Minnesota is under occupation by federal agents from ICE and CBP, and we need your support.

Across Minnesota, ICE continues to stop, harass, and detain people regardless of their citizenship status. Normal life in Minnesota has been interrupted, as schools have been forced to close or go virtual, as people live in fear of leaving their homes or going to work. Minnesotans are organized and activated to respond to this violence. But they need our help.
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This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation. Everything is vetted, with the exception of individual GoFundMes (not everyone is in our networks, and we don’t want to pick and choose who is worthy of help.)
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If you don’t have resources to give, please amplify what you are hearing and seeing about Minnesota, across social media, but also to your networks, friends, and family offline.
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Read our testimonies and know what life is like in Minnesota right now.
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Overwhelmed by the amount of listings here? Donate to the Immigrant Law Center of MN, who is providing assistance to hundreds of people with families detained by ICE, or the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, a fund assembled by a coalition of Twin Cities Foundations committed to getting assistance out the door as quickly as possible.

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Why the Trump administration’s demand for a list of Jews at Penn is so dangerous

This month, a judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to justify its refusal to collect and disclose the names and personal contact information of Jewish faculty, staff and students to the federal government. Late last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Penn to force compliance with this chilling demand, made in the name of fighting antisemitism. Jewish and non-Jewish community members at Penn and beyond have united to support the university’s resistance to compiling and releasing data about members of campus Jewish organizations, the Jewish studies department, and individuals who participated in confidential listening sessions and surveys about antisemitism.

That such a diverse array of organizations, including Penn’s Hillel and Meor chapters, AAUP-Penn, the Association for Jewish Studies, the American Council on Education and Pen America, as well as local chapters of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation and the American Jewish Committee, have all spoken against the EEOC’s lawsuit reflects how deeply disturbing it is to think of the government demanding such a list. The Trump administration claims to act in the name of Jewish safety and against antisemitism, but this common reaction from groups with often divergent views may reflect a growing concern that its actions belie those laudable aims.

If history teaches us anything, it is that making lists of Jews, no matter the ostensible purpose, is often a prelude to their and others’ persecution. Many Jewish people affiliated with US universities, ourselves included, have family who escaped or died at the hands of authoritarian regimes that persecuted Jews and others based on their religious or political beliefs. Even if the EEOC is collecting Jewish community members’ personal data in a good-faith effort to ensure safety, lists of Jews can later be leaked, or deployed to other, more sinister ends. History is replete with examples: a census of Jews undertaken by the Dutch government in 1941, for instance, allowed the invading Nazis to target Jewish citizens for death camps and extermination.

At both an intellectual and a visceral level, then, the government requiring the university to hand over the personal contact information – including addresses – of Jewish students, faculty and staff, over strong objections, would be profoundly chilling under any circumstances. It is especially so in a political environment increasingly saturated with unvarnished hate, including antisemitism and white supremacy endorsed by individuals within the government and amplified by figures with outsize influence on some of its most powerful leaders. And the demand is especially concerning in light of the Trump administration’s broader assault on universities, free speech and academic freedom, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, other vulnerable communities and political dissent more generally.