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The Minneapolis teachers union leader recently revealed that local politicians are actively participating in efforts against ICE operations within the city.
“It’s surprising to think that those of us involved in monitoring ICE activities—whether through Signal chat groups, checking vehicle plates, or patrolling our neighborhoods—should feel any shame,” Marcia Howard expressed during an interview with Al Jazeera broadcast last week. “The idea that our faces could be exposed, and calls made to our employers, leading to community rejection, is unfounded.”
Marcia Howard, a prominent figure at George Floyd Square, attended a candlelight vigil on May 25, 2025, alongside other community members to commemorate the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s passing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images)
As the president of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Howard gained prominence for her support of the 2020 protests following George Floyd’s death. With 25 years of experience as an English teacher, she has also been recognized as a guardian of the memorial site, engaging with activists there every morning.
“We are not alone in this,” she continued. “Our supervisors and elected representatives are right there in the Signal chats, standing with us.”
Local teacher and activist Marcia Howard (C) speaks with demonstrators who traveled from around the country outside the Hennepin County Government Center on Dec. 23, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota during jury deliberations in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who was charged with manslaughter in the April 2021 shooting death of Daunte Wright. Potter says she thought she was using her Taser when she shot Wright with her handgun. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Howard also said that local “nanas,” hockey coaches and soccer moms are participating in the pushback against federal immigration enforcement, as ICE and Border Patrol attempt to arrest illegal aliens, many of whom have further criminal histories in the United States.
“Everybody that’s anybody is doing the work of protecting our neighbors, because that’s how we show up in Minneapolis and St. Paul,” she said.
She also said that teachers are involved in the attempts to subvert federal law enforcement.
A Border Patrol agent chatted with a protester in Minnesota on Thursday, finding common ground over military service. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)
“We’re armed with whistles and our phones making sure that students are safe going to class,” she said. “And then they escalated the brutality. Every single day they taunted us. From their rental trucks, they would do things like — the agents that they brought to the Twin Cities — these hapless, untrained, overly-militarized agents, were in hotel rooms where they did not detain the workers in those hotel rooms because they wanted to be served by immigrants.”
She also said federal immigration officers have, “declared war on my state, they have declared war in my city,” and compared them to slave catchers and the Ku Klux Klan.Â
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