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Posted on 01/29/2026 7:45:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — If there’s been a soundtrack to life in Minneapolis in recent weeks, it’s the shrieking whistles and honking horns of thousands of people following immigration agents across the city.
They are the ever-moving shadow of the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge.
They are teachers, scientists and stay-at-home parents. They own small businesses and wait tables. Their network is sprawling, often anonymous and with few overall objectives beyond helping immigrants, warning of approaching agents or filming videos to show the world what is happening.
And it’s clear they will continue despite the White House striking a more conciliatory tone after the weekend killing of Alex Pretti, including the transfer of Gregory Bovino, the senior Border Patrol official who was the public face of the immigration crackdown.
“I think that everyone slept a little better knowing that Bovino had been kicked out of Minneapolis,” said Andrew Fahlstrom, who helps run Defend the 612, a hub for volunteer networks. “But I don’t think the threat that we’re under will change because they change out the local puppets.”
Activist groups rapidly organized across deeply liberal Minneapolis-St. Paul and some suburbs. Small armies of volunteers began making food deliveries to immigrants afraid to leave their homes. They drove people to work and stood watch outside schools.
They also created interlocking webs of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rapid response networks — sophisticated systems involving thousands of volunteers who track immigration agents, communicating with encrypted apps like Signal.
Tracking often means little more than quietly reporting the movement of convoys to dispatchers and recording the license plates of possible federal vehicles.
But it’s not always quiet. Protester caravans regularly form behind immigration convoys, creating mobile protests of anger and warning that weave through city streets.
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“A shadow network in Minneapolis defies ICE and protects immigrants”
The AP again.
Immigrants do not need protection. Criminals shouldn’t.
wy69
They don’t protect immigrants. They harbor illegal aliens, many of whom are the worst criminals.
The (D-AP) is a nice touch.
/sarc
Every single one of these whistle blowers should be held without bond pending trial for treason.
And they’re funded by the Nazi war criminal George Soros.
USC 8, 1324, Arrest and Prosecute ALL of them
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At the very least, they should be arrested and put on trial for assault and disorderly conduct.
I was going to say the same thing, then I started reading and saw you beat me to it...Very smart comment...
All of Soros’ US assets should be seized under the Enemy Act. Inciting riot.
They should all be arrested. And if I ever found out that one of my employees were involved in similar activities they would be fired immediately.
The DOJ is going after the wrong people and should be taking down the money men behind all this, not the little fishes...
A shadow network in Minneapolis defies ICE and protects criminals
In much of the country these whistle blowers would end up in a wheelchair for a good long time.
So its an insurgency is what the AP is saying?
Those that need to be dealt with have exposed themselves.
Now get to work people.
ALL of these activities are felonious.
Yet our DOJ chooses not to prosecute.
By extension, POTUS refuses to prosecute.
The AP is spinning hard here. The shadow network is Soros-type billionaires and perhaps even the federal government slush fund (laundered through NGOs) funding a very well organized group of paramilitary paid agitators to deliberately provoke violent confrontations with ICE and other law enforcement with a goal of overturning federal law and ultimately, revolution.
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