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The people of Minneapolis see clearly that the housing crisis is one of the key next fronts of racist deportation terror. Throughout one of the largest, longest and most violent federal occupations of any American city, the threat of eviction from homes that people have been sheltering has continued the work of forced removal by another means.

In Minneapolis, families who couldn't work for months because of ICE terror, or who have had their family members stolen, don't have the money to make rent. As we stay vigilant for ICE and federal agents of state violence, extractive landlords who insist on profit at the expense of targeted communities have become one of the most immediate threats and focuses for our neighborhoods.

Landlords and political leaders could choose to sacrifice real estate profit to protect these families from losing their homes. Every eviction threat facing families who have endured the most violent consequences of occupation is a consequence of their refusal to make that choice.

Just as the people of Minneapolis refused to allow ICE to abduct, terrorize and disappear our neighbors in anonymity and in secret, we shine a light on landlords that are threatening to throw our neighbors out of their homes.