Minneapolis has become kind of a ground zero in the struggle over what this country is becoming,

especially as American institutions fail again and again to meet this moment.

Some of this fight is visible on our televisions, on our phones.

Much of it is happening away from the cameras. It's happening where American residents no longer dividing

themselves neatly into groups of either citizens or immigrants, but seeing one another as neighbors

are asking a very basic question. What do the businesses we support owe to our communities

from which they profit handsomely. Because while the

Department of Homeland Security and its constituent agencies, ICE and CBP, are the visible face of

this crackdown, they don't operate alone. They never have. Behind every enforcement action is an

entire ecosystem of private contractors and vendors and landlords and transportation companies and

data brokers and technology firms that make ICE and CBPs work possible.

And that brings the private sector squarely into this story. When a company chooses to do business

in a community, it enters into an implied social contract. Yes, it answers to shareholders,

but it also relies on customers and employees and the stability of the communities in which it

operates. When a company allows its property or services or infrastructure to be used in ways

that predictably harm those communities, that trust is broken. Because communities are not simply

markets, they are not

disposable inputs. When companies violate the trust of the communities in which they operate,

history shows us that people use their economic power to hold companies accountable. In the case of

DHS, ICE, and CBP, accountability means identifying and scrutinizing the companies that provide the accommodations,

the transportation, the technology, the data systems, the communications infrastructure

on which this immigration crackdown that is terrorizing America's cities depends.

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