Rice Street community and businesses feel impact of ICE

The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been felt over the past year on Rice Street, a major thoroughfare that stretches north and south along the east edge of Roseville. But the surge of ICE agents in the last several weeks has the business and residential community along Rice Street especially on high alert. Sales are down and businesses are struggling, while many usual customers and employees are staying home.

“It’s a disaster for our local economy and it needs to stop,” Kim O’Brien, Executive Director for the Rice & Larpenteur Alliance, said in an interview. O'Brien is also an executive of the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce.