I picked up some conchas and bread at Panaderia San Miguel located on East Lake Street.

Minneapolis recently updated its separation ordinance which prohibits us from participating in federal immigration enforcement activities. Read more at https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/december/fed-activity-updates-resources Learn more about what’s the same and what’s new ⬇

Thank you Council Member Chavez.

Neighbors looking out for neighbors— including this message from our City Council member

Community observers are keeping community safe. It’s not a crime to legally observe the abuses and inhumane tactics committed by ICE. The real crimes are being committed by the federal government, which are tearing families apart. In addition to their rampant racial profiling and discrimination. 1/

Dear community, I want to acknowledge what has been a difficult and heavy month that our city has endured. The presence of Federal Agents seperating families is creating a devastating impact on our immigrant communities.

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 This year feels different. My heart is with all the families who are living in fear, who have been torn apart, and have to celebrate differently. One day things will be better. 1/

Dear neighbor, We are seeing an escalation of ICE activity in our neighborhoods and across Minnesota. Please take precautions and be safe. Continue to help your neighbors with rides, food, patrolling, and more. 1/

⚡Today⚡As ICE activity continues ramping up, more & more people are ready to hit the streets with their neighbors to keep our community safe. Whether you've been at it since 12/1 or just beginning, join us TODAY for an ICE Watch Welcome. Register defend612.com & tell your friends. See you out there✨

It’s Day 20 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities. Today, as rumors continue to swirl about a major ICE surge in the Twin Cities, we are reminded of the power of community. Keep your whistle with you, and be ready to step up at any time. We know that ICE flees at the first sign of resistance.

Say no to Waymo.

Thank you to community for coming out to the rally and march on Lake Street. You came out strong for so many immigrants who could only watch it from home/online. 💔 Please continue to support your neighbors. Immigrant-owned businesses received a ton of support today. Keep supporting them. ❤️

Defend the 612 put in a first order of 612 Community Vests for Neighborhood Patrols and Rapid Responders! Learn more & donate: defend612.com/donate

​Super windy and cold out there - but my little guy flew like a champ!

The community is out strong on Lake Street in support of getting ICE out of Minnesota. Strong solidarity between our Latino, East-African, and Immigrant communities. ❤️ With @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social

I’m excited to see neighbors tomorrow at the ICE out of MN march and rally on Lake and Bloomington (11:30AM). I recommend arriving early so you can support small businesses on Lake Street. After the rally ends support even more businesses. Spread the word. ❤️

The attacks and hate directed at our trans neighbors is horrific. I sent a letter to our Minnesota U.S. Senators regarding the rights of our trans neighbors. 1/

“They honored the 115 people across Minnesota who died this year while homeless, along with 86 others who were previously homeless and 18 advocates who supported them.” Sadly, Mayor Frey thinks it’s controversial to provide basic public health services to unhoused people.

I ran for office to uplift working people and marginalized communities who for too long have been left behind. Unfortunately, my time in office has also been spent on dealing with hate, racism, homophobia, death threats, violence, and gun threats. 1/ www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

jason chavez is going public about a man who has been harassing and threatening him for years after emily koski shared her story about finally getting a restraining order against her stalker. both felt a lack of support from the city www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Community is literally keeping community safe. Thank you all everyone who is a part of this work meant to keep our immigrant community safe. I see the way you show up, defend, and respond in the midst of this federal occupation of our city.

In this ongoing occupation of Minneapolis, Defend the 612 is committed to uplifting and supporting city-wide coordination between autonomous neighborhood response groups that are rising up to resist the abductions, kidnapping and deportation of our neighbors. (1/4) Learn more at defend612.com

The continued attacks on our trans neighbors 🏳️‍⚧️ is disheartening and despicable. Our trans community doesn’t deserves this hate. 💔

I love you Powderhorn/ Ward 9 ❤️

There is no room for bigotry on our turf.

Yesterday, Frey said he “will continue to work collaboratively with the Council” and that “voters were clear in their call for a collaborative approach from City Hall.” Waiting until Council couldn’t vote to override his humane encampment ordinance veto was cowardly and cruel to unhoused people.

The City Council scheduled an override session yesterday to consider the Mayor’s vetoes. Instead, Mayor Frey waited until there were no more council meetings to prohibit an overturn of the humane encampment response ordinance (even though he said he would veto it last week). 1/

I'm headed out to the corridor tonight for my birthday. It's been... hard to feel like celebrating this year. But this I can do. I'm craving some locoro pupusas and a mandarin Jarritos. Maybe I'll go wild and get an horchata.

Immigrant businesses in my neighborhood are knock-only now. ICE has turned grocery stores into speakeasys. Spending at these businesses both puts money into the hands of neighbors that need it AND takes money from oligarchs who would otherwise pocket the cash. 🚫Amazon et al.

MPD assisted ICE with escorting their vehicles. One of the vehicles had a pregnant woman detained. The woman was forced out of the vehicle and was never shown a judicial warrant. MPD ENABLED A KIDNAPPING when they assisted ICE on 12/15 at 29th and Pillsbury.

MPD said in a statement that they responded to an “officer needs help” call, but confirmed that no one was being assaulted & that no life-safety conditions warranted further officer involvement. Why did MPD assist in kidnapping our neighbors with controlling the space? This was just one example.

This holiday season, we ask you to take action. Shop at immigrant-owned businesses in Minneapolis: buy groceries, share a meal, purchase gifts, and spend time in our vibrant commercial corridors. Your presence matters. Your support matters. 1/

Resource Connect is every Tuesday at MIWRC from 9-3. Meals, community, connection, care. Orgs & grassroots groups typically onsite include LEAD, COPE, AVIVO, Sobriety Warriors, Hennepin Cty Streets to Housing, NACC. Stop by! Mobile Medical Unit is onsite 12/16! Wound care, check ups, & screenings.

“MPD immediately responded and confirmed there was no one being assaulted and no life-safety conditions that warranted further involvement,” Parten said.” Then why did you assist & create a pathway for ICE to kidnap our neighbors? I saw it with my own eyes and so did the community.

Disheartening to see federal agents take two neighbors on 29th & Pillsbury. Chemical irritants were used on observers by them. MPD showed up on scene, created a pathway for these federal agents to kidnap our neighbors, and assisted with controlling the space. Disappointing and heartbreaking.

Dear neighbor, We’re seeing increased immigration enforcement impacting Latino families in our neighborhoods, South Minneapolis, Phillips and Lake Street. Unfortunately, ICE extra busy today. 1/

ICE is here. They’re invading our state, kidnapping our neighbors, and brutalizing Minnesotans. We need our leaders to lead, through words AND action. Tim Walz, where are you? The time has come to step up or step aside. They’re already escalating - what are you afraid of? @governorwalz.mn.gov

I’m thinking about our unhoused neighbors who have been facing below freezing temperatures. It’s a fact that there are barely enough shelters available for our neighbors who continue to be kicked out from block to block. They have also been turned away from a lack of shelter capacity. 1/

PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help. @supplydepotmpls 💕💸

Here is the GoFundMe for Marco and Geovanny who were forced to brace below freezing temperature by ICE. They need help with funding for lawyers, food, and medical bills. Please share. gofund.me/443327b8d

Dear neighbor, This morning, ICE surrounded a construction site with Latino workers in this dangerously cold weather. One worker had to leave in an ambulance because they were forced to stay on the roof of the construction site as ICE attempted to kidnap them. 1/

Minneapolis City Council unanimously votes for law more clearly separating city resources from federal activities. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

To borrow a phrase from my boss, so much of what’s going on in our city is vile, racist, and disgusting. But I’m grateful to be a part of this office and getting to see just how deeply CM Chavez cares about our communities and how much work he puts in to move us in the right direction.

When Frey says that he's going to veto the humane encampment response ordinance while maintaining his administration's encampment policies, that is him telling us that he's okay with this sort of thing. Same goes for the CMs that voted against the ordinance.

Minneapolis Council Member Jason Chavez's remarks on passage of a strengthened separation ordinance prohibiting city employees from enforcing federal immigration laws: "Since Dec 1 ICE agents have arrested more than 400 people in the Twin Cities, a majority of them with no criminal convictions."

Mayor Frey says he is already planning to veto this. A bare minimum policy. This is in addition to his refusal to implement emergency housing vouchers & the expansion of stable homes stable schools earlier this year. There’s no plan and no will to implement solutions that are funded.

The Minneapolis City Council approved new homeless encampment policies that will provide toilets, collect trash and allow more time before forcing out inhabitants, among other changes.

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to strengthen the city’s separation ordinance, which prohibits city workers from helping enforce federal immigration laws.

I am excited to announce that the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved the strengthened separation ordinance, reiterating the City’s commitment to immigrant justice and authored by my office, Council Member @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and Council Vice-President @aishaforward10.com. 1/

The final vote of the term for City Council was a resolution against using less lethal weapons for crowd control and supporting discipline in the police contract or discipline matrix if police officers violate the separation ordinance. Palmisano, Jenkins, & Vetaw voted no (Rainville was absent)