here's the transcribed zine of our interview with Donna Mae, a nurse in Minneapolis about the ICE / CBP murders and community #RapidResponse

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/01/being-the-right-best-person-a-conversation-with-donna-mae-in-minneapolis/

The story of a Shoreline toddler being abandoned by ICE after snatching the kid's dad should galvanize more people towards joining or creating local rapid response groups.

Get those whistles, hop on signal and start a rapid response group today!

By the time anyone caught up to ICE on this dad's abduction ICE had already shipped him out to El Paso Texas!

https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/shoreline-father-ice-daycare-drop-off-toddler/281-0d2bd397-27db-4f5c-8f6e-a2d583829ea4

#Shoreline #Seattle #PNW #RapidResponse #FuckICE

Ben and Sam's mother,
#Audrey #Luhmann isn’t new to advocacy.

For years, she has been a key leader in the “ACNAtoo” movement,
an effort to combat sex abuse in her small, theologically conservative denomination.

She insists the same faith that drove her to organize against sex abuse now compels her to aid immigrants.

“In this moment, we have the moral truth and the moral grounding that is needed,
and it totally equips Christians and people of other faiths to be able to stand up and call evil by its right name,” Audrey said.

Audrey has also joined several other Signal groups dedicated to helping immigrants,
including one called “6,000 moms.”

Her phone pings constantly.

Asked about the noise, she held up her phone to show the latest message:
-- A mom asking simply,
“How can I help?”

All told, she fields 1,200 to 1,300 messages a day,
she estimated.

Her sons, she said,
get far more.
“They’re getting over three thousand.”

When Audrey arrived at the medical center, Denisse was standing alone outside.

The two greeted each other warmly, embracing before Denisse climbed into the van.

The two chatted about the chemo treatments before quickly changing subjects to discuss child-rearing and favorite foods.

The vibe is cheery, although Denisse’s tone briefly dimmed when she was asked about her situation.

“I think we’re suffering too much,” she said, speaking in Spanish.

“I don’t know where I’m getting the strength to keep going.
But thank God, I’ve done it,
and I’ll keep doing it.”

She then added: “con el favor de Dios”
— or “God willing.”

⭐️‘Where were you in 2025?’

The volunteer work has weighed heavily on the Luhmann family, Audrey said.

She worries about the relationship between her teenage sons and law enforcement,
-- especially after repeatedly bearing witness to dramatic arrests of immigrants and protesters.

“There have been times where my sons have been in tears,” she said.

“I’m having to process in real time with my teenage kids the fact that they are watching absolute lawlessness and brutality and violence and
cruelty
and no one’s coming to stop it.”

It’s been hard on Audrey, too.

She recalled a moment when another one of her children,
a 13-year-old,
jumped in the car with Sam and Ben to investigate potential ICE activity
at a nearby apartment complex,
knowing that kids who live there also attend the 13-year-old’s school.

“This advocacy as a family has been intense,” Audrey said.

“But I also feel like, someday, my kids are going to grow up and they’re going to have children.

And at some point they’re going to say,
‘Grandma, where were you in 2025?

Where were my parents in 2025?’

I want to be able to tell them:
‘My family stood up.’”

For Audrey and most of the Luhmann family,
the Christian faith doesn’t give them any other choice.

“What would Jesus do if he were seeing and witnessing an arrest?” she said.

“What would he do if it were his neighbor taken?”

#Luhmanns #rapidresponse

https://religionnews.com/2025/11/25/how-one-conservative-christian-family-is-pushing-back-against-ice/