Immigrant & Refugee Resources

Immigrant & Refugee Resources

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.

Things you can do to be helpful to our immigrant residents:

If you are able to, give money.

Food shelves are seeing an increasing demand and need to purchase more food. Find your local food shelf.

Or give to Second Harvest Heartland, a food bank that also supplies food to food shelves and other programs that distribute food.

Programs that help immigrant and refugee people need money too. See the list of community organizations further down on this page.

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 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.

Whistle Information SheetDownload

The City of Minneapolis Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs webpage is very helpful and is available in many languages. You can direct people to it if they are looking for resources for people they know. It also lists several non-profit resources which work with immigrants and refugees who likely need financial support.

Sources of information on immigration developments and interpretation of impacts of those developments

Tracking of Executive Orders, Memoranda, additional government actions and litigation

Community organizations

  • Defend the 612
    • “Defend the 612 is an attempt to help community members within geographies get connected to one another — to support and connect people into the neighborhood formations that are responding to this violent and immoral onslaught. Specifically, we intend to plug people into existing groups or formations near them which are actively looking for more support & resourcing, and support people with the resources to get things started in geographies where there are gaps.”
  • UnidosMN
    • “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.”
  • CopalMN
    • “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.”
  • Monarca
    • “The Monarca Rapid Response Line is dedicated to responding to Federal enforcement activity in Minnesota. Since the western edges of Wisconsin are a part of the Twin Cities metro, we have responders in western Wisconsin, too. This network is designed to send trained responders to witness federal activity in our communities.”
  • Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza
    • “Our 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.”
  • MIRAC (Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee)
    • 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.
  • CLUES (Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio)
    • “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.”
  • MN8
    • “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
    • “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
    • “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.”
  • CUAPB (Communities United Against Police Brutality)
    • “Communities United Against Police BrutalityTM 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.”
  • Immigrant Defense Network
    • “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.”

City of Minneapolis Resources and Meetings on immigration topics

Legal service providers

Other local governmental offices focusing on immigrant and refugee inclusion

Other

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.