February 9
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February 15
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This Valentine’s Day week, people across the country are coming together to show love and solidarity with immigrant communities—and to reject the violent, intrusive, and unlawful tactics being carried out by the Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
This is a weekend of nonviolent action, collective care, and public accountability. Sign up to show your participation and to receive updates and resources.
Below are 4 simple ways to take part. Choose one or take on several. Every action matters.
1) Share Love & Solidarity on Social Media Use your voice to help flood social media with messages of love, dignity, and solidarity for immigrants and their families.
What to do:
- Post a message of love and solidarity for immigrant communities Share why you believe immigrants deserve safety, dignity, and due process
- Lift up stories from your own community if you feel comfortable
Please use this To Immigrants With Love social media toolkit from FWD.us with sample language, graphics, and video templates. Social Toolkit: https://tinyurl.com/5kz75rbf
Why it matters: Public narrative shapes public action. When we show up together online, we counter fear with humanity.
2) Call on Congress: Demand Accountability from ICE and CBP Congress has the power—and the responsibility—to oversee DHS and stop abuses.
What to do:
- Call or email your U.S. Senators and Representative
- Demand real accountability, transparency, and consequences for ICE and CBP abuses
- Oppose any new funding for ICE or CBP without enforceable oversight and accountability
Call the Capitol switchboard and ask to be connected with your members of Congress: (202) 224-3121
You can also use these quick and simple email tools to send your members of Congress a message right now!
3) Plug into Ongoing Immigrant Rights Actions here on Turn Purple 2 Blue!
Here are a few more great groups doing important ongoing work!
National Daylaborer Organizing Network (NDLON) – Adopt a Corner https://ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-labor-corner/
Detention Watch Network – Communities Not Cages https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/communitiesnotcages
United We Dream – Deportation Defense https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/deportation-defense/
The Workers Circle – Freedom Vigils http://freedomvigils.org
National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention – Paper Dolls to Free Families: https://tinyurl.com/4w255wpu – Free Families Vigils: https://freefamilies.net/
4) Commit to Showing Up for Immigrants in Your Community Solidarity doesn’t stop at policy—it lives in our neighborhoods.
What this can look like:
- Support an immigrant-owned business by donating or buying from them (in MN, local immigrant owned business are struggling to survive, and many might not reopen after the occupation)
- Connect through schools and parents associations to provide support to immigrant families
- If you are a religious person, ask your pastor to preach from the pulpit and/or connect through a congregation to provide support to families in need
- Connect with local mutual aid networks to provide rides, translation, and other kinds of support
- Hire a day laborer! Providing a day of work with fair pay is an act of solidarity!
- Bake cookies or share a meal with an immigrant family nearby
- Simply check in on neighbors who may be feeling afraid or targeted
- Make it personal: Choose one concrete act of care you can do this weekend—and commit to it.
Our Shared Commitment
This weekend is about more than protest. It’s about choosing love over fear, community over cruelty, and accountability over abuse of power. No matter how you participate, thank you for showing up with compassion, courage, and solidarity.
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