A ‘Terrifying Line Is Being Crossed,’ Warns #Minneapolis Mayor as More ICE Horror Stories Emerge
In an interview with the New York Times, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described “marauding gangs of guys just walking down the street indiscriminately picking people up.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mayor-jacob-frey-interview

from #CommonDreams
Jan. 31, 2026

According to a Saturday report in the #NYT, concern over #ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many #Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and #US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.

CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up #refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for #deportation.

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#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#immigration #immigrants
#USA #USpol #politics #Trump #news

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a #Minnesota hospital
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospitals-32cd5ca61d495e155d43b7cfd5e563b9

from #TheAssociatedPress #AP #APNews
Updated 10:12 AM EST, January 31, 2026

Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal #immigration officers when they arrived at a #Minneapolis hospital with a #Mexican #immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.

#ICE agents initially claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old’s brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.

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Administration Social Media Posts Echo #WhiteSupremacist Messaging
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity have included images, slogans and even a song used by the #WhiteNationalist right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/white-supremacy-trump-administration-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.vvzT.h56e9gsx9xPC

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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The posts have referred to neo-#Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing and QAnon conspiracies, mused about deporting nearly a third of the #US population, and promoted lyrics from an anthem bellowed by the far-right militants of the Proud Boys.

Their authors are not on society’s fringe. They are in the offices of the White House and the departments of Homeland Security and Labor, using official government accounts.

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Bruce Springsteen Releases Anti-ICE Protest Song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
https://world-outlook.com/2026/01/29/bruce-springsteen-releases-anti-ice-protest-song-streets-of-minneapolis/

from #WorldOutlook
January 29, 2026

We publish below the lyrics of a new song #BruceSpingsteen released on January 28, 2026. The Boss, as the singer is known, released “Streets of #Minneapolis” as part of a protest movement across the United States demanding an end to the terror unleashed by the Trump administration through its #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement (#ICE) and #BorderPatrol thugs against undocumented immigrants and all working people.

We also publish an article first released by National Public Radio (NPR) News announcing the song’s debut.

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#news

ICE Murders 2nd Minneapolis Volunteer Observer in Cold Blood
Outrage, #Protests Against Terror by Federal Gov’t Spread in Minnesota
https://world-outlook.com/2026/01/26/ice-murders-2nd-minneapolis-volunteer-observer-in-cold-blood/

[written by activists in #Minneapolis]
from #WorldOutlook
Jan. 26, 2026

#MINNEAPOLIS, #Minnesota, January 25, 2026 — Tens of thousands of protesters, as many as 50,000 by some estimates, marched through the streets of this city on January 23. It was a historic day of peaceful, often buoyant show of resistance against the federal govt's crackdown on #immigrant workers and efforts to intimidate anyone protesting this terroristic invasion across the state.

The promise of a calm Saturday disappeared shortly after 9 a.m. the next morning, January 24. That is when half a dozen #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement (#ICE) and #BorderPatrol agents held down #AlexPretti and pumped 10 bullets into his body, killing him in cold blood.

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Amid Funding Fight, #BernieSanders Says Unmask ICE, Repeal $75 Billion Giveaway, and More
“ICE is out of control, ignoring the law and our Constitution. Congress must vote NO on any additional funding for DHS,” the senator argued as House progressives issued similar demands.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/funding-for-dhs

[article gives a full round-up of various demands of Congressional Democrats.]

from#CommonDreams
Jan 26, 2026

The senator’s demands largely align with the reported demands of Senate Democrats, with whom he caucuses, as well as those of House progressives.

“Senate Democrats will not allow the current DHS funding bill to move forward,” the chamber’s minority leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), said in a Monday statement. “Senate Republicans have seen the same horrific footage that all Americans have watched of the blatant abuses of Americans by #ICE in Minnesota.”

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CBP Agent Guns Down #Minneapolis Nurse: Video Analysis
Breakdown of video obtained by #DropSiteNews showing #CBP’s killing of #AlexJeffreyPretti on Saturday.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/customs-border-patrol-agent-kills-minneapolis-nurse-video-analysis

Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim
Jan 24, 2026

Close-up video footage, obtained by Drop Site, shows one agent push a person to the ground and then deploy a chemical irritant twice on the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed. Around 8 agents then swarm and wrestle him to the ground. One of the officers then visibly unholstered his gun and fired multiple close-range gunshots at Pretti, a #Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer. There are 10 gunshots heard in all—at least five of them were fired at Pretti from a distance, while the person holding the camera shouts, “What the fuck did you just do?”

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#Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
Videos analyzed by #NYT appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an ICU nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.lvPU.7lp0lQ8GZPLs&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes
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Jan. 26, 2026

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said it had joined #Minnesota state officials in filing a federal lawsuit on Saturday night “seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.”

John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the #DHS in the first #Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. “I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,” he wrote on social media.

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Demonstrators Flood Minneapolis Streets as Hundreds of Businesses Close to Protest #ICE
Thousands of protesters shut down streets to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minnesota-businesses-protest-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.0qUf.ucdTcBcd2nM6&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Jan. 23, 2026

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of #Minneapolis-St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors, and workers and students stayed home to demand an end to the sweeping #immigration crackdown that has roiled the #TwinCities for weeks.

The action on Friday, which unfolded in subzero temperatures, was the most widespread and organized demonstration since federal agents arrived more than six weeks ago. It was aimed at pressuring the federal government to pull thousands of its agents from the streets.

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#news

Videos Showing Aggressive #ICE Tactics in #Minnesota Fuel a Backlash
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minnesota-ice-violence-tactics-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1A.2wZF.uJGByazPOp3U&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Jan. 24, 2026

Federal #immigration agents have broken windows and dragged occupants out of their vehicles. They have forcefully tackled people to the ground. They have pushed and shoved protesters, and deployed pepper spray directly in their faces.

For weeks, residents have documented the scenes unfolding as federal agents pursue President #Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The videos have circulated widely and intensified outrage and fear among many Minnesotans.

Marty Kurcias, 76, who was protesting at the airport on Friday, said the aggressive treatment he has seen of Minnesotans was jarring. “It can’t go on like this,” he said. “We don’t abide by cruelty or violence.”

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#news

Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minneapolis-man-pepper-sprayed-pinned-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1A.ZI7r.tpCjanigmfDX&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Jan. 23, 2026

There was the American citizen dragged out of his home in subzero weather in his underwear. And the detention of a 5-year-old boy wearing a Spider-Man backpack and a hat with floppy ears drew outrage from school officials.

But photos of a #BorderPatrol agent squirting pepper spray in the face of a man who was being pinned down by fellow officers on Wednesday searingly captured why the ongoing #immigration operation has been met with furious resistance on the streets of #Minneapolis.

“No one looking at this image can seriously claim this is about public safety,” said Mayor Jacob Frey.... “It should alarm every American because if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.”

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#news

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions
Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Sat 17 Jan 2026 08.00 EST

Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti- #ICE #protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.

Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a homeland security agent shoot Kaden Rummler, 21, in the face with a less-lethal munition at a distance of only a few feet. Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.

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In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.U8r5.xd1K-UIIEQuJ&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Opinion - Lydia Polgreen
Jan. 19, 2026

Like many Americans, I had watched the video of the killing of #ReneeGood by an #ICE officer on a residential street in #Minneapolis with horror and sorrow. From afar, this tragic and possibly criminal act of violence could plausibly be seen as incidental to President Trump’s mission to deport #undocumented people from the country. But when I landed in Minneapolis on Monday and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against #Trump’s dark vision of America.

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#news

March on Jan. 23 - ICE Out of #Minnesota
[Posted on FB]

https://www.iceoutnowmn.com

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@progressivepolitics

Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues [with photos]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/students-walk-out-decry-ice-as-surge-continues

from#MPRNews
Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles
January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

h/t: world-outlook.com

Hundreds of #TwinCities #HighSchool #students walked out of school Monday to #protest federal #immigration enforcement in #Minnesota, and some school leaders in the region are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism with families fearing being caught up in #US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

An estimated 500 high school students walked out of Roseville High School Monday morning, walking from their school, around the parking lot and onto a bridge over Minnesota Highway 36 in Roseville.

#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendStudentProtesters
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#USA #USpol #politics #Trump
#news

Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide
In Photos

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/ice-shooting-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.EYcB.-YAgkJx4T9rW&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Jan. 10, 2026

Mounting outrage over an ICE agent’s killing of a woman in #Minneapolis spilled into streets across the country on Saturday, as crowds of protesters mobilized against what they called the excesses of the #Trump administration’s mass #deportation campaign.

The “#IceOutForGood” campaign held #demonstrations in small towns and major cities, including some that have been central targets of President Trump’s #immigration crackdown. The protests came three days after an #ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen at the wheel of a car, during an encounter in South Minneapolis.

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#news

Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment #Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Hours before it was set to air last night, #CBSNews executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global #TV app received it prior to broadcast.

https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment
[link to video near bottom of article]

Yashar Ali
Dec 22, 2025

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Trump-Appointed Judge Flays #ICE Over Conditions in Long Island Lockup

A detainee and eight others were held in a tiny room with an open toilet in freezing, filthy conditions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyregion/judge-ice-detention-long-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.JgeL.bF4mfZNPFBsS&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Dec. 19, 2025, 3:00 a.m. ET

“After nearly 35 years of experience with federal law enforcement in this judicial district, encompassing service as a prosecutor and a judge, I have never encountered anything like this,” Judge Brown, who was appointed by President #Trump in 2019, wrote.

The judge also wrote that #Immigration and Customs Enforcement had presented false information about Mr. Clarke’s arrest and had ignored court orders by failing to present him for a hearing and provide photographs of the cell. He questioned why the agency should not be held in contempt.

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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests

Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMT

At a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.

The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.

Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.

#FreePalestine
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Minnesotans Defend #Somali Community, #Immigrant Workers
Protesters Stand Up to #Trump Administration’s Dehumanizing Bigotry

https://world-outlook.com/2025/12/11/minnesotans-defend-somali-community-immigrant-workers/

from #WorldOutlook
December 11, 2025

#SEIU Local 26 and UNITE HERE Local 17 organized the protest, joined by airport #workers wearing Airport Workers United hats and community supporters. Additional co-sponsors included Jewish Community Action, #Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance, the interfaith group ISAIAH, SEIU MN State Council, Indivisible Twin Cities, Women’s March Minnesota, Minnesota AFL-CIO, Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, and 50501: Minnesota.

The crowd marched from the terminal to the offices of Signature Aviation — a private aviation terminal used by some private charter planes for #deportation flights.

#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#solidarity
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#WorkersRights #Unions #Labor #LaborUnions
#immigration #ICE
#USA #US #USpol #politics
#news