We're LIVE in FREEZING Minneapolis as thousands march as part of statewide general strike against ICE; hundreds of businesses are closed, union workers are skipping work, and people aren't shopping
Thank you for standing behind us. Absolutely disgusting what trump has directed his SS gestapo to do to here just because we are a Blue state and our governor ran against him.
Why don't businesses in Minnesota ban ice from using their establishments. We have the right to refuse service to anyone. No water. No gas. No food. No sleep areas. No shopping. No bathrooms. Cut them off of everything. They may want to rethink what they're doing.
Yes - Cut Off EVERYTHING! They are starving & putting the ppl in uncomfortable situations, locked inside, with your children crying afraid they’ll be taken or their parents will be. Looks like trump is doing what Putin IS doing in Ukraine in OUR COUNTRY - GOD BE WITH THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON & WHAT TO DO, BUT SHIVER & CRY IN A CLOSET HIDING IN FEAR!
😭😰Remember, when we were little & were told to go under our desks, in bomb air raids testing, away from your parents, waiting if something might happen & kill everyone we ever knew! I did 😱
How about all those families dying in Ukraine because of rump and putin!! Oh and the house passed the bill to give more funding to ice. Like rump will use that money for that. It'll go in an off shore account in quatar. Now we see what weak little democratic in the senate vote for it. Absolutely ridiculous
If thousands of minnesotans, Midwestern gentle people are out protesting by the thousands in some zero weathers what does that tell you not how seriously bad the ice Nazis are?
Trump badly misjudged the American people. Though his motive for deploying ICE was blatantly racist, he assumed his plan to deport millions of People of Color would be widely popular. It is not. Only a third of Americans support Trump’s attempt to overthrow our Constitutional Republic and replace it with a Fascist, White-Supremacist, Christian-Nationalist Kleptocracy ruled by the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.
No amount of preening by Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and Bovino can coverup the fact that Republicans are using physical violence in a desperate attempt to stay in power. ICE Bounty Hunters—encouraged by their treasonous supervisors—routinely use violence to fill their racist quota of brown-skin-prey. And sometimes, because they know Trump has their backs, they murder—just to remind Americans that Republicans believe they are above the law.
Minneapolis resident being interviewed right now by @Status Coup News. His eyelashes are covered in ice crystals.
The interviewer: It is brutally cold out here…The wind is howling down the street.
Having spent some of my childhood in Finland, I have so respect for the journalists on the ground in this cold. I know it’s cold for everyone, but the Minnesotans know how to do cold.
The more they are out on the streets the more those big babies from ICE has to be out there freezing their man boobs off.
I'm sharing this thoughtful piece from a writer here in Minnesota.
He asks why are so many ICE and Border Patrol here when MN has relatively few immigrants? What is ICE doing here when detaining violent criminals hasn't been a focus
Our immigration policy has been broken. Why hasn't bi-partisan legislation been implimented? Where do we go from here?
Yesterday, more than 600 clergy from many faiths as well as agnostic/atheist leaders are gathered in the Twin Cities. A group of clergy protested at MSP international airport today and may still be in jail, intentionally.
Thousands of ICE OUT! protesters gathered in -10 (-15 w windchill) in downtown MPLS, then walked 9 blocks to an indoor venue.
In solidarity, labor unions are on strike today, which hasnt happened since in the mid-'40's. Businesses and schools closed.
Here's the piece. Food for thought - and action!
There are approximately 22,000 ICE agents in the United States.
Right now, 3,000 of them are in Minnesota.
If the 22,000 were divided equally among the states, there would be 440 ICE agents here (still too many). Instead, we have almost seven times that number of ICE agents.
The army may be on the way.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants in Minnesota is 130,000. I know from experience that some portion of them live here seasonally (i.e. they are not here in the winter). Still, even at 130,000, that’s 1 ICE agent to 43 unauthorized immigrants.
Very, very few of the immigrants here are the “violent criminals” the administration claims it is targeting.
Many immigrants here lawfully have been targeted by ICE violence; many citizens have been targeted.
Targeting everyone necessarily means less focus on the so-called violent criminals.
The daily cost for all this? The hotels and vehicles, the unlawful detentions and unnecessary relocations, the intentional car collisions, tear gas canisters and baton rounds and litigation and theatrics and all of it? Expensive. Wasteful. Illogical. Dumb.
And, of course, too many ICE agents here means too few somewhere else.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants in Florida is 1.6 million (12 times the number in Minnesota). For Texas it’s 2 million (15x MN). In California, it’s 2.2 million (17x MN).
In other words, if agents were allocated based on need, we would have even fewer in Minnesota.
If you are a person who supports this administration’s approach to immigration enforcement, I would encourage you to read up on what is happening in Minnesota, but also, I would ask, “does this approach seem logical to you?” Does it seem likely to lead to the (purported) desired outcome - public safety?
Let’s be crystal clear about three things.
First, what is happening in Minnesota every day is making our streets unsafe. The daily level of gratuitous violence visited upon immigrants, citizens, families, children, infants, and the elderly should offend all people of conscience and stir them to action. School, work, and community life is largely disrupted in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and their suburbs. Many people are sheltering in place, schools have gone online, businesses are closed or their doors are locked so they can control who enters. If a restaurant has a drive through, it’s a safe bet only the drive through is open. Yesterday, while working at a coffee shop, I saw a restaurant worker, who had just ended her shift across the street, get escorted to a waiting car. Everyone - the worker, the escorts, and the driver - was on high alert. Many people here live on high alert these days. “This is what it takes,” I found myself thinking, “this is the energy it takes to get one worker home safely.”
The daily physical, psychological, emotional, social, financial and psychic toll felt by many Minnesotans is, put simply, unsafe and unsustainable.
As I watched the worker safely make it to the waiting car, a few miles away ICE was using a five-year-old boy as bait to lure a family out of a house. That five year old (here lawfully) and his father (here lawfully) are now in El Paso, Texas.
Every day some school children here don’t get picked up after school. Their families have been abducted.
Second, our immigration system has been broken for decades, and it stays broken on purpose. So many U.S. industries rely on immigrants, documented and not, to do jobs Americans won’t do. Many employers use immigrants to get away with paying unlivable and unjust wages. Not only employers rely on immigrants, all of us consumers do too.
A broken immigration system is an effective wedge issue for conservatives who have cultivated a base that is activated by culture war issues, identity politics, and grievance. They want our immigration system to stay broken. That’s why, in 2024, Trump, as a candidate, shot down bipartisan immigration reform legislation.
[And while I hated many aspects of that legislation, shooting it down and not replacing it with anything except financially and morally expensive violence, speaks volumes.]
Third, I am in no way advocating for moving the violence and cruelty happening in Minnesota to other states. I’m saying the violence and cruelty happening here, in addition to being inhumane, is highly unlikely to lead to the claimed desired outcome - public safety.
If the goal were safer streets in America, there is no way you would deploy resources like this and allow agents to target people (both indiscriminately and discriminatorily) like this.
I’m saying therefore public safety isn’t the desired outcome. The desired outcomes are clearly: violence, cruelty, ethnic cleansing, retribution, racism, grievance, and theater. What’s happening in Minnesota is a vehicle for sociopathic blood lust; it’s red meat for reprobates.
I think a lot of what is happening here is rooted in Trump’s hatred of Walz. It’s about Trump’s fragile ego and the 2024 election. It’s because Minnesota is a blue state. It’s doesn’t hurt that Kristi Noem, like many South Dakota conservatives, hates the Twin Cities. It has more to do with whatever is wrong with Gregory Bovino and Stephen Miller, than it does with public safety.
Immigrants and Minnesotans and every American are paying a heavy the price for all of it.
______________________
Image Description: a young boy wearing an elephant hat, a flannel jacket, and a backpack, stands near a black SUV, while an ICE agent keeps hold of his backpack. lf
Might be a good time to inform the bastards kidnapping five year olds about the Second Amendment. Just in case those masked cowards think about ignoring the Fourth Amendment.
I just saw Rep. Mike Lawler (R) New York say that the Nazi who murdered Renee Good was injured because he was hit by her car which is an absolute lie. With chicken shits like him, we are going be in a living hell for 3 more years. Living like this is really getting stressful.
in solidarity from California! 👊🏼
Thank you for standing behind us. Absolutely disgusting what trump has directed his SS gestapo to do to here just because we are a Blue state and our governor ran against him.
From Cali, too!🙋♀️💪🏻🌊💙🔵🪧🦋 #solidarity
Day of Truth and Freedom: Minnesota’s General Strike builds on the legacy of 10 major worldwide movements
https://embed.kumu.io/3a41bcdf30d39de2cd11b2ef676dfb7e
Why don't businesses in Minnesota ban ice from using their establishments. We have the right to refuse service to anyone. No water. No gas. No food. No sleep areas. No shopping. No bathrooms. Cut them off of everything. They may want to rethink what they're doing.
Yes - Cut Off EVERYTHING! They are starving & putting the ppl in uncomfortable situations, locked inside, with your children crying afraid they’ll be taken or their parents will be. Looks like trump is doing what Putin IS doing in Ukraine in OUR COUNTRY - GOD BE WITH THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON & WHAT TO DO, BUT SHIVER & CRY IN A CLOSET HIDING IN FEAR!
😭😰Remember, when we were little & were told to go under our desks, in bomb air raids testing, away from your parents, waiting if something might happen & kill everyone we ever knew! I did 😱
How about all those families dying in Ukraine because of rump and putin!! Oh and the house passed the bill to give more funding to ice. Like rump will use that money for that. It'll go in an off shore account in quatar. Now we see what weak little democratic in the senate vote for it. Absolutely ridiculous
Some of the hotels ICE were staying at refused to renew their stays. I'm guessing there's more but we don't know about it.
That’s what I have saying. I totally agree.
I don't understand why the people in Minnesota arent doing this. They have no obligations to ice
Standing with everyone in MN from the next State being invaded, Maine
Maine has lost its common sense like Minnesota.
Wake up!
In Solidarity from New Jersey! Just re stacked and shared this post! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🪶 RIBBIT RESIST REPEAT
If thousands of minnesotans, Midwestern gentle people are out protesting by the thousands in some zero weathers what does that tell you not how seriously bad the ice Nazis are?
Inspired in the Great Northwest!
Trump badly misjudged the American people. Though his motive for deploying ICE was blatantly racist, he assumed his plan to deport millions of People of Color would be widely popular. It is not. Only a third of Americans support Trump’s attempt to overthrow our Constitutional Republic and replace it with a Fascist, White-Supremacist, Christian-Nationalist Kleptocracy ruled by the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.
No amount of preening by Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and Bovino can coverup the fact that Republicans are using physical violence in a desperate attempt to stay in power. ICE Bounty Hunters—encouraged by their treasonous supervisors—routinely use violence to fill their racist quota of brown-skin-prey. And sometimes, because they know Trump has their backs, they murder—just to remind Americans that Republicans believe they are above the law.
https://substack.com/@annaliisavilppu/note/c-204097534?r=2vb0i9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Minneapolis resident being interviewed right now by @Status Coup News. His eyelashes are covered in ice crystals.
The interviewer: It is brutally cold out here…The wind is howling down the street.
Having spent some of my childhood in Finland, I have so respect for the journalists on the ground in this cold. I know it’s cold for everyone, but the Minnesotans know how to do cold.
The more they are out on the streets the more those big babies from ICE has to be out there freezing their man boobs off.
We your MSP Jan. 23rd VIDEOS
https://open.substack.com/pub/ojaiohana/p/videos-msp-airport-work-stoppage?r=5chxge&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Believe in you from Oregon! 🙏💙
I'm sharing this thoughtful piece from a writer here in Minnesota.
He asks why are so many ICE and Border Patrol here when MN has relatively few immigrants? What is ICE doing here when detaining violent criminals hasn't been a focus
Our immigration policy has been broken. Why hasn't bi-partisan legislation been implimented? Where do we go from here?
Yesterday, more than 600 clergy from many faiths as well as agnostic/atheist leaders are gathered in the Twin Cities. A group of clergy protested at MSP international airport today and may still be in jail, intentionally.
Thousands of ICE OUT! protesters gathered in -10 (-15 w windchill) in downtown MPLS, then walked 9 blocks to an indoor venue.
In solidarity, labor unions are on strike today, which hasnt happened since in the mid-'40's. Businesses and schools closed.
Here's the piece. Food for thought - and action!
There are approximately 22,000 ICE agents in the United States.
Right now, 3,000 of them are in Minnesota.
If the 22,000 were divided equally among the states, there would be 440 ICE agents here (still too many). Instead, we have almost seven times that number of ICE agents.
The army may be on the way.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants in Minnesota is 130,000. I know from experience that some portion of them live here seasonally (i.e. they are not here in the winter). Still, even at 130,000, that’s 1 ICE agent to 43 unauthorized immigrants.
Very, very few of the immigrants here are the “violent criminals” the administration claims it is targeting.
Many immigrants here lawfully have been targeted by ICE violence; many citizens have been targeted.
Targeting everyone necessarily means less focus on the so-called violent criminals.
The daily cost for all this? The hotels and vehicles, the unlawful detentions and unnecessary relocations, the intentional car collisions, tear gas canisters and baton rounds and litigation and theatrics and all of it? Expensive. Wasteful. Illogical. Dumb.
And, of course, too many ICE agents here means too few somewhere else.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants in Florida is 1.6 million (12 times the number in Minnesota). For Texas it’s 2 million (15x MN). In California, it’s 2.2 million (17x MN).
In other words, if agents were allocated based on need, we would have even fewer in Minnesota.
If you are a person who supports this administration’s approach to immigration enforcement, I would encourage you to read up on what is happening in Minnesota, but also, I would ask, “does this approach seem logical to you?” Does it seem likely to lead to the (purported) desired outcome - public safety?
Let’s be crystal clear about three things.
First, what is happening in Minnesota every day is making our streets unsafe. The daily level of gratuitous violence visited upon immigrants, citizens, families, children, infants, and the elderly should offend all people of conscience and stir them to action. School, work, and community life is largely disrupted in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and their suburbs. Many people are sheltering in place, schools have gone online, businesses are closed or their doors are locked so they can control who enters. If a restaurant has a drive through, it’s a safe bet only the drive through is open. Yesterday, while working at a coffee shop, I saw a restaurant worker, who had just ended her shift across the street, get escorted to a waiting car. Everyone - the worker, the escorts, and the driver - was on high alert. Many people here live on high alert these days. “This is what it takes,” I found myself thinking, “this is the energy it takes to get one worker home safely.”
The daily physical, psychological, emotional, social, financial and psychic toll felt by many Minnesotans is, put simply, unsafe and unsustainable.
As I watched the worker safely make it to the waiting car, a few miles away ICE was using a five-year-old boy as bait to lure a family out of a house. That five year old (here lawfully) and his father (here lawfully) are now in El Paso, Texas.
Every day some school children here don’t get picked up after school. Their families have been abducted.
Second, our immigration system has been broken for decades, and it stays broken on purpose. So many U.S. industries rely on immigrants, documented and not, to do jobs Americans won’t do. Many employers use immigrants to get away with paying unlivable and unjust wages. Not only employers rely on immigrants, all of us consumers do too.
A broken immigration system is an effective wedge issue for conservatives who have cultivated a base that is activated by culture war issues, identity politics, and grievance. They want our immigration system to stay broken. That’s why, in 2024, Trump, as a candidate, shot down bipartisan immigration reform legislation.
[And while I hated many aspects of that legislation, shooting it down and not replacing it with anything except financially and morally expensive violence, speaks volumes.]
Third, I am in no way advocating for moving the violence and cruelty happening in Minnesota to other states. I’m saying the violence and cruelty happening here, in addition to being inhumane, is highly unlikely to lead to the claimed desired outcome - public safety.
If the goal were safer streets in America, there is no way you would deploy resources like this and allow agents to target people (both indiscriminately and discriminatorily) like this.
I’m saying therefore public safety isn’t the desired outcome. The desired outcomes are clearly: violence, cruelty, ethnic cleansing, retribution, racism, grievance, and theater. What’s happening in Minnesota is a vehicle for sociopathic blood lust; it’s red meat for reprobates.
I think a lot of what is happening here is rooted in Trump’s hatred of Walz. It’s about Trump’s fragile ego and the 2024 election. It’s because Minnesota is a blue state. It’s doesn’t hurt that Kristi Noem, like many South Dakota conservatives, hates the Twin Cities. It has more to do with whatever is wrong with Gregory Bovino and Stephen Miller, than it does with public safety.
Immigrants and Minnesotans and every American are paying a heavy the price for all of it.
______________________
Image Description: a young boy wearing an elephant hat, a flannel jacket, and a backpack, stands near a black SUV, while an ICE agent keeps hold of his backpack. lf
Might be a good time to inform the bastards kidnapping five year olds about the Second Amendment. Just in case those masked cowards think about ignoring the Fourth Amendment.
Much love to Minnesotans from your northern neighbor, we too know how to do winter, and we don’t take to bullies and criminals.
The people of MN definitely know the assignment! Great interviews with great people!
I just saw Rep. Mike Lawler (R) New York say that the Nazi who murdered Renee Good was injured because he was hit by her car which is an absolute lie. With chicken shits like him, we are going be in a living hell for 3 more years. Living like this is really getting stressful.
Too many think this could not happen to them.