One of the effects of living as a Latin@ in isolated “non-traditional” Latin@ geographical areas is that very often, when horrible things (like ICE raids) happen, there’s often very little organizational support from other Latin@s. For example, major Latin@ organizations like NCLR rarely have more than a blurb of information about raids in small Michigan towns.

The good thing is that Latin@s in small cities/states are finding new and exciting ways to organize with people that Latin@s normally wouldn’t organize with:

On Oct. 24, about 60 people demonstrated in Minneapolis to protest a recent ICE sweep through southern Minnesota. The demonstration was called by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition. (The Militant, Nov. 10) From Oct. 21 to 23, ICE Fugitive Operations Team members arrested 17 people in southern Minnesota’s Watonwan County: 10 in the town of Madelia, five in St. James and one each in Butterfield and Lewisville