Today we honor mothers across every culture, language, neighborhood, and story. The world may try to reduce people to a single narrative, but motherhood has always been larger than stereotypes, borders, or race. It lives in sacrifice, protection, wisdom, resilience, and unconditional love.
From every background and every walk of life, mothers carry generations forward in ways seen and unseen. Today we celebrate the beauty of that shared humanity. We also hold space for the mothers separated from their children, including those being held in detention centers away from their families.
Happy Mother’s Day to the women who continue to hold communities together with love. 💙
Share this card with mom and let us know in the comments one thing about your mom that you are grateful for 🥹🙏🏾
What is the Immigrant Defense Network?
We are a power-building network of multiracial, multifaith, and multigenerational organizations and individuals across Minnesota bringing together organizations and leaders to do what no single group can do alone: build coordinated, collective power.
IDN exists to ensure that immigrant communities are protected but also positions to lead:
Organizing at scale
Engaging in the political process
Defending rights through collective action
This is how communities move from rapid response to influence. From being impacted by decisions to shaping them.
Continue to stand up for your neighbors.
Continue to support the IDN.
Together, we will create the change we need.
Visit our website by going to our linktree in our bio to learn more about the IDN 🥹🙏🏾💙
Leadership doesn’t come from the top, it is built, trained, and mobilized in community.
At the time when democracy is being tested, investing in young leaders is the strategy.
Our partners at @AYADALeads are preparing the next generation of leaders to run campaigns, shape policy, and redefine who belongs in positions of power.
Through the FLIP Campaign School, organizers and candidates gain the tools to lead powerful, people-centered campaigns.
🗳️ Apply by May 15, 2026
📩 [email protected]
This is our moment to come together.
Across the Midwest, immigrant communities are rising to defend our rights, our families, and our democracy and now, shaping the future of democracy in this country.
The Brave of Us: Midwest Democracy & Power Summit, is where strategy meets action; where organizers, leaders, and institutions align to build strategy, deepen our power, and shape what comes next.
📅 June 11 & 12
✊ Register now (link in bio)
Because the future of this country will not be decided for us. It will be built by us.
They said ICE had immunity. They were wrong. The first ICE agent has been charged in connection to Operation Metro Surge.
For months, our communities have been sounding the alarm about:
The fear.
The harm.
The violence people were told to accept.
Today, for the first time, an ICE agent is facing two felony charges for actions during Operation Metro Surge.
This happened because our communities have spoken, documented, and refused to stay silent.
From Julio Sosa-Celis to Renee Good to Alex Pretti—this moment is part of a larger pattern that has been denied, minimized, and hidden.
They withheld evidence.
They controlled the narrative
They expected silence and no consequences.
But accountability is beginning to break through.
So what does this mean?
It means federal agents are not above the law.
It means state and local systems can intervene when rights are violated.
And it means every case of abuse, every withheld record, every unanswered question must now be fully investigated.
This is the opening of accountability:
✊ Release the evidence
✊ Full transparency
✊ Accountability for ALL harm
Human rights cannot depend on who holds power, and democracy cannot function without accountability.
No one is above the law.
Our communities deserve safety, dignity, and truth.
Alejandro Cabrera Clemente was 49 years old. On April 11, he died while in ICE custody at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana.
Alejandro is now the 47th person to die in ICE detention under this administration.
This is not an isolated tragedy; this is what happens when human rights are treated as optional and enforcement is treated as a priority.
We have to name this for what it is: a systemic failure rooted in policy.
His life mattered. His story should not have ended in a detention center. And accountability cannot wait.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Just a “day in the life” of constitutional observer trainers: from traveling all over in La Valiente, to supporting local restaurants in rural towns, to speaking to crowds of brave folks in meeting rooms and church basements all over the Midwest. What does a typical day of training observers look like? Check the link in our bio to see upcoming tour dates!
#braveofus #constitutionalobservers
To all those who have supported our work here at the Immigrant Defense Network by contributing their time, money, and resources — We sincerely thank you.
Your partnership is essential to everything we do. Thank you for standing with us!
"Tuan Van Bui, a 55-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, died at the Miami Correctional Center in Indiana.
According to an ABC News analysis of ICE data and the number of detainee deaths provided to Congress, the first 14 months of the second Trump administration represent the deadliest period for the federal detention system in recent years, with the exception of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a spike in deaths."
The recent Supreme Court hearing on Trump v. Barbara represents more than an attack on birthright citizenship, it is an attempt to change what it means to be American. “We are fighting for the heart and soul of this country. The fight to protect birthright citizenship is about our neighbors, our families, our kids.”—Anthony Romero, ACLU Executive. #birthrightcitizenship #scotus #immigrantdefensenetwork
Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in our nationwide class action brought by the ACLU and partners on behalf of children who would be denied citizenship under one of President Trump’s executive orders.
By attacking birthright citizenship, President Trump is defying the Constitution again.
