{"id":926685,"date":"2026-08-12T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/minnesota-businessman-gives-29-million-to-immigrants-for-rent-after-ice-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:16:23","slug":"minnesota-businessman-gives-29-million-to-immigrants-for-rent-after-ice-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/minnesota-businessman-gives-29-million-to-immigrants-for-rent-after-ice-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota: Businessman Gives $29 Million to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Biotech entrepreneur John Wilson has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrant families after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Wilson and others stepped in after Operation Metro Surge saw many illegals detained and deported, the Minnesota Star Tribune<\/em> reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n

The outlet said<\/a> some immigrant households were struggling to pay their bills since the people they depended on to bring in money were gone:<\/p>\n

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Wilson\u2019s company, Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, is a leader in cell and gene therapy and is valued at nearly $1 billion. In 2023, Wilson sold a nearly 20% stake in the company for $257 million and created the Wilson Foundation, which had about $80 million in cash as of earlier this year.<\/p>\n

He estimates his foundation has made about 20,000 rent payments, and is continuing to give away about $1 million per week. He\u2019s able to get money out quicker to people in need and with no restrictions like government aid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is important to highlight the fact that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials targeted<\/a> illegal aliens that included convicted pedophiles, rapists, and violent offenders during the Minnesota operation. Those individuals, officials said, were allowed to roam the streets due to the leftist-run state\u2019s sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n

Operation Metro Surge also saw the arrests<\/a> of illegals convicted of drunk driving, drug trafficking, burglary, murder<\/a>, and domestic abuse, according to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n

The outlet also reported<\/a> recently that \u201cMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) offered a bizarre response to the Trump administration deporting an illegal immigrant child molester he tried to protect, asking if it actually improved the idea that \u2018we can\u2019t all be judged by our worst day.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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In March, Democrat lawmakers in Minnesota introduced<\/a> a bill for a $40 million emergency rental assistance fund to shield people from eviction, Fox 9 reported.<\/p>\n

When sharing his concerns about the move, Minnesota state Sen. Steve Drazkowski (R) said, \u201cThis bill will provide, in Hennepin County, over $7,000 to households, some of which are very likely illegal aliens because I don\u2019t think ICE was able to scoop up all the illegal aliens in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Amy Furr
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Biotech entrepreneur John Wilson has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrant families after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota. Wilson and others stepped in after Operation Metro Surge saw many illegals detained and deported, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported Sunday. The outlet said some immigrant households were struggling to pay their bills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28956,22116],"tags":[43024,6820],"class_list":["post-926685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-businessman","category-minnesota","tag-businessman","tag-minnesota"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}