MINNEAPOLIS — Despite bitter cold temperatures on Sunday, postal workers and other community members in Minneapolis rallied against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Twin Cities, specifically demanding that ICE not use postal property to stage its operations.
National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 Vice President Chris Pennock said ICE agents have been using the Lake Street and Powderhorn post office parking lots to stage operations over the past two weeks.
“At the Powderhorn post office, they arrested somebody right in the middle of when we’re bringing back our mail,” Pennock said. “Vans with tinted windows and body armor and guns. We shouldn’t have to work in that kind of environment.”
“We want people to know that we are not working with ICE. We are in support of our immigrant coworkers and our neighbors, and we want to see a society free of secret police,” Pennock added.
Im all for ICE if someone is here is the US illegally!! We are having to many killings by illegal immigrants ! Send them back to their own country and come back Legally and vetted!!!!!