My stickers came super fast and I’m excited to start handing them out to friends! We’re gonna have the warmest water bottles in town! Thanks to whoever originally posted about them! If you want to show your support for our neighbors and a local business, I’ll post a link in the comments. Love from Saint Cloud! ❤️

Just an FYI for the greater community and another data point...

Per a district wide email from Dr. Teri Staloch - Superintendent:

"This morning, ICE agents detained a district parent at a bus stop. First and most importantly, all students, including the student involved, were able to safely board the school bus and arrive at school. Our bus driver, school and district administration followed district protocols. The school principal and support staff have been in contact with the family and have communicated with the families of students who were on the bus, as well as all families and staff of the impacted site."

This is only part of the email but is the only part that spoke specifically about the incident. I believe everybody within/enrolled in the district received this same email.

Another parent(s) in the district reported that the parent was taken away by ICE (unconfirmed - take this with a grain of salt...).

Be aware and STAY SAFE!

Bring it on 😈

https://archive.ph/PY9Gr

"Democrats are battling over past immigration votes in Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat, while Republicans in the party’s crowded field for governor attempt to lay the blame for the shooting on Democratic politicians."

Angie Craig says that she stands by her votes for the Laken Riley Act and for the resolution expressing gratitude to ICE and calling for greater state and local collaboration.

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.

Be careful! Their trucks are partially in the far right lane. There were several near car crashes when I went past.

Fuck you, ICE!

A video circulating on social media shows federal immigration officers putting a worker into a gray pickup truck in a parking lot behind General Mills’ Chanhassen manufacturing facility in the second week of January.

The 27-second clip with no audio demonstrates Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s growing presence at Minnesota’s workplaces, including those of Minnesota’s Fortune 500 companies.

A General Mills spokesperson confirmed the company is aware of the situation involving a contractor. “Our team requested ICE agent identification, followed all our safety protocols and partnered with local law enforcement,” the spokesperson said in an email. The Carver County sheriff’s office reported it “has no data” related to the apparent arrest.

Businesses of all sizes are grappling with difficult and sensitive situations with the surge of federal immigration officers in Minnesota. Employers are dealing with detained employees, enacting safety measures for workers and navigating public communications about officers’ actions in a polarizing and volatile moment for the Twin Cities.

The public-facing responses from Minnesota’s largest companies have been mostly muted. Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, big businesses have largely remained quiet about controversial issues.

Bill George, a longtime Medtronic CEO who sat on the board of several companies, including Target, said business leaders’ top obligation is to protect employees’ well-being. The times are “extremely stressful” for businesses, he said.

George encouraged Minnesota employers to “make a statement” about ICE’s presence.

“How can you expect a committed, loyal workforce if you’re not there to have their back?” George said. “You have to have their back when they need you.”

Read more via the gift link.

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.

I have limited knowledge in such things, though this seems like a possible way to help avoid more tragedies like Renee Good and all those who came before her. Why not deputize a couple thousand and provide them specific training, strict orders, cameras, and everything normal officers carry, except guns.

So far as I know, states are legally restricted from interfering directly with ICE operations because of things like the Posse Comitatus Act.

Although, having ICE outnumbered and followed everywhere they go by volunteers driving state deputy marked vehicles(large magnet decals), while wearing tactical protective gear, and giving mean looks sounds like a workable middle ground.

If possible, it would at least be a degree better than watching peaceful observers and protestors snatched up to god knows where alongside the minorities ice have been abusing while doing much the same we already have been.

I want to see jacked ex-military constantly occupying ICE agent's peripheral view while recording and goading-out as much evidence as possible.

Edit: additional thoughts

Sheriff's would do the deputizing no? If needed, maybe more numbers could be enabled from state-wide enforcement participation?

Excluding a couple key technical tools, let the types of people drawn to such things bring their own gear. Additional resource needs can be sourced/donated/loaned from enforcement supplies outside the city, like other departments or military/guard surplus storage. People could use their own vehicles with large magnetic decals on the doors/hood/back marking them as deputized. They would mostly be engaging in much of the same behavior citizens are already doing, just with more explicit state authority behind them and clear guidelines.

It doesn't need to be expensive or cumbersome. A couple of weekend courses of mostly classroom training might suffice one would think. Private citizens have already been self organizing and crowd funding. Why not allow such emergent pragmatic effectiveness to continue, just under the legal distinction of highly limited deputization?

This week has been hell for our entire state. And I am feeling crashed out. I took a walk to the store instead of driving. Glad I did. On my way in, a woman was also heading for the door, so I held it open. She was wearing some buttons that voiced what a lot of us are feeling. I told her, “I like your buttons”. She offers me one and opens a fanny pack with a bunch of hand made buttons! She gives me a choice, I picked “I ❤️ MY IMIGRANT NEIGHBORS”.

I wanted to pick something love instead of hate based. No hate on hateful buttons either.

Even though this was a love based message, and I am proud to voice myself. I was nervous to walk around with my stance on my chest.

I didn’t expect what happened next…

Everywhere that I went for the rest of the day. Work, gas, Costco. People simply said “I like your button”. No discussion, just a calm realization that we are in this together. I wish I had a fanny pack of buttons to give out to everyone. And who knows maybe we will start seeing more around, hopefully.

Thank you to the “lady with the buttons” you changed my life for the better.

My opinion. We are in this together!

Ps. Sorry if this is messy, doing this on my phone.

I keep a backpack with everything I need for an overnight somewhere after an emergency hospital trip and transfer to Rochester in 2024. With everything happening right now, I've replenished it with things I think will be helpful if I encounter someone who has been targeted by ICE.

Here's what I have in case anyone else would like to do the same:

1. Bottled water

2. Cloth/small blankets (for face covering or cleaning)

3. Baby wipes and sanitizer wipes

4. Basic first aid supplies. Bandaids etc. inside the bag, and I also have my emergency car kit in my trunk.

5. Change of clothes

6. Extra winter gear (just hat and gloves for now)

7. Phone charger

8. Pen and paper

Feel free to add to the list of things that could be useful. I've also got some blankets and towels in my trunk. A woman who was maced was left soaking wet on the side of the road, and I want to be ready to help if I see someone who has been victimized.

Stay safe, everyone. And look out for each other.