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Minnesota gears up for anti-immigration enforcement protest and they'll be doing it in brutally cold conditions

Federal officers have surged in the area for weeks and repeatedly squared off with community activists

By Giovanna Dell'Orto,

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Jan 23, 2026

A vast network of labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy has been urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and stores Friday to protest against immigration enforcement in the state.

“We really, really want I.C.E. to leave Minnesota, and they’re not going to leave Minnesota unless there’s a ton of pressure on them,” said Kate Havelin of Indivisible Twin Cities, one of the more than 100 groups that is mobilizing. “They shouldn’t be roaming any streets in our country just the way they are now.”

And that includes faith Leaders from around the nation that have come to town to protest.

Over 650 clergy and faith leaders from across the United States have arrived in the Twin Cities, answering what they call an urgent call to stand in solidarity against a "lawless" surge in federal immigration enforcement.

"Bravery doesn't look the same for everyone," says Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde. "Some march, some accompany, some give, some pray or speak. All of it matters now. To help families stay fed, children feel safe, and our constitutional rights protected."

Representing a broad interfaith coalition - including the Lutheran, Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim traditions - these leaders say they are mobilizing in response to an outpouring of concerns from thousands of faith leaders across denominations and regions about ice‘s presence in the Twin Cities.

The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have seen daily protests since Renee Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation on Jan. 7. Federal law enforcement officers have surged in the area for weeks and have repeatedly squared off with community members and activists who track their movements online and in streets.

On Thursday, a prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Sunday service at a Minnesota church were arrested.

Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis to meet with ICE officials. He said repeatedly that he believed the fraught situation in Minneapolis would improve upon better cooperation from state and local officials, and he encouraged protests to remain peaceful.

Friday’s mobilization was planned as the largest coordinated protest action to date, including a march in downtown Minneapolis despite dangerously cold temperatures. WCCO-TV Chief Meteorologist Chris Shaffer says Friday's high in the Twin Cities will be 9 below, and wind chills will make it feel 30 to 40 below. In those temps, exposed skin risk frostbite in just 10 minutes.

While organizations have asked participants to prepare for the cold, Havelin compared the presence of immigration enforcement to just such winter weather warnings.

“Minnesotans understand that when we’re in a snow emergency … we all have to respond and it makes us do things differently,” she said. “And what’s happening with ICE in our community, in our state, means that we can’t respond as business as usual.”

More than a hundred small businesses in the Twin Cities, largely coffee shops and restaurants, said they would close in solidarity or donate part of their profits, organizers said.

Ethnic businesses especially have lost sales during enforcement surges as both workers and customers stay away fearing they would be detained.

But some are deciding to close anyway, preferring to take a stance in solidarity rather than the “unscheduled interruption” of having agents apprehend staff, said Luis Argueta of Unidos MN, a civil rights group.

Many schools were planning to be closed for a variety of reasons. The University of Minnesota, which has about 50,000 students enrolled, said there would be no in-person classes because of the extreme cold warning, and the St. Paul public school district said there would no classes for the same reason. Minneapolis Public Schools were also scheduled to be closed Friday “for a teacher record keeping day.”

Clergy planned to join the march as well as hold prayer services and fasting, according to a delegation of representatives of faith traditions ranging from Buddhist to Jewish, Lutheran to Muslim.

Bishop Dwayne Royster, leader of the progressive organization Faith in Action, arrived in Minnesota on Wednesday from Washington, D.C.

“We want ICE out of Minnesota,” he said. “We want them out of all the cities around the country where they’re exercising extreme overreach.”

Royster said at least 50 of his network’s faith-based organizers from around the U.S. were joining in the protest.

About 10 faith leaders were planning to travel to Minnesota from Los Angeles while others from the same group planned a solidarity rally in California, said one of the organizers there.

“It was a very harrowing experience,” said the Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez of the large enforcement operation in Los Angeles last year. “We believe God is on the side of migrants.”

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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