WHEREAS, education unionists and many other sectors of the labor movement have expressed indignation and alarm at the brutal targeting of our immigrant fellow workers, family members, and communities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, including students, teachers, and staff at schools there, workers at the local Target store, families in their homes and cars, and many others; and

WHEREAS, last Wednesday, January 7, the ICE invasion of Minneapolis led directly to Renee Nicole Good being shot and killed by an ICE agent there, approximately one mile from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020; and

WHEREAS, Renee Nicole Good was a substitute teacher in the Minneapolis schools; and

WHEREAS, shortly after the killing of Renee Good, the Border Patrol attacked Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis brutalizing and threatening students, teachers, and staff there; and

WHEREAS, teachers’ unions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have condemned the murder of Good, the ICE Border Patrol onslaught against immigrants, and the population at large, and demanded that these federal forces leave town; and

WHEREAS, teachers, communications, transport, health and other workers’ unions have joined with community and religious groups to call a day of no work, no school on Friday, January 23 throughout Minnesota; and

WHEREAS, the latest death at the hands of ICE is being used to even further trample basic rights and terrorize people there and nationwide, while top officials of the federal government intensify the demonization of entire immigrant communities together with the victim of the January 7 killing by ICE; and

WHEREAS, the UFT has spoken out in defense of immigrant rights, and at last June's delegate assembly meeting passed an important resolution for union-led defense of immigrant students, faculty, and staff; therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the UFT will call for an emergency demonstration and day of action here in New York, in solidarity with our fellow unionists and with students, faculty, staff, and immigrant communities in Minnesota on Friday, January 23rd.