ICE Out Of Minnesota 

CSEW supporter speaking to 
furious crowd of protesters who 
gathered at the site of Alex 
Pretti's murder, January 
24. See video here. 

Starting in December 2025, the Trump administration dispatched some 3,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota in what it billed as the largest ever immigration enforcement deployment in the most massive deportations in U.S. history. For the next two months the masked paramilitary ICE and Border Patrol agents were marauding through the streets terrorizing immigrants and the population as a whole. Schools were targeted as parents were arrested when dropping off their children or returning home. 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos who was kidnapped by ICE in the driveway of his home after returning from pre-school became the symbol of the inhumanity of the assault on immigrants. Class Struggle Education Workers undertook to build solidarity with the immigrants, teachers and people of Minnesota in their courageous resistance to this brutal occupation. On two occasions CSEW supporters traveled to Minneapolis to make contact with their fellow educators. 

On this page you will find: 

• The motion for an emergency demonstration by the United Federation of Teachers in solidarity with Minneapolis presented by a CSEW supporter. The motion passed by 90% in the UFT Delegate Assembly, and the rally/march was held on January 23rd in conjunction with the "No Work, No School, No Shopping" day of action in Minnesota when over 75,000 people marched to demand "ICE Out of Minnesota."     

•  A leaflet by the health care workers working group of the New York Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants following the January 24 execution of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, titled "Health Care Workers Say: No ICE in the Hospitals!" The leaflet declares Pretti a hero for health care workers, all labor and defenders of immigrant rights, a sentiment that was expressed by nurses unions in New York and around the country. 
• An article from the online site of The Clarion, the newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress, the faculty staff union at the City University of New York, titled "On the Ground in Minneapolis." The author, Sándor John, who traveled to Minneapolis for the January 23 mass march and demonstration and participated in the protests at the site of Alex Pretti's murder the following day, is a member of the Immigrant Solidarity Working Group of the PSC, and supporter of CSEW. 
• The greetings to the Workers Assembly, held in Minneapolis on February 15, by Yari Milo Michel, on behalf of Class Struggle Education Workers, recounting solidarity and immigrant defense actions in New York City. NYC educators traveled to Minneapolis for the event, and to speak with teachers who have played a vital role in the resistance to the ICE rampage that has terrorized Minneapolis schools. 
• An interview (beginning at 34:00) on WBAI NYC radio with Sándor John, who talks about the situation in Minneapolis, including at the mass demonstration on January 23 and the protests at the site of Alex Pretti's murder the following day. He describes the mass resistance by the people of Minneapolis against the ICE onslaught, along with the need for mass workers action against the deportations, including forming committees to defend immigrants like those that have been formed at a number of schools in New York City.