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Minneapolis: Why is this city different from all other cities?
American Thinker ^ | 01/25/2026 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/25/2026 8:27:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Every Jewish child, even if he knows nothing else, knows one question: מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת. That question comes from the Passover service, when a child asks those at the table, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” The answer, of course, is that Passover is the night on which we commemorate how God liberated the Jews from Egyptian slavery, a moment that led to the seminal Ten Commandments and the return to their land.

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It is, in other words, an important question: Why is this one thing different from all other things? (For the non-Jewish among us, you can go to Sesame Street for a similar question.)

That same question applies with equal, although entirely non-religious weight, to events in Minneapolis: Why is this city different from all other cities?

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Why, in almost all cities across America, are ICE operations conducted peacefully?

Why, in almost all cities across America, are there no reports of ICE agents injuring or killing people?

Why, in almost all cities across America, are there no reports of ICE agents being rammed by cars, beaten, doused with freezing water, verbally harassed, or having their fingers bitten off?

When framed that way, it’s easy to see that the unique factor isn’t ICE, which operates smoothly and peacefully just about everywhere. Instead, the problem is a handful of radicalized Democrat-run cities (e.g., Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland). They are the common denominator, not for ICE operations, but for violence.

Nor can one say that the difference is that ICE is barely touching other cities, while it’s bringing its full weight to poor, pathetic Minneapolis, all because of anti-Somali animus. In fact, ICE is very busy elsewhere. As Kevin Bass correctly observes, the problem is the city, not the federal agency:


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 0bloggers; aliens; antifa; bloggers; commies; crime; domesticenemies; ice; illegals; leftwingnuts; leftwingviolence; minneapolis; minnesota

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In fact, ICE is very busy elsewhere. As Kevin Bass correctly observes, the problem is the city, not the federal agency:

Please note that I cannot confirm Bass’s numbers. However, we know that ICE has removed over 622,000 illegal aliens from across America, yet the only reports of violence against ICE or by ICE come from a few specific locations. The common denominator in violence isn’t ICE; it’s those cities.  

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1 posted on 01/25/2026 8:27:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It is those cities!


2 posted on 01/25/2026 8:32:44 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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"Minneapolis: Why is this city different from all other cities?"

The organized criminal organization known as the Minnesota democrat party.
3 posted on 01/25/2026 8:35:27 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
4 posted on 01/25/2026 8:37:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

MN is the hotspot for illegals and subsquently for fraud, waste and abuse. Imagine with support from the likes of Ilhan Omar most likely terrorists run amuck.


5 posted on 01/25/2026 8:53:11 PM PST by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's another reason.

The State of Minnesota is in Full Rebellion Against the United States.

Take a look at the highly organized resistance to the U.S. gov that is operating in MN. Numerous MN officials are in on it. It is an underground network that is massive in scale, well equipped and very sophisticated.

Their PRIVATE CHAT just got LEAKED. Rumble 20:26

That is a 20 min excerpt from Matt Morse' morning show today. He has the receipts and the names and fully exposes their tactics and strategies in their own words from their own recorded transmissions to their field operatives. Many of Walz' close associates are named.

The original source ... Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby 🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED

MN National Guard members ... ordered to distribute donuts, coffee and hot chocolate to anti-ice protestors. FR thread

Governor Walz' Krispy Kreme Korps

6 posted on 01/25/2026 9:00:48 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: SeekAndFind

In Florida our police work with ICE...there’s no problems here. It’s a nice place to live.


7 posted on 01/25/2026 9:09:00 PM PST by GOPJ (Trump's a Rorschach: for good or ill people see thier hidden selves in him. Protector? Bully? Savior)
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To: TigersEye

Trump should play “let’s make a deal” with Canada.

We get Alberta.

They get stuck with Minnesota.


8 posted on 01/25/2026 9:10:40 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: TigersEye

But no Tampons!

So mysogynistic.

/s


9 posted on 01/25/2026 9:12:05 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s no different from any other commie saturated urban area. Just like here in Mexifornia, there’s a lot of conservatives waiting patiently for the Marxists to get the crap stomped out of them . At some point the patience is gonna run out.


10 posted on 01/25/2026 9:14:06 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this a Passover seder or something?


11 posted on 01/25/2026 9:16:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: lightman

LOL I like it!

As a compromise, for the sake of the 47% of Minnesotans who voted for Trump, maybe Alberta could build a gulag in their most northern parts for the MN rebels.


12 posted on 01/25/2026 9:17:04 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: clearcarbon

The organized criminal organization known as the Minnesota democrat party.


Minnesota Democrat Farm Labor party. They are pinkos and don’t even hide it.


13 posted on 01/25/2026 9:19:05 PM PST by lodi90
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To: nickcarraway

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Nishtana

As an Orthodox Christian I hold the Passover in high regard for “Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast”.

—1 Corinthians 5:7-8


14 posted on 01/25/2026 9:24:11 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: clearcarbon

True.


15 posted on 01/25/2026 9:29:18 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind

Incidents ARE happening in other cities.

ICE vehicles being rammed recently in San Antonio, Los Angeles, etc.

Crazies screaming in the faces of ICE agents at a wood cutting site near Charlotte...

ICE agents harassed in Portland, Maine AND in Portland, Oregon, etc.

I’ve heard that 1,000 “protestors” have been “trained” to harass ICE when ICE ramps up operations in New York City.


16 posted on 01/25/2026 9:40:38 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He drew his gun and was shot. Did he still have his gun in hand when shot is maybe yes maybe no. Once a gun is drawn the adrenaline pumps, you go tunnel vision and into survival mode. Once he drew a gun all bets are off.

Once you have a gun in hand in offense against cops it is instant kill or be killed. It is that simple.

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I am a concealed carry person. I would never go with my weapon in that situation. It is cops and bad guys and I have no business there. I would not go there even without a weapon. The only way I would be there with a weapon is in support of law enforcement.


17 posted on 01/25/2026 9:46:17 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: TigersEye

Good work.

Too tired to read this now but I’lll wake up ready to take in this wonderful pile of info. Send coffee.


18 posted on 01/25/2026 9:52:01 PM PST by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

And I’ll bet they’re being funded by the Nazi war criminal Gyorgy Soros.


19 posted on 01/25/2026 9:54:07 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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Per Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try real hard you might get what you need!"

The left got what they wanted, a dead body, a dead body by choice of the actions of the deceased. When he drew his gun he was a dead man and justified as a dead man.

20 posted on 01/25/2026 9:54:18 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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