
This page includes resources provided to us by Michelle Rivero, Director of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs for the city of Minneapolis, as well as other resources gathered by members of the PPUMC community.
If you have questions, concerns, input, prayers, or otherwise, please feel free to reach out to Pastor Paul Baudhuin at pastorpaul@prospectparkchurch.org or Kelley Jewett at outreach@prospectparkchurch.org.
There are many types of work to be done: informing ourselves, educating others, providing rapid response to affected individuals and families, and communicating with elected officials.
Page last updated on January 27, 2026
RAPID RESPONSE

Whistle information in multiple languages can be found here: link.tree/mspwhistles
WHY DO WHISTLES WORK?
-Instant alert system
-Faster than social media
-Turns silence into community action
If you see ICE in your neighborhood, a parking lot or somewhere in your vicinity, take out your phone and document the incident.
You can make noise, too but, this is very important: do not intervene in the situation. Do not touch the federal agents. Stand back. You can call 911 but let the local law enforcement handle things. Use your whistles if you have them. Make sure you have an ID.
TAKE ACTION
If you are able to, give money.

Stand with Minnesota has a directory of places to donate that has been compiled by activists on the ground.
Food shelves are seeing an increasing demand and need to purchase more food. Find your local food shelf.
- Food Shelf Map – City of Minneapolis
- MN Food Help Map – The Food Group
- Little Free Pantry
- Second Harvest Heartland
If you have a relationship with someone who is staying home and afraid to go out, offer to help them with grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions, and other errands.
Note – only offer this if you know them and have an established relationship. If you are providing this type of assistance to someone you do not know, make sure they are aware you are coming and have requested assistance.
Attend an Upstander training.
Monarca and Defend the 612 are good places to check for upcoming trainings, but keep an eye on other local organizations, as well.

Through organizing their own autonomous, community-based, decentralized rapid response networks, neighbors have kept each other informed about ICE activity in real-time and have quickly come together to actively protect their family, friends, neighbors, blocks, schools, places of worship, neighborhoods, and cities. Use the resources on this website to take care of and protect your community.
LEGAL ASSISTANCE & RESOURCES
Legal service providers
- Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
- The Advocates for Human Rights
- Mid Minnesota Legal Aid
- Volunteers Lawyer Network
- Nonprofit and private attorneys listed here (scroll down midpage)
Other
NEWS & DEVELOPING INFORMATION
Sources of information on immigration developments and interpretation of impacts of those developments
Tracking of Executive Orders, Memoranda, additional government actions and litigation
- Just Security (partnership with New York University)
- Just Security Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
- Just Security Collection of Executive Actions
- Immigration Policy Tracking Project (partnership with Stanford and Yale law students led by Prof. Lucas Guttentag)
Independent Media in MN
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.

“Unidos MN is a grassroots organization that builds power with Minnesota’s working families to advance social, racial, and economic justice for all. Born from the strength of the DREAMER movement, we place immigration, education, and climate justice at the heart of our work. As an intersectional and intergenerational organization led by women and multiracial communities, we unite people from all backgrounds to fight for a future where everyone can thrive—no exceptions.”

“COPAL, Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past seven years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.”

“Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza‘s mission is to dismantle the systems and structures that oppress immigrant people by building power through organizing, educating, and resourcing the Latino/x/a community in its struggle and hope for liberation.”

“CLUES is Minnesota’s largest Latino-led nonprofit organization, founded in 1981 by and for Latinos. Our work is to ensure the advancement of social and economic equity and wellbeing for Latinos in Minnesota. CLUES has offices on the East Side of St. Paul, Lake Street in Minneapolis, and also Willmar and Austin in Greater MN.”

“Over 17,000 Southeast Asians have received final orders of removal since 2002. We fight deportation cases in collaboration with attorneys, power builders, and other community organizations to return dignity and justice to our people.”

“Pillsbury United Communities co-creates enduring change toward a just society. Built with and for the people we serve, our united system of programs, neighborhood centers, and social enterprises empowers individuals and families across the region to own their future on their own terms.”

“Indivisible Twin Cities, a local chapter of national Indivisible, is a grassroots group of volunteers dedicated to increasing civic engagement and education on progressive policies at the city, state and national level. We encourage civic engagement by organizing informative actions and events to spotlight issues and candidates who support our values of strengthening our democracy and defeating the MAGA authoritarian agenda.”

“Established in 2025, the Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) is a network of over 90 immigrant, labor, legal, faith, and community organizations dedicated to protecting and advancing the constitutional rights of immigrant communities across Minnesota. In the face of ongoing and escalating threats to immigrant rights, IDN delivers trusted information, referrals to legal support, and coordinated educational activities. Immigrants are the backbone of Minnesota’s economy, cultural richness, and civic life. We all deserve to live with dignity and without fear.”

“The Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM) engages in courageous spiritual, multicultural action in solidarity with immigrants and refugees to achieve justice and stand up to systems of oppression.”

“Communities United Against Police Brutality™ is a Twin-Cities based organization that was created to deal with police brutality on an ongoing basis. We work on the day-to-day abuses as well as taking on the more extreme cases. Our overriding goal is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can take on police brutality and actually bring it to an end. We provide support for survivors of police brutality and families of victims so they can reclaim their dignity and join the struggle to end police brutality.”
OTHER RESOURCES
City of Minneapolis Resources and Meetings on immigration topics
- Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs
- Twin Cities Immigration Forum info
- Contact seynab.miyer@minneapolismn.gov and michelle.rivero@minneapolismn.gov for invite
- Meetings take place virtually on alternate Thursdays from 4:30-6 pm
- Community radio programs in language
Other local governmental offices focusing on immigrant and refugee inclusion
- City of St. Paul Immigrant and Refugee Program
- Hennepin County Office of Multicultural Services
- State of MN Resettlement Programs Office within MN Department of Human Services
- Office of New Americans, within MN Department of Employment and Economic Development
The United Methodist Church
Unfortunately, the Minnesota Council of Churches has had to close their refugee services due to funding cuts made by the federal government. Information about the work of the United Methodist Church with immigrants and refugees can be found here.


