Advocate groups are calling out Minneapolis-based Target to step up and speak out against immigration enforcement activities happening in their backyard, and in some cases in their stores.
The activists in the Twin Cities are feeling that Target is turning a blind eye to what's occurring, and calling them out for it.
Ricardo Perez Gonzales with the Richfield Community Safety Network.
"You know what I haven't seen or I haven't heard? Target speak up against the horrific kidnapping of two Latino, citizen staff members right here behind us at the Ridgefield Target," Gonzales said.
It was over two weeks ago that two Target workers were forcibly detained, something Minnesota State Representative Michael Howard (DFL) couldn't believe at the time.
"The sentence that Federal agents arrested workers, U.S. citizens at their place of work at Target, it's just not something I would think I'd be saying in 2026 in the United States of America," Howard explained to WCCO's Adam Carter. "But that's where we are."
This upcoming Saturday, these advocate groups are calling upon the community to take a seat, says Ulla Nilson of Unidos Minnesota.
"We are calling on community members to stage peaceful sit-ins in Target stores nationwide, demanding that Target publicly call for an immediate end to the ice surge in Minnesota," she says.
Nilon also is making the claim Target collaborated with ICE to stage operations in their parking lots.
"Target relies on immigrant labor from the workers in their stores to the shift workers that deliver groceries to the people that grow and process our food," Nilson adds. "Yet Target has failed to speak out against the violent abductions of workers, nor to call for immigration reform."
Meanwhile, other local activists are gearing up for what they call a second massive shutdown in Minneapolis on Friday.
It's all set to take place at 2:00 p.m. at the Government Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, with organizers aiming to surpass the scale of the January 23 demonstration that drew an estimated 100,000 participants.
Organizer and Executive Director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, Jaylani Hussein, says Minnesota is leading the nation at this moment.
"We did not choose this moment, but this moment chose us," says Hussein. "We are standing up for our neighbors and by doing so we are showing the rest of the country how to defeat ICE."
Supporters say that this day of action isn't just a protest against ICE, but a call to abolish ICE nationwide in the wake of the deaths of community members Renee Good and Alex Pretti.