MN ICE Watch Jan. 19-22: Daily Updates on Trump’s Authoritarian Invasion

Having trouble keeping up with the fascist Trump administration's "largest ever" wave of immigration stormtroopers that continues to terrorize Minnesota? You're not alone. The rolling updates below will provide nugget-sized intel/links/embeds amid this dizzyingly depressing news cycle, hopefully making you feel a little better-informed and/or connected to your community. As always, feel free to contribute in the comments. Updates will stop Thursday because our shop is observing Friday's "ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom."

THURSDAY 1.22

While you’ll only hear tsk-tsking from our pliant local biz columnists (see below), Labor Notes wonders if, after 50 years of unprecedented wealth siphoning from the 99% to the 1%, perhaps a general strike makes a whole lotta sense in 2026. “Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are talking about a general strike,” Alex Han writes. 

Speaking of radicalized economic populism in the face of authoritarianism: Even TV news is shaking off the chains of consent manufacturing. Here are KARE 11’s Jana Shortal and Kelly Dietz discussing whether everything the Department of Homeland Security tells you is a lie… 

And speaking of brazen lies from the state! If you read one news story today, make it this dynamite scoop from Stribbers Jeff Day and Liz Sawyer. Remember that alleged north Minneapolis broom and/or shovel attack, the one that followed a car chase on I-94, and ultimately resulted in 34-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis getting shot in the leg? A sworn affidavit from FBI Special Agent Timothy Schanz aligns with eyewitness accounts, and not the repeated DHS narrative, asserting the shooting of Sosa-Celis wasn’t related to a traffic stop at all. The lies from the feds don’t stop there—click this gift link.   

Will Minnesota serve as the flashpoint for a second U.S. civil war? “High-leve simulations” conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania suggest: yes. Read more via The Guardian.

ICE is asserting that its agents have the authority to enter your home without a judge's warrant, according to an internal memo obtained Wednesday by the Associated Press. That'd mark "a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches."

According to this Verge piece from Sarah Jeong, a horde of riled up attorneys general are “just as angry about the country as, say, the average Bluesky poster.” That’s a lotta anger! Among them is Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. At a recent town hall meeting in Portland, Oregon, he and his colleagues discussed how they’ve teamed up and prepared to fight the good fight in courts, filing 70-something lawsuits so far with cases ranging from fighting for withheld federal funds to stopping National Guard deployment.

Ellison, who at one point held up a frog hat for the crowd, defended state rights to investigate and prosecute Jonathan Ross in the killing of Renee Good, invoking both the FBI/Ruby Ridge standoff of 1992 (where the state of Idaho prosecuted an FBI agent in the killing of a civilian) and the Boston Massacre of 1770.  “We will not save our country in a courtroom,” Ellison later warned. “We have to fight them in a courtroom. We absolutely have to."

ICE stormtroopers simply need “bathroom breaks,” yet they’re being inconvenienced by “hostile crowds,” brays this whining post from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Won’t someone please think of the menacing piss boys! 

🫡 our hero postal workers.

Prominent Twin Cities lawyer/activist Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested for "organizing the coordinated attack" on St. Paul's Cities Church, according to a tweet from U.S. AG Pam Bondi. “WE WILL PROTECT OUR HOUSES OF WORSHIP 🙏🏻,” Bondi tweet-shouts while announcing a second arrestee, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is demanding Armstrong be released, calling the arrest “a gross abuse of power.” Fox 9 has more details. 

Did the White House alter images of Armstrong being arrested? KARE 11 investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe seems seems to think so:

Democrats "appear to have settled on is a typical suite of pseudo-reforms, cosmetic PR and HR tweaks, body-worn cameras, and more money for 'training,' all of which will do nothing to meaningfully alter the calculus for the Trump White House or ICE," reporter/Citations Needed co-host Adam Johnson argues in the Real News Network.

Extra! Extra! Experts tell Sahan Journal that tear gas is really bad for you, particularly if you're a child. “There are well documented, long term and really devastating impacts including blindness, glaucoma, respiratory failure—and in large amounts, obviously, death," Asha Hassan, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, tells reporter Andrew Hazzard.

Elsewhere on the expert-consultation beat: The Cut explores whether SS-aping Border Patrol pipsqueak Greg Bovino is, from a fashion perspective, really engaging in "Nazi cosplay." The answer won't surprise you!

Jesus, this lede from Sahan Journal’s Becky Z. Dernbach…

A small stuffed turtle, a water bottle, and a blanket fill 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos’ cubby. A gray winter hat hangs from his hook. A worksheet to help him trace the letter W waits for him at his desk. But it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet. Liam, a prekindergartener at Columbia Heights’ Valley View Elementary, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Tuesday along with his father as the two returned home from school. The prekindergartener and his father are now in ICE custody, likely at a family detention center in Texas, said Marc Prokosch, a lawyer for the family.

National Public Radio has the story of a 12-year-old Minneapolis girl who got her period while in hiding, and the subsequent “complex underground operation” to care for her that followed. “Help me, please. My daughter is bleeding a lot. She's alone in the house," her father reportedly pleaded as the neighborhood stealthily sprang into action.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good three times and grazed her with a fourth bullet, according to an autopsy commissioned by Good's family. Details from the report, which was released Wednesday, are available here. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office has yet to release its findings.

Local food shelf volunteers are reportedly being stalked by immigration agents, KARE 11 reports. 

Radley Balko wrote the 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, and on Wednesday he wrote in the Times that: 

The lies this administration is telling about Ms. [Renee] Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power...  This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism.

WEDNESDAY 1.21

No words.

The “Worst Person You Know” meme is getting a workout this week. On Tuesday, law enforcement officials—you know, the racial profiling people—expressed horror at accusations of immigration agents racially profiling undercover cops (see below), and that same day the Minnesota Department of Corrections—you know, the prison-industrial complex people—questioned the Department of Homeland Security’s truthfulness. "Here we are, trying to work together and collaborate, and yet this information's being put out that's just fundamentally false," Commissioner Paul Schnell said of DHS claims that undocumented criminals are being released in vast numbers from state prisons. 

A coalition of hundreds of faith groups held a press conference Tuesday demanding ICE take a hike. "ICE, you may go in peace. You surely couldn't stay in peace, and so we are asking that you leave in peace," Minister JaNaé Bates Imari, co-executive director of ISAIAH, told reporters. Those clergy members are encouraging folks to participate in Friday’s “Day of Truth & Freedom”... or is it Friday’s “ICE Out of MN”? In any event, don’t work, go to school, or spend money—withholding this stuff is the only weapon we proles got. 

File under: aww. Chicagoans are sending 150,000 whistles to ICE-infested cities, including the Twin Cities. 

File under: STFU. Department of Homeland Security social accounts are whining "THEY’RE EVEN GOING AFTER THE DOGS!" Apparently, if we're to believe DHS, a worker at a dog kennel housing Border Patrol pups wrote "ICE OUT" on a feeding chart. The K-9 cops appear unharmed; immigration agents, meanwhile, continue to terrorize, kill, and jail human Minnesotans. Also, sorry, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem INFAMOUSLY MURDERED HER OWN DOG.

Below, you'll find video of residents clashing with Border Patrol Wednesday morning outside of the Speedway station at 60th & Portland in south Minneapolis, courtesy of reporter Amanda Moore. Immigration agents pulled up to three Speedway stations around Minneapolis today, Bring Me the News reports.

Strib columnist Evan Ramstad, who once angrily ranted at an ex-City Pages/current Racket worker for advocating for higher union wages, spent hundreds of words shitting on Friday's "ICE Out of Minnesota Day of Truth & Freedom." "We don’t need to hurt Minnesota’s economy and businesses," he concludes, never mind the fact hundreds of small businesses—including Racket—are joining and promoting the action. A corporate toady ex-business reporter unwilling or unable to grasp the power of solidarity against the ruling class? Stop the presses. Same deal with this cynical Twin Cities Business screed from Adam Platt that sneers at everyone to his left ("The socialist solution to everything seems to be don’t go to work"), includes one actual fact/figure (we learn from "anecdotal conversations"), double-dips its insults ("performative" twice), and dutifully bows to the apparently vanishing demo that reads T.C. Biz ("rich Minnesota families" who "sustain us all in good jobs and Lake Woebegon [sic] neighborhoods"). Also it's Greg Bovino—not Dan.

The Pentagon just ordered more active-duty Army soldiers, these ones from North Carolina's Fort Bragg, to prepare for possible deployment into Minneapolis, three "people familiar with the matter" tell MS NOW—aka the former MSNBC.

Ent-like, our trees are rising up to fight ICE... according to one "degreed meteorologist" who seems to be referring to the phenomenon of "frost cracking."

Federal officials say Operation Metro Surge is purging Minnesota of “violent assailants, domestic abusers, and drug traffickers.” Just yesterday itty-bitty wannabe general Greg Bovino asked, confoundingly, "Think about it just for a second… what the rape of a child actually entails,” while President Trump referred to Minnesota detainees as “rough characters.”

So who, exactly, is ICE abducting off our streets? In an attempt to verify those claims, Stribbers Christopher Magan and Jeff Hargarten reviewed thousands of documents related to the 3,000ish immigrants who’ve been arrested this month. They discovered only 240 names have been released, and that 80% of those individuals appear on the DHS “worst of the worst” list—that’s about 7% of 3K. Here’s a gift link to review all their number-crunching. 

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower court's order Wednesday that restricted federal immigration agents using force against peaceful protesters. "Tear gas and other tactics against peaceful demonstrators and observers" are back on the menu, Reuters reports. ICE seems to have gotten the memo.

You have the watch, neighborhood fob army 🫡

Reporter Madison McVan continues her hot streak with a look at how pissed-off Minnesotans are rejecting our current federal occupation. "It’s clear on the ground that in the deep-blue Twin Cities, federal agents—3,000 strong—are far outnumbered by the people who want them out," she writes. Restaurants, schools, churches, Will freakin' Stancil—ICE is making plenty of enemies out of everyday people who refuse to submit.   

At the risk of editorializing, we're dealing with irredeemable pieces of shit:

Today, popular New York Times podcast The Daily visits Minneapolis. Their team "explains why the city has become ground zero in the fight over the government’s deportation strategy," and we can't speak to their findings on account of having not listened yet.

Another bad-faith influencer oaf falls victim to the ol’ Walmart-in-Minneapolis gotcha:

More nice work from tech magazine WIRED, which published an oral historyish essay highlighting the voices of 10 Minnesotans. It’s a heavy read. Recalls Brandon Sigüenza, a 32-year-old ICE observer who was previously detained: “At one point, one [agent] said to my friend: ‘You need to stop. You need to stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.’”

Do hotels have a constitutional obligation to deny sleepy and stupid ICE agents lodging? Imani Gandy explores that question in this Rewire News Group opinion piece. 

Good stuff from Saturday Night Live rookie Tommy Brennan, a native of St. Paul sticking up for his state on last week’s “Weekend Update.” (Tommy, make your publicists respond to our multiple RacketCast appearance requests!) The bit was reportedly cut for time during the live broadcast. Hm... “They still cut out how long/much we were clapping,” reads the top-voted comment from the SNL subreddit. “I think that’s why they cut it in case the live audience was clapping for 5 minutes too lol.” 

TUESDAY 1.20

We’ve got more on the St. Paul man who ICE agents dragged from his home Sunday, half-naked in the cold. ChongLy Scott Thao is a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Katelyn Vue reports for Sahan Journal. “I was scared, so I didn’t know what was going on. I thought maybe they got the wrong person, and then they just told me to come out there and handcuffed me,” Thao tells Sahan. He didn’t receive an apology from immigration officers after being detained for an hour in a car.

Newly elected St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her says her mother-in-law was friends with Thao’s mom in Laos. “ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing,” the mayor posted to social media. “They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone and everyone in their path. It is unacceptable and un-American.”

There's additional valuable reporting on this incident over at The Handbasket; and there's this GoFundMe set up to support Thao's family "After ICE Raid Trauma."

WIRED uncovered internal ICE documents that detail $20 to $50 million plans for a privately run Upper Midwest jail network capable of transferring detainees “within a 400-mile radius" in and around Minnesota.

There’s a good chance your favorite conservative cartoonist is “Stan Kelly,” the name Ward Sutton draws under for The Onion. You may know him from the window-peering guy labeled “Sickos.” In an exaggerated version of the style of bizarro conspiracist Ben Garrison and other right-wing hacks—a style that would seem to be beyond parody—Sutton labels everyone and everything he can while his alter ego Kelly snickers in the corner of each drawing.

Kelly’s most recent cartoon is titled “To Noem Is To Love ’Em,” and it’s populated by our cosmetically damaged DHS Secretary and multiple ICE thugs who are tagged “Quick Learners,” “Go-Getters,” and “Self-Starters.” But the real star is a nefarious woman being pinned down and pepper sprayed, ID’d as “Sinister Minnesotans” and carrying “Suspicious Hot Dish.”

All we can say to that is, "Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!"

Disturbing tidbit via the Wall Street Journal...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers here and elsewhere are under pressure from daily arrest quotas that leadership has set at 3,000 a day across the country—the number it would take to reach one million arrests in a year, according to ICE officials familiar with the matter. Though ICE has never come close to meeting that daily goal, officers are rewarded for making arrests, even if the immigrants they take in are later released. In Minneapolis, those officers are walking and driving through the largely residential city looking for people to arrest—and coming into close contact with angry and organized residents. That proximity helps explain why federal agents are clashing more with locals here than anywhere else.

We keep hearing it: How do I help? Local author Naomi Kritzer has assembled a wonderful trove of resources.

When ICE thugs stormed the grounds of Minneapolis's Roosevelt High School earlier this month, junior Lila Dominguez was hard at work in the basement. The editor-in-chief of the student-run Roosevelt Standard was busy writing an anti-ICE editorial for her digital newspaper. Dominguez reflected on that harrowing day with The Guardian, telling the U.K. newspaper, “I was kind of pacing around. My hands were really shaky. I was just very overstimulated, and not really sure what to do in that moment for the people that I was with, or the people outside or my family.” Undeterred, the fearless teen journalist published her piece that same day: "ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis."

WaPo sent three reporters to document, hour by hour, a single day in our historically besieged metro with "a population about one-quarter the size of Chicago and less than one-fifth the size of Los Angeles." (Thanks, guys.)

We've got two how-we-feeling-about-ICE reports outta central Minnesota, with the Strib analyzing conflicting feelings in Willmar, where immigrants and conservatives live side by side, and Sahan Journal looking at that same dichotomy in St. Cloud. Not everyone's beliefs can be neatly categorized. “I’m wholesale pissed off,” Kandiyohi County resident Peter Iversen says from inside a cafe. “I think this country is heading right to revolution. They’re beating up people on the streets. This isn’t the country I served in the Army for.”

Local law enforcement leaders are fed up with the unruly, uncooperative, and let's go ahead and say unlegal actions of federal immigration agents, Joey Peters reports for Sahan Journal. In particular: the alleged racial profiling of off-duty officers. “If it’s happening to our officers, it pains me to think how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day. It has to stop," Brooklyn Park PD Chief Mark Bruley told reporters Tuesday. (Cops learning about the downsides to racial profiling—what a world.)

“PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS! We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she of dog-murdering infamy, shouted at Twitter users Monday.  

In other Noem-related nonsense: This is not what doxxing means!

Are Department of Homeland Security officials constantly lying? Consider the case of Castaneda Mondragon, admitted to HCMC after suffering a “catastrophic” and “life-threatening” head injury while in ICE custody, according to this report from Sahan Journal’s Karina Pross. According to the agents who brought Mondragon in, he was “laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” As one does. There’s a good reason Racket does not quote ICE agents or DHS officials or other Trump admin sources to “balance” a story: We don’t believe them.

Being a combat-wounded U.S. Army vet won’t spare you from ICE’s seemingly indiscriminate wrath: After being scooped off the Minneapolis sidewalk near 34th & Park, William Vermie was held in detention for eight hours. “They did offer bathroom breaks and water breaks, and I did ask for a band-aid and they gave it to me. But I’d rather have a lawyer than a band-aid when I’m being detained,” the soldier tells KARE 11’s Morgan Wolfe.

Speaking of the military! Recruiters are taking advantage of ICE’s ongoing rampage to boost numbers, CNN reports. “All of you have heard about how ICE and how they are taking people without any consideration,” reads a grotesque recruitment email sent to Twin Cities high schoolers. “If you are born here and you are 17yrs old, and in a position, like many, where your parents may not be documented. They need you to help!” Another recruiter told CNN that this tactic is "intimidating," "predatory," and "unethical." In other words, pretty consistent with current U.S. foreign and domestic policy. 

Wee little Border Patrol tyrant Gregory Bovino told reporters Tuesday that ICE operations in Minnesota are "legal, ethical, and moral." The real problem? "Collusion and corruption between elected officials and these anarchists." Well, that clears that up!

ICE's facial recognition app—Mobile Fortify, the "definitive" way agents determine someone's immigration status—doesn't work, 404 Media reports.

The Department of Homeland Security is relying on glitchy AI programs to scan the résumés of wannabe immigration officers—what could possibly go wrong? Plenty, NBC News reports. Some freshly minted ICE goons are being deployed into the field without proper training due to scanning errors that fast-tracked applicants who had "no experience in any local police or federal law enforcement force," according to one official. Awesome.

What the fuck, man...

Reporter Peter Cox discovered that ICE is taking credit for nabbing the already incarcerated. "MPR News examined one of the lists shared by DHS officials on Monday, Jan. 12," he writes, "and found that most of the people on the list had been immediately transferred to ICE custody at the end of time served in Minnesota prisons."

The Strib's Chris Riemenschneider has a nice double profile of Brass Solidarity and Singing Resistance, two Twin Cities musical groups who've been organizing large-scale protest singalongs. “We’ve played in front of a lot of law enforcement agents, and I have to say ICE is genuinely scary,” reports Daniel Goldschmidt of Brass Solidarity. "We operate on the ethos that joy is resistance.”

It’s being billed as the Day of Truth and Freedom because terms like “general strike” and “work stoppage” have very specific legal meanings. But… c’mon: Labor, faith, and community leaders are urging all Minnesotans to avoid work, school, and shopping this Friday to protest Operation Metro Surge. (Labor Notes has a deep-dive on the nuts/bolts of the strike-like initiative.) Bring Me the News has been keeping track of participating businesses and groups, all of which you can peruse via this mega-thread. You'll see bars, restaurants, bike shops, coffee shops, weed shops, music shops... it's, yes, an inspiring display of solidarity. You won't find Racket on BMTN's roundup, but lord knows we're not clocking in Friday. Our upcoming episode of RacketCast, due out Thursday, will feature two local labor leaders discussing the need for this gut punch to capital.

Gotta love our postal workers! Workday Magazine was on the scene Sunday as 200+ members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9 and supporters marched down Minneapolis's Lake Street in opposition of ICE.

David Pierini of North News authored this nice profile of Pastor Victor Martinez, whose congregation at New Generation Church has dwindled as ICE raids amplify. He's planning to suspend services and, instead, focus on reimagining his church as a hub for feeding the needy. The federal immigration siege on Minnesota is causing Martinez to reconsider his outspoken conservative views. “Things change every day,” Martinez says. “I have been on the phone consistently because you never know who else in the church is next.”

What a monstrously American story: Free health care isn't even afforded anymore to those who've been kidnapped by ICE, Popular Information reports.

We gotta start using stronger words than “separate” for shit this ghoulish…

MONDAY 1.19

ICE illegally detained a St. Paul snowplow driver, according to Public Works Director Sean Kershaw. "This is a detention that never should have happened," Kershaw tells Fox 9. "He was detained by ICE purely based on his country of origin, he had every federal authorization to be here which is something we check at the city of St. Paul." You can support the worker via this GoFundMe that has already raised almost $20,000.

Jake Lang, a pardoned J6 rioter who now posts stupid far-right shit online, didn't enjoy his time in Minneapolis (see clip below). Ditto for Nick Sortor, a similar grifter/influencer.

Video: ICE drags elderly Hmong man out shirtless in the snow, then releases him.

“Well, we’re fucking close to civil war,” Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Dan Engelhart tells New York Times Opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen. “This is tyranny,” adds Minnesota AG Keith Ellison. In her sprawling dispatch, Polgreen attempts to answer why President Trump is targeting Minneapolis, of all places. Part of her conclusion is inspiring: "The exceptionally broad solidarity I saw across the Twin Cities is emblematic of the qualities that have made Minnesota such an irritant to Trump."

American Indian Movement patrols are back in Minneapolis, ICT reports. Here's activist/historian Heather Bruegl:

One of the first acts that AIM did when they were forming was patrolling the streets and making sure that if their community members were stopped or pulled over by the police, that their rights were being followed, like, you know, "Hey, you have the right to this, you have the right to that." And we see that now happening again [because] people’s rights are being violated. We see Indigenous folks, tribal members being detained. It’s important that groups like AIM and other groups are coming out again, working in community and making sure that we’re protecting each other.

Jairo Pitalasig is working construction while he finishes his senior year at Minneapolis's North High School, a double-duty load he takes on to support his asylum-seeking family in Ecuador and cancer-stricken dad. Last week ICE abducted him at work, Azhae’la Hanson and Melody Hoffmann report for North News, and now he's awaiting deportation at a detainment camp in El Paso, Texas. “I am worried about him, and I don’t know what is happening,” his mom tells North News.

Add Allina Health to the list of institutions failing to meet the moment. Sahan Journal reports that Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez of Mounds View was suffering from back pain, so her husband, Liborio Parral Ortiz, drove her to the ER. But ICE stopped the couple, Parral Ortiz was shipped off to El Paso, Texas, and Sanchez Dominguez was trapped at Allina’s Mercy Hospital in Fridley, where ICE agents and hospital staff refused access to visitors, including her lawyer. “ICE wouldn’t even let us sit in the lobby,” says the couple’s daughter, Shelly Parral Ortiz.

Writing for the Minnesota Reformer, freelance reporter Atra Mohamed caught up with terrified Twin Cities immigrant communities. Minneapolis shop owner Sahra Sharif, a mother of 16, expresses profound regret at having voted for President Trump. “I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she tells Mohamed.

You tax dollars at work:

Minnesota Public Radio reporters are absolutely crushing it this month. Here's further proof: Jon Collins has this report about ICE agents weaponizing fear as they rampage through Minnesota communities. “It’s corrosive. It’s confusing. It’s un-American and it's obviously dangerous,” lawyer Scott Shuchart tells MPR.

Out in Willmar, a 19-year-old high school student, Suban Noor, was released Friday by ICE after being nabbed by them Monday. Noor's family couldn't contact her all week, the Fargo Forum reports.

Hours after ABC News ran an interview with Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall, co-owner of St. Paul’s Mischief Toy Store, ICE agents swarmed the place, Ross Raihala reports for the Pioneer Press. “She delivered a very strident anti-ICE message, which we’re incredibly proud of,” her sweet dad, Dan Marshall, tells Raihala.

Speaking of ABC News: They're reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is denying some detainees at Minneapolis's Whipple Federal Building access to legal counsel. “ICE agents were physically restricting me from seeing them,” one immigration lawyer claims.

"Good’s death highlights a glaring lack of tactical skill," a retired St. Paul cop writes for MinnPost. He continues: "How much of this ICE behavior and tactics is incompetence and how much is a result of the impunity granted to the agency by the current administration? It is likely a mix."

Will 1,500 active-duty military troops from Alaska join the federal siege on Minnesota? The Army's 11th Airborne Division is on standby, NPR has learned.

Looking for an easy way to help your neighbors out? The People’s Laundry is a free, queer-run, mutual aid laundry service, which typically provides services to folks in encampments.

Popular pop-rockers Hippo Campus, Picked to Click champ Papa Mbye, and 26 BATS! are throwing an "I.C.E. OUT!" benefit concert on February 15 at First Avenue.

60 Minutes led its Sunday broadcast with a report from Minneapolis:

DOJ to investigate protest of ICE pastor’s St. Paul church. The agency has put ex-CNN newsman Don Lemon, of all people, "on notice" for covering the situation, which is never something you want to hear from the federal government about reporters doing their jobs.

North Minneapolis man Garrison Gibson, 38, told reporters Saturday that ICE agents "took trophy pictures with their personal phones" on January 11 after they broke down his door and arrested him in front of his daughter, per MPR News. The feds briefly detained him again last Friday following his initial release. Gibson has since lawyered up.

A man abducted by ICE this month in Minneapolis, 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz, died Wednesday while being held inside a federal detainment camp outside of El Paso, Texas, according to ICE.

At least man in one St. Paul neighborhood is taking up arms against ICE, journalist Amanda Moore reports for FreedomNews.TV (see clips below). The screamingly hypocritical reactions from some right-wingers are... being noted.

On Friday evening the courts issued a preliminary injunction preventing ICE officers from retaliating against demonstrators. But as this video from Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne shows, ICE continues to wild out with the pepper spray. We’re not sure bodycams are gonna fix this problem, Angie.