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Minneapolis - On the Ground Report
X ^ | January 23, 2026 | Pax Americana (@1776pax)

Posted on 01/23/2026 10:24:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

Message and a story, shared with me this morning from an anonymous DHS patriot on the ground in MPLS right now:


“It is about negative 20 in Minneapolis right now. Negative 31 with windchill.

I was leaving the building we are all holed up in. I think we’ve stacked close to 2,000 people in a building designed for 500.

I ran into a grunt officer who’s been sent here from Miami. He clearly had just got back from an operation. Dude looked absolutely exhausted.

We talk a little shit about how bad the weather sucks, how tired everyone is from the op tempo.

We get outside, I ask him point blank how he feels about risking his life going up against arctic temperatures, criminals, rioters, etc.

He stops, looks at me, and says “doesn’t matter. We do the job.” Then he walks off and jumps in a car to get on ANOTHER target.

No less than 10 seconds later, one of the garage doors where teams are staging at opens, and about 15-25 guys roll out in full kit and hop in cars for a different target set.

Guys are risking it all in -40 temperatures to grab foreign invaders, getting attacked by the very same countrymen they are trying to protect, with an entire city mobilized against them.

They don’t even think of stopping for one second. They don’t eat, they barely sleep, they survive on nicotine and black coffee and the occasional MRE. Not one of the dozens if not hundreds of men I’ve talked to even thinks of quitting.

Everyone, even senior leadership, is out there right now. There’s equivalent of general officers are out there on the ground making arrests and fighting through protestors alongside their guys.

I’ve never seen commitment like this before. These men are genuine heroes. Homeric. They’re putting it all on the line every second of every day. They know that the political winds can shift and that all of the work and sacrifices and dangers could be for nothing. They even know they’ll probably face serious retribution for doing the right thing. But they don’t care, they’re still getting after it.

Please, keep these men (and women) in your prayers. They’re a force of 20,000 going up against 20 million. Do everything you can to support them. Donate to their charities, go fund me pages that stuff. Call in fake ICE locations on the trackers to distract the protestors, tell everyone you know about the good work these guys are doing. If you can help ICE and CBP in any small way, do it.

Thank you and Godspeed!”



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: ice; minneapolis; minnesota
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I found this report on Powerline Blog article by John Hinderaker "On the Ground in Minneapolis."

Mr. Hinderaker believes it is credible.

Many of the comments on X are asking how we can send support to the ICE teams in Minneapolis, how we can get them hot meals, hot coffee, hot chocolate, etc. Some commenters posted to POTUS and ELON MUSK. It would be wonderful if ICE provided information on how to support them.

A lot of the comments are by veterans who note that the tempo of the operation is what they experienced in the military.

1 posted on 01/23/2026 10:24:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

God bless and protect them all !!!!


2 posted on 01/23/2026 10:31:26 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You have to remember that many DFL MinneSomalians are A-OK with rigged elections.

They are NOT our countrymen.


3 posted on 01/23/2026 10:37:47 PM PST by an amused spectator (free New Mexico!)
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To: an amused spectator

Forty below zero wind chill....

Minnesotan wokesters and Somalians would worry about brain freeze like in Dumb and Dumber, if they had brains.


4 posted on 01/23/2026 10:46:38 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Salamander
I read these reports and remember what a milksop G.W.Bush is.

He encouraged illegals. What a dirty S.O.B.

5 posted on 01/23/2026 10:49:10 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: an amused spectator

RE: They are NOT our countrymen.

Ilhan Omar has said I will always do what is best for the interests of my country, Somalia.


6 posted on 01/23/2026 10:49:14 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: an amused spectator

They are o.k. with elections being rigged in Democrat’s favor. They never were our Countrymen. Or to put it another way, they are my Countrymen and never have been. You can have aa of them you want. But since the Politicians in D.C. don’t give a damn or care what I think or sat, it doesn’t matter. Does it?


7 posted on 01/23/2026 10:49:37 PM PST by sport
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I hate myself for supporting him

😕


8 posted on 01/23/2026 11:22:41 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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