On March 8, 2026, Minnesotans active in the fight against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) siege in their state traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join a commemoration of the day in 1965 known as “Bloody Sunday.” On March 7, 1965, police — some on horseback and armed with Billy clubs and tear gas — attached civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted a 50-mile march to the state capital of Montgomery. The decision by the Minnesota Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) to take 100 immigrant rights leaders from the upper Midwest to Selma is a sign of the connections being made as a result of the fight against the ICE “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota since the beginning of this year. Those who mobilized for over three months to defend immigrant communities are looking for lessons of the past that can help strengthen their struggle. They are making connections with others involved in the struggle for social justice — today’s activists and veterans of past resistance.