The surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota over the past few months left many people not only traumatized but financially hard up.
People lost income because they were too afraid to go to work or their breadwinner was taken by agents of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. Small business owners, in turn, lost revenue because their workers and customers didn’t show up.
In Minneapolis alone, the city government now estimates 76,000 residents – or about 20% of the city’s population – have urgent needs in terms of lost wages, food insecurity and an inability to make rent, among other things.
Mutual aid helps provide a lifeline
Mutual aid groups of volunteers have mobilized to help neighbors sheltering at home with life’s essentials.
Such groups are not nonprofits and are not formally organiz
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