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Minnesotans are using a diverse array of tactics in their resistance to the hostile ICE invasion of their state.

Neighbors have built mutual aid networks to support those afraid to leave their homes. Others are tracking agents and sounding alarms about potential raids. And — most visibly — labor unions, faith groups, and community organizations have mobilized mass demonstrations against federal agents’ lawlessness and violence.

One tactic of particular interest to our team at Inequality.org is the targeting of ICE's corporate accomplices. Organizers are directing public ire toward wealthy CEOs of Target, Hilton, Home Depot and other large corporations who seem too concerned about protecting profits to take a strong stand against the ICE reign of terror.

In response to this pressure, leaders of major Minnesota-based firms have issued a weak call for “de-escalation.” The letter fails to directly denounce the violence and lacks any commitment to protecting even their own workers from ICE attacks. But even this tepid response shows that corporate leaders are starting to feel the pressure. Check out our interview below with an on-the-ground union organizer who says it's time to increase the heat.

In the split second before the ICE agent tackled him, Jonathan Aguilar Garcia darted through the door of the suburban Minneapolis Target store where he works. He wrongly assumed he’d be safe in his own workplace.

Agents wrestled Aguilar Garcia to the ground and shoved him and another young Latino employee into an unmarked SUV. Both workers are U.S. citizens.

As ICE agents dragged Walmart worker Suban Noor from her car in the small Minnesota town of Willmar, her shoes fell off, leaving the Somali high school student barefoot in the cold. Her family was unable to contact her until her release nearly a week later.

The CEOs of Target and Walmart have made fortunes off the backs of low-wage immigrant workers. With these workers now facing violent ICE attacks, it’s time for their powerful bosses to take a stand.

The ICE Out of MN campaign is mobilizing public pressure on corporate leaders to do just that by closing their stores during a state-wide protest this coming Friday. Whose side will these executives be on?

Renee Good's murder at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is a national tragedy. The ICE agent shot the 37-year-old mother of three three times for little more than trying to protect her community. This horrifying incident — and the 32 individuals who died in ICE custody in 2025 — remind us once again just how fundamentally violent ICE is.

Trump's ICE deployments haven't just bolstered his racist anti-immigrant agenda. They’re also weakening the labor power of migrant workers and enriching enterprises like the GEO Group. This private prison outfit received a $39 million contract from ICE last year to cage detainees in Colorado for six months. GEO’s BI Group subsidiary is now helping ICE track down and detain immigrants in a deal that could be worth up to $121 million.

The Trump gang and its allied corporate partners are working — across issues — in incredibly close collaboration. The challenge for our progressive movements: to band together to confront those connections more effectively.

The first question that came to my mind after the U.S. attack and coup in Venezuela: Who’s gonna make big bucks off of all this?

In the 2000s, I spent a lot of time tracking Iraq War profiteers. The most infamous would be Halliburton. This defense contracting giant faced a series of damning charges — from massive fraud to serving soldiers contaminated water — but none of those scandals stopped Halliburton’s CEO from becoming one of America’s highest-paid executives.

Now the #1 Iraq War profiteer stands to profit from yet another U.S. war for oil. Just weeks before the invasion, Halliburton sued Venezuela over lost profits related to the U.S.-imposed sanctions that had halted their operations in that country five years ago. Suddenly, Halliburton decided to demand $200 million in compensation — not from the United States, but from Venezuela. A U.S.-backed puppet government might actually comply with that absurd demand.

The story of greed-fueled militarism is not new. Stay tuned as we monitor — and denounce — this latest chapter.