And when you start to do the math its pretty staggering.
Minneapolis is currently afflicted by 3k (they're sending another 1k) rouge feds.
They only have 600 cops.
The populace is 400k Americans.
Gun ownership is estimated at 45% of Minneapolis households.
If even 1-5% of housholds decided to violently oppose ICE with force, they would outnumber ICE on day one.
I can see why the vet above says ICE will loose if Americans stop being peaceful.
Back to the lawsuits, the State of Illinois also announced they will be suing DHS over CBP+ICE conduct in Illinois & especially Chicago.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is zeroing in on ICE breaking state laws, like plate swapping
They launched a hotline to report ICE swapping car license plates.
You see ICE using stolen plates?
Call or email the state of Illinois today!
#CourtWatch #Illinois #chicago #chicagoICE #FuckICE #AlexiGiannoulias
The full text of Illinois' lawsuit against DHS can be found below 👇🏿
Much like other state's suits Illinois' Attorney General Kwame Raoul laz delivered a case detailing sprawling abuses of state sovereignty and operating without regard to the fundamental rights promised in the constitution.
There's even a section titled: "Boarder Patrol's Occupation of Chicago"
#CourtWatch #IlinoisICE #chicago #ChicagoICE #FuckICE #CBP #DHS #KwameRaoul
This lawsuit is possibly even more damning than Minnesota's.
Illinois AG Kwame Raoul laid out what ICE/CBP are technically allowed to do when operating in the interior of the country.
Largely ICE needs a warrant or very clear probable cause to detain or question a person. They typically need to know long in advance who it is they are their to detain.
Instead of that very individualized enformecent ICE is doing cartoon evil shit, like patroling on a gunboat for papers.
The document shows a shift at ICE towards lawless roving patrols.
There's obviously no requirement for American citizens to carry proof of citizenship at all times.
But not only is ICE demanding proof of citizenship while pointing guns at people they are also demanding biometric scans of faces and even fingerprints without a warrant or even probable cause!
One especially ridiculous case, ICE agents abducted a US citizen walking home from the gym.
The agents put a citizen into handcuffs and dragged him into an unmarked car that had no license plates at all!
Once in the car they scanned his face using the DHS app MobileFortify.
The feds insist that they should be able to keep biometric scans of citizens obtained forcefully in roving raids like this one.
#MobileFortify #DHS #ChicagoICE #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #CourtWatch
The Illinois AG writes about case after case after case.
Oh look, masked ICE agents showed up to a hospital with a man whose leg they broke. They refused to ID themselves but forcefully accompainied the man during treatment. A city official arrived to confront the federal cops and they cuffed and detained her. ICE didn't even have a warrant.
In another they beat and detained a man in front of his pregnant partner and daycare center full of preschoolers who witnessed the forceful kidnapping.
I think you get the picture on the shear amount of violence ICE is dolling out.
What Illinois suit drives home and closes with are words from federal officials themselves who promise that the worst is not over for Chicago.
In Bovino's own words he says they intend to come back later in 2026 with a renewed surge in the region slated for March.
Bottom line, the State of Illinois demands the courts order CBP in particular to get the fuck out of Chicago and the rest of the state.
They expect the judge to demand federal immigration cops stop using teargas for no reason. Stop warrantless detentions. Stop biometric scanning. Stop storing biometrics scans. Stop swapping license plates. Stop roving patrols. Stop arbitrary arrests in places like courts. Stop trespassing on private, city and state owned property.
In sort, stop being shitheads
Fuck. Thought I was done with the Illinois thread but I forgot, one other extremely important set of interaction to surface and that is the fact that ICE already shot two Chicagians.
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was murdered by ICE after dropping his son off at school back in September.
ICE also attempted to murder Marimar Martinez, a US citizen who was shot 5 times but survived.
The feds sued Martinez for assault but the case got dropped once video came out.
Despite the lawsuits, protests and lawlessness ICE continues to kidnap, traffic and illegally deport residents of America and possibly even citizens without a trial or any legal form of due process.
There have been at least NINE plane loads of kidnapped individuals being flown out of Minneapolis alone just in a four day period.
A reporter, Amanda Moore, who is OTG in Minneapolis explains some of the footage she shot recently of ICE.
But what really stands out to me is the shocking operational cadance and aggressive pace of the CBP/ICE occupation.
Moore says that she used to be able to take the weekends off from reporting and go home from the front lines.
The frontlines are everywhere now. Everywhere she turns there's an ICE operation.
If the pulse on America weren't clear enough, residents of the twin cities reported seeing a segment last night on their local broadcast news explaining how to refuse ICE's demands for documents or entry into homes.
When the local fox station is telling the masses not to comply with cops orders because the cops are doing so much illegal shit.... it might be a sign that things are not going well for the traditional institutions.
#minneapolis #stpaul #Minnisota #ICE #FuckICE #ACAB #DoNotComply
Personal note, last night I saw mention in my personal circles of an acquaintance whose friend of a friend had their window smashed by ICE.
So thats 3 degrees of separation, just from the Minneapolis ICE surge let alone the local friends who have directly been hassled by ICE.
Show me a room of Americans and I several will know of a friend, a neighbor or work college whose had a loved one hassled by ICE or snatched.
This is much more than Minnesota sadly.
So much trauma and bullshit. I can be a bit of a downer on protests due to the US's strong tradition of activist infighting but its important to remember so much activism is about sharing revolutionary joy and honoring the sacrfaices our community members make in the name of what is right and just.
Local native Americans were seen over the weekend paying their respects to the life and Renee Good, lost in defense of others.
Because of how things are playing out in Minnesota, many everyday Americans are calling on one another for support and Americans from all over the country are answering that call.
This is actually what American patriotism is all about. We've seen this before and its why protest works, average people eventually drop everything to protect their community.
So if ICE keeps escalating and hurting everyday people, more average Americans will drop everything to protect them.
So anyways, ICE has not slowed down one bit.
Throughout all of the weekend and Monday ICE continued to threaten to shoot observers and in several cases violently detained peaceful observers of their operations like Sue below.
Violently arresting a 55yr white lady named Sue at 6am is probably not the best idea if keeping the average American pacified were the goal.
The cops did shit like this in countless cities in 2020 and arresting someones grandma sure didn't help back then.
So everything up until this point is still just Monday's breaking news or interesting stories.
Back to breaking news.
Today reporters working with Status Coup News have posted viral video of ICE just moments ago unleashing a trail of teargas throughout residential neighborhoods.
ICE is upset that everywhere they go they now meet protests and citizens who refuse to comply with their illegal orders
📸 @jonfarinaphoto
Today ICE were seen targeting random motorists held up in traffic.
A young woman was attempting to drive past where ICE was loitering and had her window smashed and was pulled out of her car with her seat belt partially choking her until ICE agents cut it free.
📸 Amanda Moore
https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17
Yesterday photo journalist Chad Davis captured a nearly identical situation however the American driver they detained also had their car rammed and smashed by ICE.
He's got a ton of excellent OTG photo reporting over the passed week in Minneapolis be sure to check the link below.
📸 @daviss - Chad Davis
The man who was detained yesterday while driving painted similar picture to what we're seeing again today.
He's a US citizen who happens to be visibly non-white and agents simply racially profiled him.
They rammed his car and terrified his family only to confirm that he is in fact a US citizen.
Today we're seeing the exact same actions again throughout the twin cities.
📸 Sahan Journal via TikTok
Today House Representative Robin Kelly from Illinois introduced articles of impeachment to remove Krisit Noem.
Within hours 50 Democrats had already signed on to show their support for the bill.
In her speech introducing the impeachment articles Rep. Kelly talks about the harms of ICE especially in Chicago and Minneapolis.
Kelly directly calls out the low quality of ICE agents. Demanding to know if Proud Boys were hired.
You know, its been a while(like maybe 3 days) since there's been an embarassing leak. Doesn't if feel like this story needs another leak?
Oh, well look at that, a super public anti-Trump Slate reporter managed to get hired by ICE and is explaining all of their internal processes and machinations. She did nothing to conceal her identity
"it takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about ICE"
✍🏿 Laura Jedeed
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
"Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job."
Reporter Laura Jedeed does a bang up job of demonstrating that ICE really doesn't even care if you finish the application or background check.
They will hire ANYONE who wants to go harass immigrants.
More reporting from Laura on her site 👇🏿
Right on schedule, irreverenat loud mouth anti-ICE tiktoker Robby Roadstreamer surfaced this morning saying he's out of of ICE custody and would be returning to the front lines again today.
By my watch Robby took off less than 24hours between arrested and then seen OTG again this morning.
Again, a theme from 2020 was how at some point getting arrested for blocking traffic or disturbing the peace just doesn't phase people anymore.
There's a rash of instance of ICE violence going viral today.
Evidently at Monday morning ICE rammed a special educators car as she pulled into work at a school in St. Paul.
The agents accused the young woman of ramming them but witnesses say it was the other way around!
The teacher was released from ICE custody after a 12 hour ordeal.
Now everyday people understand these cops are bastards and MUST be filmed at all times.
Countless ICE encounters were posted today of ICE threatening anyone filming.
This video is pretty odd though because these federal goons are actually wearing Bureau of Prisons uniforms.
A nearly identical situation was featured today on Pod Save America.
ICE agents continue to tell people to "learn their lesson" in the wake of the murder of Renee Good.
From the looks of these videos, these threats are not working and only more people are resisting ICE by simply observering their operations.
Continuing with the explosion of ICE violence in Minneapolis this week.
Agents were seen arresting a US Citizen AGAIN for simply refusing to show ID. Agents threatend to tase him repeatedly for exercising his legal right to decline to answer their questions.
Dude was just exsting and they rolled up on him and violated the constitution six ways to Sunday.
Students who returned to school staged walkouts yesterday.
📸 Sean Lim
As evening fell last night ICE continued conducting raids and protesters continued to tail them the entire time.
Last night the ICE agents seemed to just be aimlessly wandering around causing conflict, shoving random people off of sidewalks.
The even assaulted the city council presidnet of Minneapolis who was observering the ICE roving patrol.
The politicians in Minnesota are reassuring the public that there is NO statue of limitations on murder.
The Minnesota AG Keith Ellison explained in a news segment that his office will continue to build a case against Jonathan Ross.
In another distributing scene last night, a passerby saw ICE surrounding a young man in a parking lot.
The witness alleges that the man was on his knees while guns were pointed at him and agents demanded proof of citizenship.
Does that look like someone who voluntarilly gave into to an unconstitutional search to you?
The man turned out to be a US citizen, exactly as he said and is rightfully pissed to have been treated like a criminal for no reason. Teslls ICE right off.
Activist in Minneapolis are planning a "Day of Truth and Freedom" on Friday January 23rd.
They say no on should, work, shop or go to school to draw attention to the ICE invasion in Minneapolis + other parts of the country and the murder of Renee Good.
#DayofTruthandFreedom #ReneeGood #Strike #GeneralStrike #MineeapolisICE #Minnesota #Minneapolis
Meanwhile the beat just goes on and on, back at the federal building a familiar back and forth was seen again today.
Protesters wave signs, chant and heckle DHS agents protecting ICE & CBP goons coming and going from the facility.
Then DHS cops charge out, violently snatch a few protesters for minor infractions like blocking traffic all while firing off a hail of "less than lethal" ammunication.
📸 izicontreras via twitter
Amid the never ending videos of ICE violence another leak emerges.
This time a new leak is expected to beposted to icelist.is tonight. The team claims the data contains the identities of over 4000 ICE agents.
The website is suffering under the load of traffic and was unresponsive at the time I checked it.
If you've found value in this thread and want to support this type of citizen journalism on Mastodon the good news is you can help.
I have a ko-fi for myself and you can donate a few bucks.
It makes it a lot easier for me to find the time to dig through the court documents and cite as many of the sources I use as I can track down.
When people really dig into the details a know their rights & the reality it makes us that much harder to divide!
Solidarity for ever.
As I've mentioned I cite as many of the sources for video/photo & research content as I can.
Please do dig into the sources on these stories to support the on the ground journalists who are putting their freedom and health on the line to bring us these stories.
IF you know of local jail support needs please post them and let me know I'd like share. I see there were quite a few arrests today, I'm not sure if any will need bail support etc.
A horrifying story came out today of a young adult who attended an ICE protest in Santa Ana four days ago and lost an eye to ICE.
ICE agents shot him at point blank range in the face with a 40mm launcher.
“The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye,' "
The young man had to go through 6 hours of surgery and could have lost their life in this incident.
The ICE agents as usual used their "less than lethal" weapons recklessly and when you shoot someone directly in the face from inches away with a freaking grenade launcher I think that should count as attempted murder.
In Minneapolis tonight protesters have once again surrounded one of the hotels where ICE is lodging.
The noise demo made it to the front doors once again but tonight were met with a police line already form INSIDE of the hotel.
Local cops are once more directly protecting ICE.
There's original mastodon native reporting by @UnicornRiot in Minneapolis tonight.
So there's a reason we say ACAB, and we do mean ALL, is because of moments like this.
Why, on Earth are public University cops protecting an ICE invasion force?
What ICE is doing is counter to everything a higher education institution standa for.
I ask again, is it the case that the school budget is now protecting ICE instead of students and community?
Updates from streamers OTG in Minneapolis tonight indicate that local police pushed protesters away from the hotels ICE & CBP are staying in.
As of 15min ago there were sporadic arrests under unclear circamstances caught on camera.
The crowd near the hotels made the cops retreat a bit but now appears to have dispersed possibly for the night
📸 BGOnTheScene via Twitter
Back on the legistlative front cities, counties and states across the US seem to have suddenly found the will power to use their bureaucracies against ICE.
LA County is now consider formal rules that will bar ICE from using county property for staging unless they actually have a warrant signed by a judge.
And of course if they have a warrany LA County seems to be strongly suggesting to ICE that they should only be narrowly focused on the individuals actually named.
LA County has been reeling in the unnecessary shooting death of Keith Porter at the hands of an off duty ICE agent on New Years.
While Keith is not the perfect victim, he fired off a New Years gunshots in the air, this IS however a bit of an illegal American tradition in many parts of the country.
The off duty cop took it upon himself to murder Keith.
As much as I hate this dumb shit, many Americans do shoot off guns on new years. It'd be nice if no one died.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/13/keith_porter_jr_ice_shooting
In congress today Ayanna Pressley introduced the "Qualified Immunity Abolition Act of 2026" which strips ICE and other Federal cops Qualified Immunity
#AyannaPressley #MA #massachusetts #QualifiedImmunityAbolitionActof2026 #FuckICE #ICE #CBP #ReneeGood
Also today if I'm counting correctly a total of TEN Federal prosceutors resigned.
Four DOJ prosecutors resigned today and six US Attonery's Office Lawyers based in Minnesota also called it quits today.
They all say they have been asked to do unethical things. Like speed through the investigation into murderous cops Jonathan Ross or in the case of the US Atty's Office, inveistage Becca Good who survived the cop shooting.
A top Prosecutor appointed by Trump, Joe Thompson, resigned specifically because he said he wasn't allowed to investigate Jonathon Ross. But was instead told to investigate Renee Good's widow.
That crossed a line for him and he and several other lawyers opted to END their career instead of being a part of this fascist invasion.
Good on them.
Another day, another unlawful detainment of a US Citizen simply for recording ICE activity
A father was choked and illegally arrested by federal agents for exercising his rights to film police.
He was held for 9 hours and saw several other citizens illegally detained for the same thing.
Cops eventually released him without charges after his attorney got into contact with authorities.
📸 Fox 9 - https://www.fox9.com
#UnlawfulDetainment #Woodbury #StPaul #Minnesota #MinnesotaICE #ICE
Up early to read the court updates and sadly Federal Court Judge Menendez is taking a leisurely pace and refused to put in place the TRO (temporary restraining order) against DHS today.
The Feds are expected to have a formal response by Jan 19.
State of Minnesota's reply is due Jan. 22.
Next hearing for oral arguments in the case pending. Schedule is TBD.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115885943747303483
#DHS #ICELawsuit #KeithEllison #Bovino #kristinoem #minnesota
Attached: 1 image The full text of Minnesota's lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security can be read below. This suit was entered into US District court of Minnesota and if I'm reading the court calendar correctly they will be a motion hearing on Wednesday. There's some VERY alarming instances of police violence directed against State's attorney who happened to witness an ICE arrest first hand. #CourtWatch #MinnesotaICE #KeithEllison https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf #FuckICE #DHSLawsuit
This is very disappointing but not at all surprising.
It sounds unlikely that the court will act to stop ICE before the end of the month.
Video posted this morning at the Whipple Fdereal Building last night show ICE setting off "flash bang" grenades, teargas and mace as they violently arrest random people near the facility again.
This building is where countless US citizens have been illegally detained. We know these detentions are illegal because Federal and local prosecutors have hardly had any charges submitted for these individuals.
📸 reportermark via TT
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #FuckICE #minneapolis #StPaul
The politicians & judges aren't coming to our rescue this week. We're looking at at minimum a week+ of unopposed ICE snatching's of foreigners and citizens alike given the court schedule.
So I think the theme until the system decides to work has to be "we protect us"
Going to re-post some mutual aid requests from folks in Minnesota
First one is a legal aid request:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-aid-support-for-mauricio-facing-ice
#MutualAid #ICE #CourtWatch #LegalAid #minneapolis #MutualAidRequest
This one is for a man who was brutually assaulted by ICE agents last Friday in video that went viral all over the internet.
That man was homeless and lived in his car. ICE just showed up suddenly, beat him up and impound his car.
He's asking for help with legal bills, impound fees and housing.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-juan-carlos-after-assault-and-hospitalization
#Homeless #Housing #minneapolis #ICE #FuckICE #MutualAidRequest
@thelusciouslibra noticed this older mutual aid request from a family in St. Paul who needed help with legal funds & living expenses after one of the partners was snatched.
We don't really know what happened with this one but now that these issues are getting attention its important to check back in on some of these earlier victims of ICE.
IF you're looking to support a formal legal defense fund for Immigrants besure to checkout the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota:
#Immigration #ICE #minnesota #minneapolis #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #MutualAid #LegalAid
Lastly there's the Minnesota Freedom Fund which operates a bail fund.
Bail funds and jail support are critical aidlines for the many everyday people who will come into police contact because of this ICE occupation.
The fundraiser for Renee Good's family hit $1.5M raised and stopped accepting donations just two days after Renee's death.
The last update on January 9th read:
"Thank you for your generosity. We’ve closed this GoFundMe and will place the funds in a trust for the family. If you’re looking to donate, we encourage you to support others in need. We’re truly grateful."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son?modal=updates
#ReneeGood #mutualaid #ICE #minnesota #Minneapolis #Immigration #acab
In Minneapolis this morning there was a flood of viral video showing ICE in unmarked cars crashing into motorists at random and arresting the person before they can even understand what's going on.
Seems like ICEs latest tactics is to just bamboozable people and sort out the details like citizenship or immigration status later.
I'm sure they'll claim people rammed them so they "had to arrest them".
📸 JonFarinaPhoto via Twitter
As usual, anytime ICE tries to patrol on foot the first Minnesotan that won't comply is the snow.
Latest submission for #ICEonICE
Breaking, Federal agents in Minneapolis have caused another shooting in the city.
Details are still emerging updates to come.
Early reports indicate that a Hispanic teenager was shot in the leg with live ammunition by ICE agents.
There's also possibly a second victim in this ICE shooting.
nullagent
Marc Trius
oNeBiT
Quasit
Aby
东方欲晓