I’ve been working on this piece for over a month now, namely because I’ve undergone a change in the way I think about the way we talk about and frame social movements and civic rights.

The reality is 3,000 ICE agents are here, perfectly prepared to publicly murder us no matter who we are. ICE and the DHS are acting as if our rights don’t matter because to them, they don’t. It is everyone’s personal responsibility to make a risk assessment before we patrol, or do a supply run, or go to work, or even just leave the house: Is what I’m doing today worth the risk to my safety? Do I have everything I need to keep myself safe? The people of Minneapolis are going t

ICE agents continue to patrol the streets, raiding homes, abducting our neighbors, and surveilling us; but our city has mobilized. Everybody is armed with whistles and fully charged phones to document all ICE actions. Neighborhoods have their own teams of observers— people whose role is to alert others in the area if they see an ICE agent or vehicle and record what happens. People are stepping up to donate and run supplies to families in need.

This Monday, 2,000 ICE agents landed in Minneapolis, MN. Yesterday, Kristi Noem landed to lead the 30 day ICE invasion. Today, as ICE continues to attempt to kidnap our community members, a woman— Renee Nicole Good— was murdered by ICE for defending her community by simply existing in the way of the oppressor.

This article was originally supposed to be about intersectionality, and how the MMIR crisis and the fight for reproductive liberation are the same for indigenous people. As a genderfluid, bisexual, Indigenous, Laotian American second generation immigrant, I know all too well how systemic issues are not limited to one group of people.