Resources for ICE Response

Community Development Financial Institutions are employers, as well as working with many small businesses and organizations as clients. These resources are for employers and people working with businesses.

• A Guide for Employers: What to Do if Immigration Comes to your Workplace – National Immigration Law Center. General guidance, with resources available in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Thai
• Monarca – Training for business owners on 4th Amendment protections agains illegal search and seizures
• What if ICE is at My Workplace? – Resource from the American Civil Liberties Union
• Solidarity signs/Know Your Rights signs – Door signs from the Immigrant Legal Rights Center
• Davis Law Office – Small business legal support

Individuals have rights regarding immigration and citizenship, and these resources help explain those rights and provide other connections to resources.

• Know Your Rights with ICE – Minnesota Attorney General document on individual rights
• Monarca – Provides training for observing ICE and a hotline for ICE activity – 612-441-2881
• National Lawyers Guild Minnesota – Legal resources and observers, as well as a legal hotline – 612-444-2654
• City of Minneapolis – Know Your Rights hub
• Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee – Anti-deportation and immigration resources
• Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota – Immigration law support and resources

Financial and other resources for individuals impacted by ICE activity.

• Community Aid Network MN – Mutual support contributions and distribution based in Minneapolis
• Immigrant Rapid Response Fund – Hosted at the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, rapid response funds to mobilize and organize communities to support and protect immigrants
• Stand With Minnesota – Causes to donate to in Minnesota to help our communities defend themselves from ICE
• Minneapolis Mutual Aid Linktree – Mutual aid, food distribution, and other resources

The current actions and attacks on immigrant communities are anti-business, anti-Main Street, and anti-growth. Targeting communities that have high levels of entrepreneurship, that start new businesses and offer gainful employment is a losing strategy for America.

• Study shows Operation Metro Surge costs taxpayers $18 million a week – KARE11 – 1/23/2026

• ‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis – Wired – 1/21/2026

• How Twin Cities restaurants are changing amid ICE surge: ‘We are pretty much back to COVID’ – Star Tribune – 1/19/2026

• Two hotels in Downtown St. Paul temporarily closing for safety concerns – Pioneer Press, 1/17/2026
• Events quietly canceled around the Twin Cities with some citing ICE protests – Pioneer Press, 1/17/2026
• How four small businesses are speaking out about ICE – Pioneer Press, 1/16/2026
• What to do when ICE targets your restaurant – Mpls St Paul Magazine – 1/6/2026
• “This is not what I fought for” – Sky News – 1/16/2026
• A growing number of Minnesota restaurants are closing or adjusting their hours due to employee fears of coming to work – Morgan Wolfe & Jason DeRuscha – 1/16/2026
• How a Lake Street small business is navigating ICE’s presence – Minnesota Public Radio – 1/16/2026
• Why are business leaders silent on the destructive workforce effects of this ICE operation? – Pioneer Press – 1/15/2026
• Minnesota business owners feeling the effects of ICE enforcement actions – Minnesota Public Radio – 1/15/2026

• Minnesota ICE raids leave immigrant workers home, businesses struggling – Sahan Journal – 1/15/2026

• Agriculture officials, Minnesota farmers on ICE activity in state – ABC 6 News – KAAL TV – 1/14/2026

• Minnesota’s corporate silence on ICE surge – Minnesota Public Radio – 1/14/2026

• With ICE surge spreading across state, rumors and anxiety grow in greater Minnesota – Star Tribune – 1/14/2026

• Minnesota’s Business Community Targeted by ICE – Twin Cities Business Magazine – 1/13/2026

• Immigrant corridors in both Minneapolis and St. Paul nearly shut down by intensifying ICE actions – Star Tribune – 1/13/2026

• Publisher’s note: Fear instigated by ICE activities a business problem – Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal – 1/13/2026

• Owners close Mexican restaurants in Fergus Falls and Detroit Lakes as ICE arrives – KVRR – 1/12/2026