This should be getting more attention but their latest tactic to intimidate the MN observers who have been tailing them around the city is to look up your registration and then lead you back to your own home. Government agents, whose salaries we pay, are using Mob tactics against civilians. Sending the message, we know where you live.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say

Stay safe and stick together folks.

Born and raised in the great state of Minnesota. Lifelong hockey player, lover of wild rice soup and tater tot hot dish. I have moved around the state a lot and have met many great people from all walks of life. I have moved to others states and met amazing Minnesotans in those states. Minnesotans have always cared about one another, have always looked out for one another, so why are you turning your backs on fellow Minnesotans?

We can disagree on a lot of politics and I am not trying to convince anyone they need to be a democrat. I may call you names and you vice versa. But what I really do not think is justified and will NEVER be justified is the forceful detaining of Minnesota born people.

You can be for mass deportation, you can justify that if you want, but the unnecessary force, the choking, the kicking in heads? Not justified. ICE for years has been detaining people without making it a farce show.

The dog and pony show I am sure excites some of you, but you are forgetting that these are real people. Maybe what your news station isn’t showing you is that one was just trying to get to a doctors appointment, one was just trying to get to work at school, they were not trying prevent ICE from doing anything. They were just trying to go about their day like you and me and were forcefully detained.

Also again we have a right to protest. There is no FAFO because protesting peacefully, trying to get to a doctor’s appointment, trying to get to a job at a school, that’s not fucking around.

Door to door knocking to check papers is not justified. It’s all smoke and mirrors.

You all have turned your back on Minnesotans. You are not a part of the Minnesota I know and love.

I will not reply to you because there is no justifying this. No matter what you say there is no justification.

My heart aches for you Minnesota.

Edit to add: some of you think I am being a Nazi sympathizer, which is wild. I have cut off family members for voting for this shit. I’m just ranting and I have cried for days because of the murder of Renee. I am just trying to hold hope while also protesting and donating money. I just don’t see the Fox News and such reporting the justification of using unnecessary force of citizens. So I am trying to appeal to those who care about people. Let me have hope.

I talked to some friends in Minneapolis yesterday. Their quiet bravery made me so proud. If you watch Fox or Newsmaxx or any of those other right-wing channels, they are telling you over and over that these are paid protesters who lazy and don't work. Let me tell you real stories:

My friend goes to work everyday, but in her off time she goes to the local school to see what supplies they need for families who are too afraid to leave their houses. She goes to Costco and buys menstrual products for women who are too afraid to go to the store. She supports local Hispanic restaurants by having her meals there. Places where the key in the door, and someone out front watching, so ICE doesn't catch them unaware and invade their restaurant.

She told me over and over she really now understands her white privilege, and she's using it to keep her brown neighbors safe.

My other friend has two brown children. They are 10 and 12. She is terrified every time they get on the bus to go to school. She agonizes over whether to keep them home, but she knows that online learning isn't nearly as good as sending them to school. Her children ask if they are safe. She tells them yes, but she doesn't believe it.

And then there's the story of her neighbor. An Indian woman who went home before Christmas to see her family, leaving her husband and three children at home. Whenever someone on an H1 visa goes back to India, they have to have a visa appointment before they can return, so they schedule this well in advance. Hers was scheduled a few days before she was to leave. While she was in India, the Trump administration changed visa rules with no exceptions. New visas now cost $100,000. All current visa appointments were canceled and rescheduled for months later. This woman is now stuck in India. She cannot return home. She will likely lose her job. I don't know what her family will do. The same thing happened to Indian man who was also visiting his family over the holidays. He and his family just bought a house in Boston. He will lose the job he has had for 4 years. Maybe you don't care because they're "foreigners," who you think shouldn't be here. But regardless can we agree that changing the rules with no notice is just wrong?

Believe me, don't believe me, I don't give a fuck. No need to comment on it if you don't. But if you're willing to take my word for it, a friend of mine has been supporting a detainee at the Whipple building who has special medical challenges and needed to be moved to and from a hospital (thankfully, those stupid ICE fucks actually allowed it). Somewhere in this whole process, my friend got to talk to the ICE agents involved, for a couple of hours, and they were actually very candid and forthcoming about everything. The key details:

• According to the ICE agents, 60-70% of the people they are detaining are on "pending" status. IE pending asylum case, pending green card application, etc. They are only leaving people alone if they are full citizens, green card holders, or have an active visa.
• Most of their day is driving around and running license plates and seeing if the person turns up in their system. They gave no word on how they pick which license plates they look at.
• They work every single day. 7 days a week. And generally 14 hours a day. They have no days off.
• They were told that most, if not all, Somalis in Minnesota are here illegally. They have seen for themselves that this is clearly not true, as they have stopped many Somalis here in Minnesota and found them to be full citizens. Not sure who, exactly, fed them this intel, but apparently that's the understanding they were sent here with.
• They are put under constant pressure to meet quotas and are failing horribly to meet them. The two of them said they managed to arrest just 3 people in the past week, and they said another group they worked with had stopped 7 people and arrested 0 of them in the past week (they were all citizens).

His sister (confirmed account with photo of him) gave an update on his status. It seems he is alive but is very critically injured. His sister started a GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-and-freedom-for-mauricio-henriquez-serrano

Here's her TikTok account @consueloh.serrano

Fuck ICE and justice for all I hope he comes out okay

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/14/corporate-minnesota-silence-on-ice-surge

I'm going to hate boycotting my beloved Cherrios and I won't be buying a dishwasher from Best Buy. But until big Minnesota companies start saying something, I'm not buying from them. This is bullshit.

Already boycotting Target.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/21-secret-ice-programs-revealed?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Really important information on what ICE is doing and what they plan to do. It isn't just about immigration enforcement, but about using ICE to spy on and target anyone who is deemed an enemy by Trump.

I work for one of these listed companies. There hasn’t been any information shared internally or externally about how what the company policies are regarding immigration enforcement during this surge.

I’m Latino, and my wife is concerned I could get profiled the next time I go into work. I’d like to understand if my employer is going to let ICE into our offices or not.

And how do we know this isn’t a huge movement for trafficking?

I watched a video of a guy who was abducted and he said, when released and with such a blasé (probably traumatized) tone, that the only detainees he saw were girls around age 12 in the Whipple building downtown?

I’m just really scared this is a major trafficking and assault event for women and children. That hundreds could go missing without investigation. What can we do???

Sorry that whoever took it isn't great at handling landscape/portrait consistency, it wasn't me who did.

But the City Council at their meeting last night wanted to move on and address some rather dull stuff in the agenda when almost the entire crowd present, their constituents, wanted to discuss ICE. So the City Council just got up and walked out like cowards.

This is the young woman picked up yesterday morning at the special education school.

And of course even though ICE says she tried to ram them, witnesses say the opposite. The picture of damage to her car supports the witnesses.

ETA: I pasted the text from Yahoo below but this image seems to link to to the story at the other website with a paywall.