Lunch at Manny's Tortas - Fight ICE with Food

***This event is open to ANYONE who wants to support some of the people most impacted by ICE in Minneapolis***

PICTURED: Brother and sister owners Manny and Victoria González

Many of the businesses at Midtown Global Market are suffering because of the ICE raids all around this area. Manny's is hanging on by a thread and may have to close because of this. Let's support them by having lunch here and eating their delicious sandwiches (tortas).

From Axios Twin Cities:
Manny González's torta stand in the Midtown Global Market survived the burning and looting of Lake Street in 2020, but might not make it through the flood of ICE agents in the immigrant-heavy neighborhood.

"This is worse," González said.
Why it matters: ICE's unprecedented surge into diverse Twin Cities neighborhoods has battered small businesses that had been inching back toward normal after 2020.

The Lake Street Council told the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal that on a given day, up to 60% of the area's businesses are closed. Several were dark at the Global Market.

It goes beyond Lake Street, as the Star Tribune reported similar distress on other corridors, including St. Paul's Payne Avenue.

State of play: Business is down 40% at González's popular Manny's Tortas. He thinks he can only survive another month like this.

The latest: As he talked to Axios from his kitchen on Wednesday, the sound of whistles could be heard as ICE agents walked by outside.

"They just abducted another person," a market staffer said, noting that agents have been a constant presence outside the complex filled with Latino and East African businesses.

Between the lines: Proprietors say their employees are afraid to show up for work, which would be a bigger problem if not for the fact that their customers are also staying home.

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