When Federal Agents Come to Town
You Can Safeguard Your Community
Prepare Your Business for ICE Actions: Download our toolkit to learn how small business owners like you can protect your businesses, your staff, and your communities.
Protecting Our Neighbors Is Good for Business
Our immigrant neighbors are deeply integrated into the fabric of our communities and local economies. They are our customers, clients, employees, and fellow entrepreneurs. Without their participation, sectors like hospitality, construction, agriculture, caregiving, and manufacturing struggle to function. Immigrant-owned small business owners anchor entire neighborhoods.
A functioning economy depends on people feeling safe commuting to work, operating businesses, and participating in everyday economic activity. When workers and customers stay home out of fear, Main Street suffers.
Meanwhile, ICE officials have declared war on our immigrant neighbors and communities, characterizing them as threats to the American way of life. Masked, unaccountable federal agents patrol American cities in unmarked cars, abducting anyone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. These abductions involve by racial profiling, unlawful and abusive tactics, and an appalling lack of due process. Agents have beaten, tear gassed, and fatally shot Americans exercising their Constitutional right to protest and document the federal crackdown.
Fear has spread beyond targeted communities. A meal at a local restaurant or a stroll through a commercial district becomes a lot less appealing to potential customers when witnessing a kidnapping is no longer a remote possibility.
Businesses lose revenue. Some have to close their doors.
When Lawlessness Reigns, Our Economy Suffers
Immigrants account for a collective $1.7 trillion annually in spending power, and immigrant entrepreneurs generated $116.2 billion in income in 2023.
Yet, in Orange County, California, businesses lost close to $59 million over two months following increased federal immigration activity.
Between December 2025 and February 2026, small businesses across the Twin Cities’ cultural corridors lost a total of $213 million in revenue as a result of ICE operations. Many of these small businesses individually reported revenue losses between 50% - 90%. Some are on the brink of permanent closure.
