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**JANUARY 16, 2026**
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Donald Trump claims to be sending ICE stormtroopers in to deal with a case of welfare fraud in Minneapolis. Every part of what he says is a lie [link removed]: the supposed fraud did not happen, ICE doesn’t have anything to do with benefit policing, and even on the issue they are ostensibly in charge of—immigration enforcement—they are aimed at a community that is almost entirely American citizens.
**–Ryan Cooper, senior editor**
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Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Minneapolis [link removed]
There are reportedly about 3,000 ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) goons running riot in Minneapolis, or about five times as many officers [link removed] as are in the city police department. They have been captured on video [link removed] beating, gassing, and pepper-spraying bystanders, including legal observers [link removed]; kidnapping people, including children [link removed], off the street with no due process; and breaking into homes [link removed] without a warrant. Several people have been shot, including Renee Good [link removed], a 37-year-old mother of three, who was killed by an ICE agent shooting directly into her driver’s-side window. Another father told local news that ICE threw flash-bangs and tear gas [link removed] into his minivan containing his five children, which caused his six-month-old baby to temporarily stop breathing and lose consciousness. [link removed]
According [link removed] to residents [link removed], the basic tactic seems to be ICE convoys driving around looking for
**any** nonwhite person out by themselves, jumping out and dragging them into a van, and then driving off.
President Trump is, as usual, escalating the threats. He said he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act [link removed], which allows the president to deploy the military and federalize the National Guard in cases of insurrection, civil unrest, or rebellion. It would only be the capstone of an outrageous, criminal assault on an American city based entirely on lies.
Minneapolis residents have resisted, with considerable success. In just a few days, they have set up an elaborate nonviolent neighborhood defense [link removed] network of people who watch for ICE patrols, send the word out when they are spotted, and surround them with whistles and phones. That is seriously impeding the ICE/CBP kidnapping efforts, which appear to be quite poorly organized. During protests over Wednesday night, ICE abandoned several vehicles [link removed] full of documents and gear, including a challenge coin that looks distinctly like a Nazi
**Totenkopf**.
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A people-powered movement [link removed]: The bravery of citizens in Minneapolis is the only kind of resistance to occupation that has a chance of working.
It’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. He is heading a horde [link removed] defined by a loathing of cities and all they stand for.
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