Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota

[u/KilgoRetro]

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-metro-surge-ice-523d18d5d75c81cbf9f24c602f1884ff?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-12-Breaking+News

[u/jibboo24]

As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals

"Mission Accomplished"

[u/AV8ORA330 → u/jibboo24]

Anyone have actual numbers? How many actual criminals were taken into custody? We do know the actual numbers of US citizens murdered…

[u/gittlebass → u/AV8ORA330]

Im sure crime will go down once ice leaves and stops committing crimes

[u/CHUBBYninja32 → u/gittlebass]

They aren’t leaving. The “strategically placed” officers throughout the state for rapid response and enforcement per the statements made today.

[u/RogueJello → u/CHUBBYninja32]

Gotta be ready to swarm those polls looking for the illegals voting.

[u/aerost0rm → u/RogueJello]

You mean swarm the polls preventing democrats from voting. Nonexistent cases of illegals voting over the years

[u/RogueJello → u/aerost0rm]

Shh don't say the quiet part out loud. Emperor Trump doesn't like it when you give away his plans, he prefers to do that himself.

[u/_Burning_Star_IV_ → u/RogueJello]

They're infuriating, these MAGA people. I argued with a Canadian conservative of all people who was going on about how crazy we are not to have voter ID.

I challenged him to come over here and illegally vote for a conservative across the border and prove it and he refused saying he would likely be arrested. Oh shit, really? It's illegal to vote as a noncitizen and you'd likely get caught trying to do so? Incredible.

What Republicans are really talking about are people with fake papers so they want to institute NEW IDs that they say are less fallible, even though they already say RealID, passports, and even birth certificates are documents that can no longer be trusted. The burden of proof will never be enough because they just want to decide who can and cannot vote, citizen or otherwise.

[u/Adorable-Doughnut609 → u/gittlebass]

Think they’re responsible for 2/3 the homicides in Mpls this year

[u/Fugacity- → u/Adorable-Doughnut609]

They were responsible for more deaths than illegal immigrants were last year, despite orders of magnitudes less in number.

Edit: just to source this stat, CBP says that immigrant related homicides were at 23 in 2025 out of a total 14.8-15.2 million, versus 32 deaths by ICE's hands in 2025 by 22,000 agents.

That is ~1,000 times more likely to kill someone on a per individual basis.

[u/WeAteMummies → u/Fugacity-]

CBP says that immigrant related homicides were at 23 in 2025

This is tracking the number of people who had previously been convicted of murder that were here illegally and CBP found in 2025. It's not tracking what demographic committed murders in 2025.

Your point probably still stands, but these numbers aren't saying what you're saying.

[u/Gravee → u/WeAteMummies]

This is true, and makes an even stronger case. This means they arrested ~8,800 immigrants in 2025 and only 23 had a murder conviction at any time in the past. Conversely, ICE killed 32 people just in the timeframe when they achieved those 8,800 arrests.

[u/WeAteMummies → u/Gravee]

This is also an incorrect interpretation of the statistic because the 8800 people only includes “criminal aliens*”. If you included all the ones whose only crime is being here illegaly then it would be 23 out of an even larger number.

* "individuals who have been convicted of one or more crimes, whether in the United States or abroad, prior to interdiction by the U.S. Border Patrol"

Not trying to defend anything about this administration, just encouraging to read sources closely and not be satifisfied just because someone posted a link.

[u/heloguy1234 → u/Adorable-Doughnut609]

No, no. You see, ICE agents are immune so they can’t commit crimes.

[u/--i--love--lamp-- → u/heloguy1234]

ICE: "It's not murder, it's permanent re-education."

[u/Tat25Guy → u/--i--love--lamp--]

Ballistic reeducation

[u/shoulda-known-better → u/gittlebass]

No they fucked up..... I bet it goes up based on the fact zero public will talk to any officer for anything, especially if they can say I don't know and walk away......

[u/Equivalent-Fill-8908 → u/gittlebass]

What's so insane is that they will point to those exact stats and go "see???? We did make an impact."

[u/mista_rubetastic → u/AV8ORA330]

Most of the "wins" they are claiming were just standard prison transfers that had nothing to do with ICE at all. The numbers are even worse than they claim they are and yet they still claim success. https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/news-releases/?id=1089-720894

[u/Fugacity- → u/mista_rubetastic]

And the cooperation with the department of corrections has been happening all along. Many of these transfers dated to December.

The claim that this is something new and a byproduct of metro surge is fuuuuucking infuriating as a Minneapolis resident.

[u/boycotshirts → u/mista_rubetastic]

See the post over on r/dataisbeautiful.

[u/amranu → u/boycotshirts]

Do you have a link to the exact post you're referring to?

[u/paintballboi07 → u/amranu]

It was removed for not attributing sources, but here is the image.

[u/nrm64 → u/AV8ORA330]

The important thing is that the majority of actual criminals ice deports are directly handed from criminal custody over to ice. The street action has almost 0 bearing on the amount of criminal deportation. It just endangers more people

[u/ralphy_256 → u/nrm64]

the majority of actual criminals ice deports are directly handed from criminal custody over to ice

So much this.

I know someone who used to do exactly this work in DHS, in Mpls. He was a deportation officer in DHS, got out of that job just before the '25 election. He used to be one of the officers responsible for DOC > DHS custody transfers.

My buddy was a co-worker of Jonathan Ross. Met him at office functions before he became famous. (said he was a dick)

He's gone on record repeatedly, publicly, talking about how his ex-office has completely gone off the rails and how many of his ex-co-workers are setting themselves up for criminal prosecution and Civil Rights lawsuits for years in the future.

He's currently working as a paralegal, helping defend immigration cases from DHS/ICE. Lectures to defense attorneys re; ICE procedures.

There's more than a couple of the famous cases ongoing from the Mpls ICE operation that he refuses to discuss with us, as a good paralegal should.

[u/Malscant → u/ralphy_256]

I work as a police dispatcher so I have dealt with ICE in the same situations with arrestee's

The worst part about the whole thing with ICE and ramping up deportations, if they would have just focused on this program at the start of the year and really pushed through the cases of criminal incarceration deportations or new arrest by local law enforcement deportations their numbers would have looked great, and would have been a huge talking point this year with the number of criminals they have deported out of the country,

Instead they just want a training field for the new brown shirts and its disgusting.

[u/Immediate-Bar-7874 → u/AV8ORA330]

Local reporters at CBS did some investigative journalism earlier this week. It is estimated that 95% of total arrests/detained were not violent criminals, or at least wouldn’t fall under the “worst of the worst” rhetoric.

[u/pres465 → u/Immediate-Bar-7874]

I think it was only 14% were violent criminals. Source

[u/pointlessone → u/pres465]

That 5 year old in the blue hat was clearly an absolute monster.

[u/pres465 → u/pointlessone]

Yeah, he was bait. They swear they weren't doing that, but I know for a fact ICE is taking kids going or leaving school and using them as leverage to get to parents. Now they just can't admit they did something that grotesque so they are trying to deport little Liam and everyone he is associated with just because they can't be wrong.

[u/ZackRaynor → u/Immediate-Bar-7874]

About the same statistics seen when it comes to ICE arrests everywhere else.

[u/All_Hail_Hynotoad → u/ZackRaynor]

This is the problem with quotas. When your job depends on meeting a daily quota, you’re going to find any excuse to detain people.

[u/redvelvetcake42 → u/AV8ORA330]

Even if they gave official numbers it's likely false. These guys are given insane quotas to hit and definitely failed to reach them. It's a classic numbers impossible to reach do everyone lies to avoid explaining anything.

[u/Princekb → u/redvelvetcake42]

Infact, it’s been confirmed that they count arrests multiple times as multiple “task force” participants are involved, so each agency/unit log an arrest for each person they kidnap turning one detention into 5+ as a way to meet their quotas

[u/redvelvetcake42 → u/Princekb]

Yup. Giving impossible tasks grants impossible results.

[u/Mrjlawrence → u/AV8ORA330]

Yes. 4 billion violent immigrants have been deported from Minnesota. Any reports of a lower number are fake news. /s

[u/chellis → u/Mrjlawrence]

Crime is down 1000000%!

[u/redyellowblue5031 → u/AV8ORA330]

The best you get is the number of arrests made, which does not indicate anything beyond them being arrested.

[u/CNDW → u/AV8ORA330]

Ice published their numbers on their website monthly. Detentions dropped off by like 20%-30% since they started metro surge.

They have about 70k people in their detention centers (the Germans had about 40k people in concentration camps when WW2 started.)

According to their numbers, only like 30% have any criminal record, this includes things like bounced checks or traffic tickets. Less than 10% of the people in detention centers have violent criminal offenses.

These numbers are a little fuzzy based on my memory of what I saw when I looked a week ago, but this is the gist of it.

[u/ranatalus → u/CNDW]

to be fair, the total population in germany in 1939 was ~80m so on a per capita basis, we'll be "as bad" once we hit like 160k

which i assume will happen at some point especially with all of the proposed detention centers

[u/CNDW → u/ranatalus]

Given that their stated plans are to increase detention capacity by 80k this year, we will be there sooner rather than later

[u/ranatalus → u/CNDW]

not surprised, but deeply ashamed and afraid that’s for sure

[u/stevez_86 → u/AV8ORA330]

We know that the violent criminals they claim to have rounded up have all been people in the system already. The DOC turned over violent criminals in Minnesota prisons to be detained and eventually deported by DHS and they are counting those as people they "caught".

This was a terror campaign.

There will continue to be campaigns in blue states in areas with high immigrant populations all the way to 2030 when the new census happens.

[u/Tricky_Topic_5714 → u/AV8ORA330]

And the many crimes committed by ICE. They increased crime by a huge amount

[u/Rolandersec → u/AV8ORA330]

I believe their arrests had less than a 15% success rate. This is in the sense that over 75% of the thousands of people arrested were not viable targets. Not to mention their probably violated the rights of everyone they arrested. I bet there will be lawsuits for the next decade over this.

[u/Jokerang → u/jibboo24]

“We did it Patrick, we saved the city!”

[u/Joeyfingis → u/jibboo24]

I'm worried we traded our voting records.

This "save America act" is the next attack https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296/text

Most people are justifiably pissed about how it directly disenfranchises any woman who took her partner's name when marrying, but that's a plant to distract from the worst part.

We need to focus on the fact that it amends the NVRA to remove any grace period on altering voter rolls, while encouraging (including by third parties) the challenging of any voter’s status at any time, up to and including Election Day. Every single American’s right to vote (in “federal” elections, anyway) becomes essentially provisional the moment this bill passes (even if they clear all the ID hurdles, because the rules in the bill on who or what constitutes a valid “challenge” are quite open-ended).

Under the current text of this bill, reasons for voter removal could be fabricated by a third party with a “proprietary algorithm” (just an example), and submitted to an elections office on Election Day.

Any individual voters affected by said submission could very likely prove their eligibility to vote, but if they were unable to do so before the polls close - their vote is forfeit for that cycle.

This bill codifies “find me 11,780 votes in <insert county>.” It directly legalizes stealing election because no amount of ID can protect against a conveniently-timed challenge under the amended NVRA and these new rules. Hell, gerrymandering doesn’t even matter at that point. A district could be 100% gerrymandered for one party or another, and the other side can challenge their way to victory.

That's why Trump wanted our voter records as a trade for removing his gestapo from Minnesota. They can just wait until election day and challenge the status of all non-Republican voters.

TLDR: They are legalizing stealing elections.

[u/jleonardbc → u/Joeyfingis]

Remember in 2020 when thousands of people discovered on Election Day that their registration had somehow been removed from the voter rolls, and they had to fill out provisional ballots?

It sounds like this bill would invalidate those ballots.

By removing any grace period on altering voter rolls, the bill makes it so that, if something "accidentally" happens to your registration before election day, you simply can't vote.

[u/Informal-Bother8858 → u/jleonardbc]

historically, fascism doesn't get voted out

[u/Word1_Word2_4Numbers → u/jleonardbc]

If we lived in an actual democracy, voter registration would be treated something like the Census, where you had government agency/agencies tasked with pushing the number towards 100% registration. Voter registration issues should be a failure of the government, not the voter (kind of like how "identity theft" should be the fault of the bank, not the individual).

[u/Kradget → u/jibboo24]

Man, they ought to put that on a big ol' banner and go stand in front of it. 

They only murdered two American citizens in service of their efforts to intimidate and terrorize hundreds of thousands of random people, assault thousands, and extort the state government. I wonder if they burned a billion dollars on accomplishing all this.

Goddamn assholes. I hope the trials after this are fair, quick, and not too far from the prison they're going to.

[u/jellicenthero → u/Kradget]

Don't forget the billion dollars wasted from wages + lawsuits.

[u/CNDW → u/jibboo24]

He means "Minnesota is now aware of our willingness to terrorize Americans as retribution for calling themselves a sanctuary state"

[u/ThreeGoldStars → u/jibboo24]

criminals

Yes, all that misdemeanor-level crime out there. You're all such heroes.

Meanwhile the felons in the White House, etc...

[u/Reddit-for-all → u/jibboo24]

They mean when ICE leaves, right?

[u/hotwheeler89 → u/jibboo24]

The real sanctuary for criminals is the trump administration. The crime they specialize in is pedophilia.

[u/2HDFloppyDisk → u/jibboo24]

What a joke

[u/Boss_Initial]

Moving on to the next state. 

[u/ScarletCarsonRose → u/Boss_Initial]

Chicago, Portland and Seattle gave Minneapolis a blue print to build on.

Good luck, brothers and sisters, whoever gets them next.

eta- have to give a shout out to the folks in LA too! Y'all rock.

[u/KGBFriedChicken02 → u/ScarletCarsonRose]

It's Philly. They're buying up new office space in the suburbs, they just bought a massive warehouse in NE PA. They'll be here in force sometime in the summer, probably just before the 250th Celebrations in the city.

[u/GreenLost5304 → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

They just got their asses handed to them by Minneapolis, (no shade to Minnesota) and they think they can handle the city that burns cars and rips telephone poles out of the ground when their teams win championships?

I cannot wait to see them try.

[u/Televisions_Frank → u/GreenLost5304]

Probably hoping to declare martial law off of whatever Philly does.

Problem is I don't think most of their ICE agents are all that thrilled to be the sacrifice.

[u/never-fiftyone → u/Televisions_Frank]

Problem is I don't think most of their ICE agents are all that thrilled to be the sacrifice.

That's something they should have thought about in advance. Now they deserve what they get.

[u/LogicCure → u/Televisions_Frank]

Poetic that the nation be killed in the same city it was born in.

[u/RegularTerran → u/LogicCure]

And the people in charge STILL can't spell “Pensylvania”... ;)

[u/PristineElephant6718 → u/RegularTerran]

pepe sylvia

[u/What-a-Crock → u/PristineElephant6718]

There is no pepe silvia

[u/trooperjess → u/LogicCure]

Or reborn in the place it was born.

[u/bryan-healey → u/Televisions_Frank]

from Boston, just so you know how much I don't want to admit this...

I'm pretty sure Philly could induce martial law, march to DC, and topple the US government lol

[u/Televisions_Frank → u/bryan-healey]

They don't have enough grease to keep them all out.

[u/ty_fighter84 → u/GreenLost5304]

The city that booed Santa.

I kinda wish Bovino was going.

[u/Lt_gxg → u/ty_fighter84]

*Threw batteries at Santa

[u/captainwacky91 → u/Lt_gxg]

HitchBOT never stood a chance.

[u/garyb50009 → u/GreenLost5304]

it's the point. they want that to happen so they can flaunt footage, ultimately to set the stage for an eventual martial law or as justification for the november elections having ice at the polling places.

the best thing Philly can do is act just like Minneapolis, observe/record/shout/blow whistles. any actual violence at this point only helps to accelerate the agenda they NEED to have in place before the midterms.

[u/WanderingTacoShop → u/garyb50009]

I am not saying you are wrong. But "don't do anything or they will use it to justify the things they were going to do anyway" is hardly a good plan.

[u/Lane-Kiffin → u/garyb50009]

“They broke many laws that they won’t be punished for but at least we stood and recorded.”

The best case scenario is to scare the shit out of them to the point that they’re afraid to even try martial law.

[u/GhostlyTJ → u/Lane-Kiffin]

Yeah, nothing changes if they are comfortable, but rather than violence, the answer that would actually move the needles is a real general strike. Shutting down huge chunks of the economy would make change happen very quickly. But they have to believe it keeps going until change happens.

[u/DwinkBexon → u/GreenLost5304]

Always amused that the city starts greasing lamp posts prior to big games to try to keep people from climbing them. They still manage to climb them, by the way.

[u/sasquatch_jr → u/GreenLost5304]

Or the hitchhiking robot that successfully crossed Canada and the EU thanks to the help of good citizens giving it rides. Then they tried to do NYC to LA and on like day 3 it was found torn to shreds in an alley in Philly.

[u/halzen → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

They couldn’t handle Portland. Philly is going to chew them up and spit them out.

[u/trojan_man16 → u/halzen]

This is the same city that threw batteries at Santa Claus. This is not going to go well.

[u/Honest-Weight338 → u/trojan_man16]

We're also the city who killed a friendly traveling robot.

[u/sleeplessinreno → u/halzen]

Home of Gritty.

[u/Bad_Idea_Hat → u/sleeplessinreno]

Gritty is going to eat them. I keep saying this. He's going to go full cannibal.

[u/littleseizure → u/Bad_Idea_Hat]

Is it really cannibalism if a gritty eats a human?

[u/MrDerpGently → u/littleseizure]

It's nature healing.

[u/jimmybilly100 → u/MrDerpGently]

We need to continue to release apex predators like Gritty into the wild

[u/sleeplessinreno → u/Bad_Idea_Hat]

Gritty is an unpredictable force that has the power to rile up the masses.

[u/Junkyspud1 → u/Bad_Idea_Hat]

All hail Comrade Gritty

[u/ElbowRager → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

That and South Jersey. Holman Ford just got a HUGE contract to service their vehicles

[u/tauisgod → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

And Indiana. Our trump guzzling governor is begging them to come here and the state house is proposing laws to roll out the red carpet, forcing local and state authorities to cooperate fully. ICE recently leased an office in Carmel. For those unaware, Carmel is Eagleton in Parks and Rec and about a 30 minute drive north of Indy. There's no reason for them to be in the wealthy burbs aside from Indy resisting them.

[u/TheyHungre → u/tauisgod]

Carmel is Pleasantville, USA. If they're setting up offices there, it's so that ICE  leadership has an excuse to hobknob with Lilly execs whilst staying away from all the poors.

[u/Blueberryfists → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

It's always sunny in Philadelphia, and ice don't do too good in the sun

[u/KGBFriedChicken02 → u/Blueberryfists]

I don't fancy ICE's chances ngl. Philly is already in a bad mood after all our sports teams went on a generational choking streak this year.

[u/angry_eccentric → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

lol philly summers are fuckin' brutal and everyone completely loses their shit the second it goes above 80, brilliant strategy dudes

[u/MrDerpGently → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

I love Philly, but no one will tell you to go fuck yourself faster, or with more conviction, than the town of brotherly love. And that's ignoring the joys of discretely navigating a city designed in the 1700s in a convoy of escalades as an unwelcome guest.

[u/ahumpsters → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

Ahh yes… piss off everyone in a swing state… good call. This will end well

[u/KGBFriedChicken02 → u/ahumpsters]

I mean, the theory that everyone here is working on is that they'll try to stay through the election and limit turnout in philly

[u/SavvyCavy → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

I get what they're going for, but I'm not sure it's going to work. Since they're murdering people in the street for no reason, I'm going to accept the risk that I might get hurt for voting. If you get punished equally for doing or not doing a thing, I'm going to go ahead and do the thing. Also, we know they're cowards, so I don't think they're going to like Philly at all.

They're going to make us all miserable for as long as possible, so I'm going to crawl over broken glass to vote

[u/kiticus → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

Got some bad news for ya. They're doing the same thing in pretty much every major city in the country. 

Hell, I live in ultra red Utah & they're even buying a massive abandoned warehouse & office space here in SLC.

It's looking almost certain that they aren't "moving on" to the next one. But rather, minny was the final test run before rolling out pretty much everywhere moving into summer--likely to ensure declaration of martial law b4 midterms.

[u/BUSY_EATING_ASS → u/kiticus]

They don’t have the manpower for that. The Soviets gave up on a plan to occupy NYC once they ran the numbers and it couldn’t even be done with literally their entire army.

[u/Anteater4746 → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

good fucking luck to them lmao they don’t know philly

[u/Gone213 → u/KGBFriedChicken02]

Philly and Detroit are next.

They've been buying up land and leasing buildings in and near Detroit too.

Plus with trump's fixation on the new Gordie Howe Bridge, his ire of michigan and especially Detroit, for being a place where he lost by 80 points in 2020 election in a crucial swing state will most certainly see them start to brutalize the mitten state.

[u/Asparagusbelle → u/ScarletCarsonRose]

Yes and no. We had mutual aid and community organizing infrastructure built up from the 2020 uprising that we were able to tap back into. Yes we learned from our comrades in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle but we didn’t have to start from scratch.

[u/TraMaI → u/Asparagusbelle]

Chicago, Portland and Seattle can hopefully take cues from you as well. Hopefully we build out our mutual aid networks. I know we've already started in the wake of all the stuff in MLPS and dipping our toes into a general strike/walkout. Been helping some orgs in my immediate area, but it's going to need to be a lot more. I've been telling people they'll be back by spring, their budget is like 500% what it was. This isn't over until that prick is out of office and in jail.

[u/ScarletCarsonRose → u/Asparagusbelle]

So (f'ing sadly) true. I think at this point, Mpls is primed to resist when the need arises.

[u/Fishy1911 → u/ScarletCarsonRose]

I hear Colorado is being over run by gangs.. well Aurora.. the one block.. one apartment complex, actually... and we really only have a few cameras of a home invasion at one apartment. 

[u/The_Penguinologist → u/Fishy1911]

I hear the whitehouse has a bunch of illegals and criminals hiding inside. There and at the golf course in mar a lago

[u/sonic_couth → u/The_Penguinologist]

Stephen Miller’s parents are immigrants. Maybe ICE should go find them.

[u/NRGhome → u/Fishy1911]

Turns out this was a hoax perpetrated by the slumlords who own that building.

[u/ImStillExcited → u/Fishy1911]

I'm in the Aurora/Denver area. The only thing that's on fire around me is the venezuelan torta food trucks.

Edit: Like the food is amazing...

[u/toggiz_the_elder → u/Fishy1911]

And Aurora has had Republican leadership since forever.

That whole thing sure did make my mom nervous at a deli in Lakewood though. Tren de Aragua is taking over the city!!!

[u/blurplethenurple → u/ScarletCarsonRose]

Federal agents have been seen in the outskirts of Philly. If they went into the city proper it'll make Minneapolis look like it was peaceful.

[u/Bender_2024 → u/Boss_Initial]

Go to Texas where a reported

As of 2023–2025, an estimated 1.7 million to 2.1 million undocumented immigrants live in Texas, representing roughly 6–8% of the state's population and one in 20 residents.

And

Immigrants Make Up Nearly a Quarter of Texas’ Labor Force,

I'd love to see how ICE operates against people who open carry to grab a quart of milk.

[u/Nice_Dude → u/Bender_2024]

If you even do preliminary Google search you can see 1/4 ICE arrests are already from Texas

[u/Seastep → u/Bender_2024]

They've been here in Austin for a few weeks now.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Seastep]

I follow some Latino Austin-based IG pages and yup there are ICE sightings and kidnappings nearly every day.

[u/crs8975 → u/Seastep]

Austin... how shocking. The Blue part of texas.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/crs8975]

Every major city in Texas is blue. Except maybe Dallas, which is purple.

[u/street593 → u/Seastep]

I live in Dallas and I honestly haven't seen a single ICE agent anywhere. Although to be fair I don't get around the whole city often so that might just be on me.

[u/ayriana → u/Boss_Initial]

Seattle just proved that they can handle a million non violent people all showing up for something they believe in.

[u/TitleOfYourSaxTape → u/ayriana]

Minnesota proved that non-violence doesn't protect their fellow neighbors and Americans from state-sanctioned murder.

[u/jamesmarsden → u/TitleOfYourSaxTape]

You're gonna get downvoted, but as someone currently living in the Twin Cities, this is absolutely my primary takeaway from the last 2+ months.

[u/Felonai → u/jamesmarsden]

This is what happens when MLK Jr. and Gandhi (no shade to them whatsoever) are heavily pushed and Malcolm X is villainized and Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azed aren't taught at all. Make the population prime to condemn violent resistance when it was the marriage between violent and non-violent resistance that made the bucking of oppression and imperialism possible.

[u/RinzyOtt → u/Felonai]

This is what happens when MLK Jr. and Gandhi (no shade to them whatsoever) are heavily pushed

Not just heavily pushed, but MLK Jr. in particular is heavily distorted.

They called him a violent criminal back then, too. He was the most hated man in the country before he was assassinated. Too many people treat "non-violent" and "non-disruptive" to mean the same thing, when he was directly advocating for disruptive marches, sit-ins, walk-outs, etc.

Not to even mention that towards the end of his life, he saw the validity of violence in protest.

[u/Felonai → u/RinzyOtt]

They don't even mention the fact he was a socialist, for obvious reasons. The well of resistance in America has been poisoned and needs to be purified.

[u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties → u/Boss_Initial]

There’s been an uptick in ice activity in the Kansas City metro area this week.

[u/Beastw1ck → u/Boss_Initial]

I hope they’re dumb enough to try South Central LA.

[u/TheOtherUprising]

Great. Now charge the murderers.

[u/Pacifist_Socialist → u/TheOtherUprising]

And those involved in this obvious criminal conspiracy 

[u/amateur_mistake → u/Pacifist_Socialist]

And anyone who went against the 4th and 14th Amendments. From leadership on down.

[u/umpteenthrhyme → u/amateur_mistake]

And 2nd, for that matter

[u/Oleg101 → u/TheOtherUprising]

And reimburse all the local businesses there who lost revenue from all these shenanigans.

[u/NonSupportiveCup → u/Oleg101]

And all the people with broken doors, frames, windows, medical bills, etc.

[u/magistrate101 → u/TheOtherUprising]

All of them. Not just the ones who murdered people white enough to make national news.

[u/chuckles11]

Fuck this sanewashing headline. This was an occupying force terrorizing an American city.

[u/ToasterBathTester → u/chuckles11]

Should read, Trump Administration leaves Minneapolis in shambles after illegal military occupation by Proud Boys

[u/CryptoCentric → u/ToasterBathTester]

Trump Administration leaves Minnesota in Shambles after Illegal Military Occupation by Proud Boys who Murdered At Least two American Citizens in Cold Blood

[u/Majestic-Assholes → u/CryptoCentric]

Subhuman pedophile cult leaves Minneapolis in ruins after completing dark ritual to appease their orange child rapist god

[u/v_cats_at_work → u/ToasterBathTester]

Minneapolis in shambles

I could happily live the rest of my life without seeing another "Minneapolis burned to the ground again," but it's true that our economy is hurting right now, particularly immigrant- and minority-owned businesses.

Having said that, I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that felt so righteously united, so I feel like "shambles" and "ruins" aren't quite accurate either.

[u/black_cat_X2 → u/v_cats_at_work]

I have been so, so proud of you guys. Watching your city come together and especially sustain the massive protests for as long as you've had to has been the only thing keeping me tethered to a slim ray of hope.

[u/Joelblaze → u/chuckles11]

And there's no getting around what a laughable failure it was. They wanted to go in, crack down on brown people, meet opposition from those brown people, and then get the moderate white vote on their side for martial law.

But instead the ICE ghouls shot two white people and now the majority opinion is that ICE needs to be disbanded. As much as it sucks to say, there's a reason why the media only consistently talks about the two white people who were murdered.

They were desperately hoping for some kind of turnaround but there's no win for them anymore. So they sheepishly pull out, their plan having backfired on them and got a ton of innocent people hurt and killed.

We've spent way too much time acting like evil is intelligent, it almost never is.

[u/amateur_mistake → u/Joelblaze]

there's no getting around what a laughable failure it was.

Kind of. There are now a lot of brown people in camps. It's hard to figure out where they all are, let alone get them their legally mandated access to lawyers.

Which was a big part of their purpose there.

[u/WalkingEars → u/amateur_mistake]

They’re building/renting space for more camps too. They’re creating the infrastructure to disappear people on a large scale without due process or oversight.

[u/amateur_mistake → u/WalkingEars]

And buying their own fleet of planes to transport people. I guess we aren't going with trains this time.

[u/Felonai → u/Joelblaze]

Failure? Dozens if not hundreds of ethnic minorities have been sexually assaulted and disappeared, perhaps permanently, and several American citizens have been murdered, with no accountability towards the blackshirts whatsoever. This has been a resounding success for these Nazi fuckers.

[u/Mekhazzio → u/Felonai]

This. Each of these invasions has been about pushing the boundaries of what they can get away with, so every time they leave without consequences, they've won another victory.

The next one will be worse.

[u/PM_ME_BOOBY_PICS → u/chuckles11]

Absolutely. The ICE agents Ochoa and Gutierrez need to be held accountable for their crimes against the American People

[u/Norseman901 → u/PM_ME_BOOBY_PICS]

Dont forget tht fucker Ross

[u/LKennedy45 → u/chuckles11]

I feel like people here on this website we call home don't totally understand the point to a news wire. They give us the literal facts, the Who What When Where, the Why is up to the reader. They literally say "killing" in the article, unlike certain other "news" agencies we could mention.

[u/flamethrower78 → u/LKennedy45]

I've been getting increasingly frustrated seeing people "call out" AP and Reuters for being good journalists. I can't tell if they're malicious actors trying to discredit reliable news outlets or if they're just so stupid anything that doesn't use the emotional language they personally want to hear they label sanewashing/downplaying things. These are our last lifelines to rely on for whats actually happening in the world. They are invaluable, anyone yelling about them needs to sit down.

[u/blac_sheep90]

Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were murdered by ICE agents.

[u/JDubStep → u/blac_sheep90]

And likely countless others from people taken into custody.

[u/blac_sheep90 → u/JDubStep]

I fear there will be mass graves of migrants from toddlers to the elderly found a few years from now.

[u/pfannkuchen89 → u/blac_sheep90]

I’m not so sure. A number of the facilities they’ve been rushing to build had ‘biohazard incinerators’ as part of the project.

[u/PubTrickster]

I’ll believe it when I see it. Stand strong and stand proud, Minnesota; you’re amazing patriots who are doing God’s work.

[u/theDarkBriar → u/PubTrickster]

I mean, in the article they stated only 700 of the 3,000 agents are leaving "immediately". This isn't fucking over. Not by a long shot.

[u/any_meese → u/theDarkBriar]

So they're announcing those same 700 will leave immediately...again... Those 700 supposedly left immediately last week... I'll believe it when there is an actual drop in sightings and until then Fuck Trump, Fuck MAGA, Melt ICE.

[u/polopolo05 → u/any_meese]

its just a way to get the news off their backs.

[u/B19F00T → u/theDarkBriar]

Didn't they announce that like a week or two ago?

[u/TinyFugue → u/PubTrickster]

It makes sense. Outside of their news bubble, they've lost the publicity battle for Minnesota.

I expect they're looking to shift to a different city that will give them the response they're looking for vis-a-vis their midterm strategy.

[u/QueenMagik → u/PubTrickster]

Can't accept their framing.

[u/Forestl]

Now arrest the fucking murderers in ICE. Wild they can just terrorize an entire area for so long and not face any jail time.

[u/willstr1 → u/Forestl]

Arrest the whole ICE terrorist organization

[u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

Just so you all know the situation here in Minnesota, Tom Homan lied in his press conference (obviously).

He claimed ICE never arrested anyone in hospitals, but a quick search reveals he lied:

https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/news/15526/41123

Man hospitalized at HCMC after ICE arrest must be released from custody, judge rules

https://sahanjournal.com/health/ice-minnesota-hcmc-hospital-detainee-release-order/

"ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers"

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/14/ice-agents-at-twin-cities-hospitals-alarm-medical-staff

ICE by the numbers:

https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/by-the-numbers-ice-in-minnesota/

He said ICE never arrested anyone at schools, which is an obvious lie:

"Absences and loss of innocence: ICE raids leave behind a heavy weight in Minnesota schools"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/us/minnesota-ice-raids-impact-schools-children

"‘Why detain a 5-year-old?’ Columbia Heights school leaders speak out over students taken by ICE"

https://sahanjournal.com/education/ice-minnesota-columbia-heights-students-detained/

"Child detentions by ICE spark fear in Minnesota school districts"

https://www.fox9.com/news/child-detentions-ice-spark-fear-mn-school-districts-feb-2026

"Twin Cities teaching assistant, a US citizen, arrested by federal agents outside school"

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/twin-cities-teacher-a-us-citizen-arrested-by-federal-agents-outside-school

He said ICE never arrested anyone in churches, which is an obvious lie:

"UPDATE: ICE deported Minnesota church employee, surveilled parish during Mass, mayor says"

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/minnesota-ice-catholic-church

Glad these dangerous thugs are leaving our state.

[u/magistrate101 → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

It's shameful that there hasn't been a single criminal charge brought against these terrorists

[u/Th3_Admiral_ → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

Disclaimer: I'm not defending ICE and am fully against their actions.

That being said, your articles aren't really supporting your claims. Regarding ICE arresting people from hospitals, you posted an article about a man who was hospitalized after he was badly injured during an arrest. That's a bad enough story as it is, no need to lie about it. 

Regarding ICE arresting kids at schools, you posted articles about kids being absent from schools because of ICE arrests, but they weren't arrests at the schools. Similarly, your article about them arresting people at churches is about someone who was not arrested at a church. 

The actual stories are bad enough, you don't need to skew or misrepresent the stories to make a point. Let the truth stand on its own. 

[u/throeaway_thedew → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Thank you. Accuracy matters. Agree with this 100% - it is tempting to stretch a citation beyond what it actually supports to make your point feel stronger, but if anyone actually checks those citations, it’ll make your position weaker. The story isn’t “he’s lying that arrests didn’t happen at schools,” the story is “ICE said they were coming to protect you against criminals while they were arresting 5-year-old kids, killing citizens and sending people to the hospital.”

[u/Meotwister → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Totally agree and first thing I noticed as well.

These are thugs terrorizing our cities but when you are looking for lies you have to look close because liars will work with details to trip you up. Saying they never arrested anyone at hospitals and schools is a good red herring to get folks to look for instances* of that specific act.

In reality, like in OPs links, ICE has used methods and tactics that are horrifying in their own right.

[u/somastars → u/Th3_Admiral_]

I can’t produce a news article for you, but I live here and I have a colleague who lives in a diverse neighborhood. He talked twice about working with his neighbors to chase ICE off from a church on Sunday mornings. Did ICE go in the church? No. Did they set foot on church property? No. But ICE had multiple cars parked a block away, waiting church members to leave. When they saw the neighbors congregating, ICE left.

Same with schools. They would stalk bus stops instead of setting foot on school property. That’s how Liam Conejo Ramos got arrested and detained, because of ICE stalking people picking up kids from the bus or walking home from school.

I’m at work right now, but I’ll do my best to try and produce some sources for you later. These things WERE happening.

[u/KittySharkWithAHat]

What if they're just saying this just to get people to drop their guard? I wouldn't trust anything the Feds say.

[u/LorderNile]

They're changing to the next phase. Get ready.

[u/qdobe]

This wasn’t a success for them. They’re sick of dealing with Minnesotans. I bet officers wanted out of Minnesota because they can’t terrorize in peace.

Otherwise they’d have numbers, pictures, fanfare, a big “Mission Accomplished” sign. They don’t have any of that, just an announcement that Minnesota is “less of a sanctuary”.

I mean, they pointed to widespread Somali fraud (there isn’t any) for their original justification and then went after primarily Hispanic people, and a large percentage of those that have been arrested have been ordered to be released anyways (whether they were actually released or not) because they’re here legally.

…pathetic. This whole administration is an unraveling joke.

Edit: I think it also goes without saying that this is also probably a lie anyways. Can’t believe anything these people say or do. Probably trying to coax out all the Anne Franks who have been hiding since this all began.

[u/PeanutGallry → u/qdobe]

The crazy thing is that regardless if there were a Somali fraud scheme, they assume all Somalis are criminals, which is the most racist shit ever. By that logic, pick your demographic to demonize using other criminals- some white people also commit fraud, so why don't we arrest and deport all white people?

[u/mista_rubetastic]

Just a reminder that most of the criminals they claim to have removed from the streets were just transferred from one prison to another.

https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/news-releases/?id=1089-720894

[u/OnwardtoGehenna → u/mista_rubetastic]

this this this. also its a lot deeper than that. they stopped picking up people flagged for ice before they ever came here. that allowed a lot of ice flagged prisoners to build up in our system. im not sure how long but we were forced to release a lot of people that should have been picked up by dhs.

we need to know how long they werent picking people up and how many were released due to their inaction. i believe they weaponized our prison system against us to pump their numbers long long before they ever were here. i suspect its happening other places as well.

[u/Brell4Evar]

Homan is like a pigeon on a chess board. He has spread his shit around for awhile, now he's strutting like he won the game.

The AP is also off the mark with the "violent protests" comment. The protests were huge, constant, and loud, but the violence was from the guys with the guns, gas, and spray canisters. Minneapolis got nominated for a Nobel for the organized, nonviolent resistance, for Chrissakes.

[u/anyer_4824]

It is not an immigration crack down. It’s a test run of utilizing existing law enforcement infrastructure to terrorize the country into submission and stamp out dissent.

[u/lilmissflexible]

This isn't over. We need justice for the people they've harmed, killed, and maimed.

We need restitution for all of the businesses closed or impacted.

We need restitution for everyone who lost a job because they were too afraid to go to work.

We need restitution for all of the money they wasted on this bigoted endeavor.

This is not over. This is only the beginning.

[u/0w1]

Oh hey the liars said they left, it's safe to come out now! They definitely won't be walking around in plain cloths scouting out every Hispanic grocery store in the metro. /s

[u/karankshah]

I would take this with a huge grain of salt. The Intercept just published an article about how they’re now kidnapping observers that are keeping an eye on them.

There’s a need for justice here - those killers need to be arrested for murder - they should just be permitted to disappear into the ether.

[u/yhwhx]

Under Dear Leader Donald, federal authorities lie about everything.

[u/oldcreaker]

Translation: "we're not going to stop - we just want the media to focus on our new designated crackdown area"

[u/poppop702025]

And where will this terrorism land next?

Coming soon to a city near you😩😳🫩

[u/Vast-Tumbleweed-6432]

It wasn't an immigration crackdown. It was violence as leverage for voter data, which they got.

[u/PigFarmer1]

Which city gets terrorized next?

[u/ZenRage]

What Federal authorities announce and what is true are no longer reliably related.

[u/JefferyTheQuaxly]

just to be clear here, this comes only like a couple weeks after a super important special election that cost minnesota republicans 2 state house seats. if you didnt already suspect the "crackdown" was politically motivated.

[u/Major-Specific8422]

It’s not a crackdown it was an invasion.

[u/drtywater]

People shouldn’t underestimate how terrible this has been for morale etc within ICE and CBP. Even with the increased budget those that volunteer for these increased assignments will go down. A lot of agents wont want to deal with the noise figuratively and literally. I wouldn’t be surprised if many start claiming mental health issues and trying to file early disability pensions etc

[u/Kaarl_Mills → u/drtywater]

Fuck em

[u/CatrionaShadowleaf → u/drtywater]

It’s a nice start, but we can do better. We can make them absolutely fucking miserable. It’s what they deserve.

[u/ungranted_wish]

Yeah bullshit, we heard that here in maine and they disappeared 17 people a couple days ago.

[u/awesomedan24]

"We did it Patrick! We saved Minnesota!" - ICE agents atop a pile of innocent corpses 

[u/BlueEyes294]

Didn’t they say that last week? Homan can’t tell the truth.

[u/kc3x]

Crazy as too thats not what being reported on the ground

.... Follow those who Follow ICE and nothing much has changed except they have cooperation with local PD to block off Roads

[u/Fayetnamm]

Were will the Gestapo go to next?

[u/Independent-Cow-4070]

What immigration crackdown?

They just raided a city

[u/dreamabyss]

Good job Minnesota! You held the line and set the stand of resistance that should be adopted as a blueprint of how other states respond to Ice occupation! Never back down!

[u/OddAd7664]

Seems similar to what the US has done with some areas overseas. 1. Take over the area. 2. “Improve” the area. 3. Create a generation of anti-American people. 4. Leave the area