(Adnkronos) – The mobilization of Minneapolis’s population against Donald Trump’s anti-migrant police operations, which are terrorizing the Minnesota city, continues. Thousands of volunteers are indeed participating in an initiative launched by a church to deliver groceries to immigrant families, who are locked in their homes for fear of being stopped and detained by Ice.
“For us Latinos, this is worse than Covid, a bigger epidemic, our community is traumatized, people born here in the USA are traumatized,” Sergio Amezcua, pastor of the Dios Habla Hoy church, told the New York Times, explaining that he had organized the same home delivery service during Covid, but to a much lesser extent. So far, the church has received 25,000 online grocery requests, and since the service started, there have been 14,000 deliveries.
Amezcua further explains that volunteers are accepted after a background check to prevent infiltration by federal agents, and then given instructions on how to conduct checks and how to behave in case of checks by Ice. Amezcua, who describes himself as a conservative, says that when he heard about Ice’s arrival in Minnesota, he wasn’t worried because he thought immigrants with criminal records would be targeted. But then, when Ice’s aggressive tactics against anyone who isn’t white emerged, he changed his mind: ‘this is literally racism in the name of patriotism, and a conservative says it, I feel betrayed by Trump’.
