ST PAUL, Minn. — Community activists massed at the site of Tuesday's federal raid at a business in St. Paul to hold a vigil for workers detained by ICE and stage a press conference asking for answers.

The Immigration Defense Network (IDN) gathered at Bro-Tex Inc., a paper and textile company located at 830 Hampden Ave., at 9 a.m. The organization is asking authorities for clarity on Tuesday morning's raid, which ICE says involved conducting a search warrant connected to an ongoing criminal investigation. IDN wants to know how many people were detained in the Tuesday morning raid, and what type of property was confiscated.

Among the speakers at the gathering was Mayor-elect Kaohly Her, who said she was not speaking from a political platform but as someone who has lived the immigrant exp

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