How Trump-era immigration policies are reshaping daily life in Minneapolis and St Paul

As immigration enforcement intensifies, Minneapolis communities retreat indoors while grassroots networks quietly mobilise in fear and solidarity

The International Institute of Minnesota cost $15m to build. In a way, Donald Trump helped pay for it. But not in a way you would imagine he’ll have liked.

“We did a huge fundraising campaign under the first Trump administration and I was thinking, ‘What terrible timing to be doing this’, given all he was saying,” said Jane Graupman, the executive director of the centre.