Wisconsin take note: Here’s how Minneapolis parents prepared for ICE

By: Ruth Conniff

Outlets: Wisconsin Examiner

Published: February 12, 2026

Words: 1,117

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Before Operation Metro Surge sent thousands of armed federal agents into Minneapolis, terrorizing families and spreading chaos and violence in formerly peaceful residential neighborhoods, local parent organizations were already setting up networks to provide mutual aid and safely transport children of immigrants to and from school.

“My school group of friends formed our first network of communication in October, after we saw what had happened in Chicago,” the mother of an elementary school student in …

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