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How A Minnesota Teachers Union Funnels Support To ‘Front Group’ Fighting To Abolish ICE And Prisons

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19.03.2026

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How A Minnesota Teachers Union Funnels Support To ‘Front Group’ Fighting To Abolish ICE And Prisons

TakeAction Minnesota is ‘basically a front group that can get away with doing some things the unions can’t,’ said Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education.

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Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators in Minnesota operate as a “front group” for a state teachers union in the leftist campaign against immigration law, according to activist documents and federal records brought to light by Defending Education.

Minneapolis Families for Public Schools (MFPS), reportedly an “initiative” of TakeAction Minnesota (TAM), helps organize “Rapid Response Networks & ICE Watch” centered around neighborhoods and schools, the documents show, while TAM has partnered with other radical-left groups in events that involve student walk-outs and backed other leftist activism at schools.

“The teachers unions continue to prove they are rotten apples that only care about far-left street activism, to the detriment of educating children,” Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education, told The Federalist. “Teachers and community groups should be dedicating time to improving learning outcomes for students, not creating strategies and lists of people to attempt to thwart law enforcement.”

Education Minnesota, the state teachers union, has financially supported TAM, and an archived version of TAM’s website shows MFPS stating that it is “standing with” the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE), the local union, during its next contract negotiation, because “the MFE contract is a place to win strong language and enforcement on our priorities.”

Staley said that TAM is “basically a........

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