01/22/26: Bernie Burnham is President of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, and spent 14 years as an elementary school teacher. Mark Froemke is the President of the West Minnesota Area and Red River Valley Area AFL-CIO. Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike that encourages all Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping to protest the presence of ICE.

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)