Posted on 01/12/2026 10:35:11 PM PST by Morgana
Hundreds of Somalis stormed an ICE operation in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Monday after a Somali news station live streamed the raid.
ICE agents were surrounded by hundreds of Somalis blowing whistles and protesting as the officers conducted a raid on a Somali-owned business in a strip mall.
“ICE out! ICE out!” the mob of Somali protestors shouted.
Ice agents deployed tear gas to disperse the protestors after they blocked their vehicles from exiting the parking lot.
Democrat State Senator Aric Putnam was spotted amid the chaos trying to act like a barrier between the protestors and federal agents.
“Don’t even get close,” Putnam says as he pushes back on the protestors.
“It’s a stressful moment, a really intense confrontation. It’s a reasonable response when you see this in your neighborhood,” Democrat State Senator Aric Putnam said.
“The idea that you need 50 people with weapons and tear gas, and I’m not speaking real well because I got a little bit of pepper spray, those things are not needed for a normal, regular, authentic, genuine law enforcement operation,” Putnam whined.
According to CBS News, at least two people were arrested during the protest.
“Federal agents arrested one person as part of the raid, and later, two protesters in the parking lot. Many of the businesses there are run by the Somali community,” CBS reported.
WATCH:
Two days ago, Somalis and other protestors shouted at ICE agents in the same St. Cloud strip mall.
The agents left and returned on Monday.
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Pick them all up.
They’re not “protesters”.
They’re RIOTERS.
’ ...“The idea that you need 50 people with weapons and tear gas, and I’m not speaking real well because I got a little bit of pepper spray, those things are not needed for a normal, regular, authentic, genuine law enforcement operation,” Putnam whined....’
Sounds like they could use 50 more.
They’re invaders.
Wish we could deport them all tomorrow. With some kind of tattoo on their foreheads so they could never come back.
If they weren’t acting like Nazis, I wouldn’t soulnd like one either.
Jimmy Failla had a good joke Saturday night.
“It’s been really cold lately. It was so cold in Minnesota that somebody saw a Somali with his hands in his own pockets for once instead of somebody else’s.”
If “sanctuary cities” and states cooperated with federal law enforcement warrants and helped locate offenders, there would be no need for noisy outdoor confrontations.
But they don’t.
The spitting, swearing, name calling and shoving by the leftists against people doing their sworn jobs to arrest child rapists and others, is a terrible thing. Someday I look forward to justice being done. Maybe even within the system.
Shoot ‘em.
I think the whole state should be blockaded.
Time to federalize Walz’s national guard and detail them for ICE security.
Just change the name to Minnesomalia.
You need them for genuine riot.
And deport them.
Correct.
And should be treated as such.
Pronto.
Along with Commiefornia.
Preferably on site.
He's agitating for more resistance.
The Dem Party is a terrorist organization now. Top to bottom.
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