The rapid response networks people organized to defend their communities against federal agents seeking to kidnap, brutalize, and terrorize them have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics. Over the past month and a half of occupation, volunteers in the Twin Cities have continuously updated their rapid response model, arriving at a dynamic and resilient system. In the following...
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The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people.
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
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The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people.
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
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when it acts like it, looks like it,then.....it really is that....
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/?gift=JPpBcG1V91hbaN04g4Khsp4lCpkXDze27813gXWFaiU
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her …
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
There’s been so much documented abuse of power.
In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.
There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas.
The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE.
He disappeared while in custody.
By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state.
They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.
David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor.
He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her.
When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.
Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA.
He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him.
He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.
There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year.
He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him.
He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining
Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
It’s not a few “bad apples”.
It’s a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.
It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
How to uphold the empire.
Political cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
The Guardian: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
"...The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/us-immigration-two-year-old-minnesota-girl
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his severely disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
I wrote about Wael and how our caregivers are an extension of us.
Without them we can’t do basic activities of daily living.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
He didn’t even get to say goodbye to his father.
ICE caused his death & unnecessary suffering.
Now they’re refusing to allow Maher to attend the funeral.
Absolute ghouls.
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The Guardian: Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/ice-jewelry-heist-suspect-self-deport
This is Liam Conejo Ramos.
This is the 5 year old child ICE grabbed in Minnesota today.
They used him as bait to get his father.
They’ve sent this toddler to detention instead of letting him stay with family.
A masked man grabbed a toddler off the street in broad daylight.
It’s child trafficking.
😡
The Guardian: ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
"...Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family has an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point.
“The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.” He said there was no order of deportation against them and he believes the father and son have remained together in detention...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota
ICE is killing people in the streets, in the concentration camps and who knows where else in secret. They openly intend to stop providing medical care to the prisoners they take. They are an absolute evil.
Opposing them is the only moral position. There's no debate, nuance, or discussion necessary. Elected Democrats don't know this and it's simultaneously infuriating and terrifying. We're going to die because they can't call a spade a spade.
ICE is killing people in the streets, in the concentration camps and who knows where else in secret. They openly intend to stop providing medical care to the prisoners they take. They are an absolute evil.
Opposing them is the only moral position. There's no debate, nuance, or discussion necessary. Elected Democrats don't know this and it's simultaneously infuriating and terrifying. We're going to die because they can't call a spade a spade.
Here's the thing about the fash: They think collaboration is something you only (pretend to) do if you're not strong enough to dominate. They don't think they need anyone.
That's why they can't be trusted, ever - but it's also why, like in @pluralistic's "Masque of the Red Death", they eventually starve / shit themselves to death locked inside their sad little basement clutching a rifle, while everyone else work together to build better lives.
https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
Here's the thing about the fash: They think collaboration is something you only (pretend to) do if you're not strong enough to dominate. They don't think they need anyone.
That's why they can't be trusted, ever - but it's also why, like in @pluralistic's "Masque of the Red Death", they eventually starve / shit themselves to death locked inside their sad little basement clutching a rifle, while everyone else work together to build better lives.
https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/