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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Minnesota Public Radio ^ | December 5, 2026 | Jon Collins

Posted on 01/31/2026 7:16:04 AM PST by xxqqzz

Wednesday was Lucia Webb’s second day doing ICE watch in Minneapolis. It was just two days after the federal government launched its expanded immigration enforcement actions in the Twin Cities.

In her car, she followed federal immigration agents from south Minneapolis to a park-and-ride lot by the Minneapolis VA Medical Center’s light rail stop. That’s when her car was boxed in by four ICE vehicles and surrounded by mostly masked federal agents.

One agent told her she can’t be “chasing” them around the city. She replied that she wasn’t chasing. The agent said she was breaking the law by following them, and that he would arrest her if she didn’t stop “impeding.” Minnesota law requires vehicles to travel 500 feet behind emergency vehicles when they’re responding to an emergency, although Webb said the ICE vehicles hadn’t activated emergency lights.

The agent told her, “You can not do this.”

Webb insisted, “Yes, I can. Yes, I can.”

The 31-year-old south Minneapolis resident who works for a nonprofit, is just one of hundreds, and likely thousands, of Twin Cities residents volunteering to make ICE’s job in Minnesota as difficult as possible.

The goal of these ICE watchers, as Webb told the agents, is to protect their neighbors.

(Excerpt) Read more at mprnews.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: ice; joncollins; luciawebb; minnesotapublicradio; mpr; signalchat

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From Minnesota Public Radio from early December. Discusses the use of signal chat and thousands of people interfering with ICE agents,
1 posted on 01/31/2026 7:16:04 AM PST by xxqqzz
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The 31-year-old south Minneapolis resident who works for a nonprofit,


paid


2 posted on 01/31/2026 7:19:24 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Getting in the way isn’t watching. Fighting isn’t protesting. Arrest and prosecute.


3 posted on 01/31/2026 7:19:24 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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“The 31-year-old south Minneapolis resident who works for a nonprofit, is just one of hundreds, and likely thousands, of Twin Cities residents volunteering to make ICE’s job in Minnesota as difficult as possible.”

NON PROFIT WORKER...


4 posted on 01/31/2026 7:19:30 AM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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If anti-ICE people arrive at a 'protest'... ICE needs to just shoot out their tires.

If nothing else, that will end their attempts to blockade or to follow/impede ICE agents

5 posted on 01/31/2026 7:20:17 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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So by focusing on the appearance of the vehicle, these liberal idiots are engaging in “Profiling.”

I thought profiling was a bad thing


6 posted on 01/31/2026 7:21:28 AM PST by 5Madman2 (Practicing random acts of Douchebaggery whenever possible)
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This makes me want to go rent a black Suburban and drive around randomly.

L


7 posted on 01/31/2026 7:22:55 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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The goal of these ICE watchers, as Webb told the agents, is to protect their neighbors illegal criminal theives.

Fixed it.

8 posted on 01/31/2026 7:23:11 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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MPR wants their gov cash back


9 posted on 01/31/2026 7:23:15 AM PST by Zathras
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That changed after President Donald Trump’s comments calling Somali-Americans “garbage,”


I had a tenant who stole from me and was behind in rent. I called him a liar and a thief. He didn’t like that. I challenged him to prove me wrong and bring back my tools and pay the rent. He didn’t.

Somalis have yet to prove us wrong.


10 posted on 01/31/2026 7:23:59 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Better be sure you buy plenty of vehicle insurance at the rental counter.

Bricks and other objects thrown at vehicles can make for bad damages.


11 posted on 01/31/2026 7:25:00 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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This won’t work in Arizona. All of the cars except mine have tinted glass, the snowbirds largely have out of state plates, and a lot of people with expensive cars register them in Montana to save annual high registration fees for newer/expensive vehicles.


12 posted on 01/31/2026 7:26:03 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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“ Bricks and other objects thrown at vehicles can make for bad damages.”

So can small objects moving at 1,000 fps in the other direction.

L


13 posted on 01/31/2026 7:26:27 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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That’s “Minnesota Pubic Radio”, not Public Radio.


14 posted on 01/31/2026 7:27:15 AM PST by Da Coyote
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LAWBREAKERS ALL.

Shut down their anarchy NOW.


15 posted on 01/31/2026 7:27:53 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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Tru Dat


16 posted on 01/31/2026 7:27:55 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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Bradleys are easy to recognize, too. Just saying...


17 posted on 01/31/2026 7:28:21 AM PST by GingisK
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To: SaxxonWoods

To the fullest extent of the law.


18 posted on 01/31/2026 7:28:28 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SMARTY

That’s correct.


19 posted on 01/31/2026 7:29:41 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: stars & stripes forever

And give out any and every appropriate punishment.


20 posted on 01/31/2026 7:30:08 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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