India, Jan. 25 -- Faced with heightened anti-immigration vigilance and increased cases of detentions in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents, volunteers are teaming up to provide safe homes for children who are vulnerable on account of their parents' detentions.

Several residents of the Twin Cities are stepping up to help immigrants as people are appalled by the coercive tactics adopted by the federal agents as they crackdown on immigrants, the Associated Press reported.

More than 2,000 federal agents are reportedly out in Minneapolis-St. Paul looking for immigrants to detain them as the US Department of Homeland Security reports more than 3,000 arrests since early December. Residents have responded to the brutal crackdown with pro...