage to stare down these monsters, who are being paid by us!
And how do we prepare ourselves for the growing possibility that it will happen in our communities?
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Well, when I say that, I just want to keep it front and center that federal enforcement is not unlikely in our own areas. While I think we should still stick with the various resistance activism, if we haven’t already been doing this, then we need to get ourselves identified as a helper in our localities. That could cut in to larger reaching activism, because a person has only so much energy for this stuff. To me, I think we’re at least at a point that we need to think about local need, and how we can help with it. It’s another way to build local unity, from where the strength we see in Minnesota, comes.
IMO.
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And as I was getting things out for a snack, I realized what I should have written instead of that is that we should get in touch with our local governing bodies, find out their plan is or encourage them to come up with one, and ask how we can jump in and help. That’s what will really do the most good, it seems, if these events affect our local areas.
For instance, enforcement is in Wichita (which happens even in normal times,) and the schools have put out electronic and mailed reminders for everyone to review and update their students’s instructions should something come up. And they’re broadcasting that message on radio and TV news, locally.
In Jon Lovitz’s voice, “yeah, that’s the ticket. Never mind that other stuff!”
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And excellent thing I just saw was a photo of Abigail Spanberger being sworn in, along with reporting that she has vetoed/rescinded former Virginia EO 47, cutting off Virginia’s allowing local law enforcement to act as federal immigration enforcers. So, no doubt there will soon be localities in VA who are going to see some of this, presuming VA has a heavy immigrant presence.
We should learn about our own areas in regard to that. I’m aware that county law enforcement in KS has assisted ICE, and likely will continue as needed. That’s been in place for years.
Of course how to help feed people, and care for their families and pets; direct them to legal help they may need, or medical. And on, and on; there’s something for everyone!
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