Welcome to the Twin Cities Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). JACL is a national membership organization whose mission is to secure and maintain the human and civil rights of Americans victimized by injustice.
JACL derives its effectiveness through its strategically located regional offices, which serve the needs of the organization’s members and help maintain the well-being of all Americans.
In addition to its national headquarters in San Francisco, the JACL has regional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington D.C.
The Pacific Citizen, publishing news and information for and about the Asian American community since 1929, is a production of the JACL Los Angeles office.
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Get @reshare_app • @kanshaproject 🚨 Application form for the 2026 Kansha Project is NOW LIVE! 🚨 Apply today through the link in our bio! Application deadline is March 1st at 11:59pm CST 📝![]()
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📣 Calling all self-identified Japanese American/Nikkei youth (ages 18-25) from the Midwest! 📣 The Kansha Project is a JACL Chicago founded in 2011 that connects self-identified Japanese American/Nikkei youth with their identity, history, and community. This is your chance to deepen your roots and make lasting connections 🌸![]()
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Get @reshare_app • @jacl_national JACL joins the Minneapolis community and countless other communities, organizations, and individuals in mourning the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We also join in the collective outrage over their deaths at the hands of federal agents. ![]()
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We must take action. ![]()
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Visit the link in bio for the full statement and to send a message to your Senators urging them to vote NO on expanding DHS/ICE/CBP Funding.![]()
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ENDORSE THE NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN!![]()
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We need to spread this shut down as far and wide as possible. Go to nationalshutdown.us to endorse the shut down happening on January 30th! The only way for us to get justice for Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and the countless people murdered by ICE is for the shut down to go national.![]()
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NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. VOTE NO TO ICE FUNDING.
Get @reshare_app • @tsuruforsolidarity The world witnessed the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Shortly before the killing of Renee, on New Year’s Eve, an ICE agent shot and killed Keith Porter, a 43-year-old father of two in Los Angeles. Even without cameras rolling, ICE is responsible for 37 other deaths across the country in 2025—the deadliest year on record for ICE detention and enforcement. Tsuru for Solidarity honors their lives and recommits to fighting the systems responsible for their deaths.![]()
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As survivors and descendants of Japanese American wartime incarceration, we carry the lasting legacy of state violence. We understand all too well the consequences of a government that lies and creates false narratives to justify murdering detained people and those advocating for their freedom. We remind our community of the murder of James Wakasa by a guard in Topaz concentration camp, and the 7 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans murdered by the state while incarcerated by the U.S. government during WWII. Just as ICE is attempting to frame Renee’s murder as “unavoidable,” Wakasa’s murder was once dismissed as “justifiable military action.”![]()
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We are inspired by the mobilization Renee’s death has sparked and offer our love and support to the people of Minneapolis. And we know that mobilization alone is not enough; the resilience of our movement requires all of us to organize for change. We understand, and feel with you, the multitude of feelings in reaction to the violence we have seen—rage, sadness, confusion, numbness. In 1943, over 2,000 prisoners of the WWII Topaz Concentration Camp defiantly gathered in a memorial for James Wakasa days after his death. Today we call upon our community to respond to deaths at the hands of ICE with equal fervor and force.![]()
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Now is the time to rise & resist, together.![]()
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#AbolishICE #FreeThemAll #StopRepeatingHistory
Get @reshare_app • @open.studio.sewing We’ll be closed on Friday, January 23rd in solidarity with our community and our immigrant neighbors. ICE out now. ![]()
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More information on the general strike at iceoutnowmn.com
"Janet Carlson, of Lake Elmo, said her family was forcibly removed by the Army in Seattle, Wash., in April of 1942 and incarcerated in Hunt, Idaho, in the Minidoka concentration camp.![]()
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'Today’s ICE actions bring all kinds of memories for me, even though I was not alive at the time,” she said. “These people were incarcerated without due process for two years, so this seems very similar.'![]()
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Carlson expressed concerns about the safety of the students at schools in the area of the possible detention center and said immigrants are key to the county’s economic development."![]()
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Possible Woodbury ICE detention center draws Washington County Board crowd, condemnation
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Washington County Board Chair Karla Bigham said no one on the five-member county board is in favor of an ICE detention center.