In The News: Ministry Director Meredith McKay’s Work in Minneapolis Amid ICE Unrest

Gonzaga University Ministry Director Meredith McKay joined a group of Eastern Washington clergy in traveling to Minneapolis to support the community amid civil unrest resulting from a federal immigration crackdown in the Midwestern city.

McKay wrote about the experience for the National Catholic Reporter, and the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane published a story about Inland Northwest religious community members who answered a call put out by a Minneapolis faith group called MARCH – an acronym for Multifaith, Antiracism, Change and Healing – asking for support in the wake of the shooting death of Renee Good by a U.S. immigration officer.

McKay, who grew up in the Twin Cities, joined the group flying to Minneapolis Jan. 21, and participated in training the next day before visiting neighborhoods most impacted by immigration enforcement in order to “observe and record federal officers’ activity and the community’s response,” according to the Spokesman article.

“(Good’s death) was only one small piece of what we were really seeing in the overarching narrative of our neighbors being harmed, and they’re hiding,” McKay told Spokesman reporter Cannon Barnett. “And we need to do our best to stand with them and protect them.”

Read the full Spokesman-Review article here, and find McKay's National Catholic Reporter piece linked below.