Minneapolis Faith Leaders Amplify Demands for ICE to Repent

Minister JaNaé Bates Imari speaks during an interfaith presser held at the scene of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, Jan. 8, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans  

After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good, faith leaders in Minneapolis joined demands that ICE leave their city and repent.

“We have our demands. Hundreds of clergy across this state who have gathered together across faith traditions are standing with the rest of Minnesotans to say not again,” Minister JaNaé Bates Imari, co-executive director of ISAIAH, a multiracial interfaith nonprofit, told a crowd of Minnesotans at a press conference.

The press conference, organized by ISAIAH, drew more than a hundred leaders from numerous faith traditions, representing the breadth of the city’s religious communities. ISAIAH presented its demands: That ICE agent Jonathan Ross be arrested, charged, and prosecuted for killing Good; that ICE immediately cease its surge in operations in the state; and that Congress investigate the Department of Homeland Security.

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