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Target Store Staff Are Skipping Work Over ICE’s Crackdown in Minnesota

The company is still reeling from backlash against a pullback on diversity initiatives that turned away some shoppers.

In January, Target quickly became the face of corporate America’s post-Trump-inauguration DEI rollback. — Target store workers in the area have been directed not to interfere with or block agents, and instead focus on de-escalation, according to an internal document. (Shutterstock)

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Bloomberg

22 January 2026

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Target Corp. was hoping that it would get a fresh start with a new chief executive officer, but an immigration crackdown in its hometown Minneapolis is putting the retailer back in a familiar position: confronting a political maelstrom that’s disrupting operations.

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