Toytles: Leaf Raking, my strategic leaf-raking business simulation game, is in the No ICE in Minnesota bundle on itch.io!
Get it and over 1,400 other games, tools, books, comics, and soundtracks today!
We created this bundle to raise funds for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in response to the Trump administration sending ICE agents to the Minneapolis area and the reckless murder of an innocent people by ICE agents. ILCM provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. They also work to educate the community about immigration matters and advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants. ILCM provides services based on capacity and has a generally high demand for services. The more we are able to fundraise, the more people they will be able to assist.
You are probably aware that the United States, which is supposed to be a beacon of freedom in the world, is dealing with homegrown authoritarianism, with masked secret police kidnapping and killing people.
As a kid, I grew up believing that this kind of stuff happened in other countries. After all, we had due process, right? Innocent until proven guilty, judged by a jury of your peers, and all that? Jackbooted thugs on a power trip executing people in the street is something I believed happened in less-free parts of the world run by cruel dictators with no regard for the humanity of their people.
Now frankly, I have since realized it was happening in the United States long before Minnesota got invaded by ICE. I see the people justifying ICE performing extrajudicial kidnapping and murders of immigrants and citizens, and they are the same people who justify it when police were performing extrajudicial murders of Black people, including the murders of children.
I am disappointed that we somehow grew up in the same country and somehow came to such drastically different conclusions about what it means to have rights.
Anyway, Minneapolis has been and continues to be occupied by a violent, authoritarian force, and this bundle is supporting those Minnesotans and sending a message that ICE isn’t wanted there or anywhere. I’m proud to be a small part of this effort.