Target employees ask company to bar ICE from stores in Minnesota

Businessinsider viewed a letter emailed to Target management on Friday in which hundreds of employees urged the Minneapolis-based retailer to bar ICE from its stores; the letter was signed by 284 employees, many of them Minnesota residents, and was addressed to current CEO Brian Cornell and incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke.

The letter called on Target to “do the right thing” and outlined specific demands including a public statement calling for ICE to leave the state, instructing the company to keep ICE off Target properties, updating training and policy to let asset-protection and corporate-security staff trespass or remove agents operating without a judicial warrant, posting signage denying entry to immigration authorities, cutting funding to the current administration, and following community leaders’ recommendations.

The letter also criticised Target’s recent scaling back of its Pride collection, winding down of some DEI initiatives, and a donation to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, and it cited the January 7 death of Renee Good after an encounter with immigration authorities; the report says no charges have been filed in Good’s death and that the deputy attorney general has said there is currently no basis for a criminal civil-rights investigation.

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Business, Target, Ice, Minnesota, Brian Cornell, Michael Fiddelke