Thousands brave cold to demand ICE leave Minneapolis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis in a demonstration of support for ICE officers and to ask local leaders and activists to reduce tensions, saying ICE was carrying out an important mission to detain immigration violators.
55% : State politicians have pressed the company for details of its guidance to employees if and when ICE officers show up at stores.
53% : The group asked that airline companies "stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state.
52% : Organisers said their demands included legal accountability for the ICE agent who shot dead Renee Good, a US citizen, in her car earlier this month as she monitored ICE activities.
51% : "Make no mistake, we are facing a full federal occupation by the United States government through the arm of ICE on unceded Dakota land," Rachel Dionne-Thunder, vice president of the Indigenous Protector Movement, told the arena crowd.
44% : She was one of a series of indigenous, religious, labour and community leaders to speak, calling on ICE to withdraw and for a thorough investigation into Ms Good's shooting.
42% : "We've seen an agency that seems to have no guardrails, as they have caused this pain and suffering all across Minnesota," said Lizz Winstead, a comedian and abortion rights advocate who served as host.
41% : Faith in Minnesota, a non-profit advocacy group that helped organise the protest, said the clergy were also calling attention to airport and airline workers who they said had been detained by ICE at work.
34% : Organisers and participants said scores of businesses across Minnesota closed for the day and workers headed to street protests and marches, which followed weeks of sometimes violent confrontations between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and protesters opposed to Mr Trump's surge.
18% : Thousands of demonstrators braved bitter cold to march through the streets of Minneapolis and demand an end to President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in their city, part of a wider "ICE OUT!"
18% : Mr Trump, a Republican, was elected in 2024 largely on his platform of enforcing immigration laws with a promise to crack down on violent criminals, saying Democratic President Joe Biden was too lax in border security.

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