Minneapolis City Councilor Robin Wonsley on Fighting ICE
Democratic socialist and Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley was reelected and elevated to minority leader just days before ICE escalated its raids. We spoke to her about fighting immigration repression alongside city residents.
Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley speaks to a crowd of bystanders near the scene where federal agents shot and killed Renée Good earlier on Portland Ave. in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, January 7, 2026. (Alex Kormann / The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Robin Wonsley is the Minneapolis City Council member for Ward Two, the council’s minority leader, and leader of Minneapolis’s Democratic Socialist Caucus. Her reelection made her the first city council leader to represent a bloc of democratic socialists in the city’s history, just days before the full onset of the Trump administration’s occupation.
Jacobin recently talked with Wonsley about the ICE deployments in Minneapolis and how cities can help protect community members from ongoing federal brutality and overreach.
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