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Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota
yahoo ^ | February 8, 2026 | Jake Offenhartz

Posted on 02/08/2026 6:28:13 AM PST by xxqqzz

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis.

They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noticed, even while parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin-based electrician advertised on the car’s doors returned no results.

On Tuesday, when their Nissan returned to the lot outside his restaurant, Ramirez, 31, filmed his confrontation with the two men, who hide their faces as he approaches and appear to be wearing heavy tactical gear beneath their yellow vests.

“This is what our taxpayer money goes to: renting these vehicles with fake tags to come sit here and watch my business,” Ramirez shouts in the video.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. But encounters like Ramirez's have become increasingly common.

As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists.

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Where past ruses were aimed at deceiving immigration targets, the current tactics may also be a response to the Minnesota's sprawling networks of citizen observers that have sought to call attention to federal agents before they make arrests.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: apsantiamericajihad; ice

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1 posted on 02/08/2026 6:28:13 AM PST by xxqqzz
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Good. Keep them paranoid.


2 posted on 02/08/2026 6:33:22 AM PST by shelterguy
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If you’re legal what’s the problem? Oh you’re not legal well leave our country.


3 posted on 02/08/2026 6:35:35 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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DOJ needs a few indictments of business owners who are hiring illegals.

Perp walk them out of their offices in handcuffs like they did Roger Stone.

L


4 posted on 02/08/2026 6:37:53 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: xxqqzz

When citizens turn on the law, the law is forced to camouflage to keep the law.


5 posted on 02/08/2026 6:39:32 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: xxqqzz

AP continues its unholy anti-America jihad journalism against ICE and for illegal immigrants.


6 posted on 02/08/2026 6:40:07 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: xxqqzz

The question raised...... did ICE get their man?


7 posted on 02/08/2026 6:42:54 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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This is what our taxpayer money goes to: renting these vehicles with fake tags to come sit here and watch my business.

Money well spent deport and nonstop.


8 posted on 02/08/2026 6:43:17 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Some judge will call this entrapment and let them all go free.


9 posted on 02/08/2026 6:43:19 AM PST by mosaicwolf
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GREAT. Use all of the tools in the toolbox.


10 posted on 02/08/2026 6:44:14 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Awesome.
These guys keep getting better at accomplishing their goals.

ICE, ICE Baby.

Trump
🇺🇸👍


11 posted on 02/08/2026 6:46:56 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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So it’s OK if illegal aliens masquerade as citizens for access to our system but it’s not OK to entrap them.
It’s SOP for LEO to run undercover operations to trap criminals. ICE is operating in the finest tradition of law enforcement. GO ICE!


12 posted on 02/08/2026 6:57:27 AM PST by JayGalt ( “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”.)
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He shouldn’t be concerned if he didn’t have anything to hide......

This problem is far deeper than we imagine.


13 posted on 02/08/2026 7:00:06 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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Keep up the good work ICE!


14 posted on 02/08/2026 7:03:34 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Yes.
I believe that the people who knowingly hire illegals, who knowingly rent to illegals will eventually need to face repercussions for harboring. If we really want to reclaim America it will need to become very difficult/impossible to live & work in America as an illegal.


15 posted on 02/08/2026 7:03:44 AM PST by JayGalt ( “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”.)
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I’m generally more afraid of democrat ruses like “vote for me, I’m sane!”.


16 posted on 02/08/2026 7:16:57 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Vaduz

The nerve of illegals making statements about the waste of taxpayer dollars on these ICE units doing their jobs. And to think literally trillions of dollars have been wasted over the past few decades on illegals for housing, medicine, nutrition, schooling, etc. Along with illegals voting by the millions, illegally of course, too. The unmitigated gall, courtesy of primarily the democrat party but with help from the RINOs. We are in deep doo doo.


17 posted on 02/08/2026 7:31:29 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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More Far Left Pro-Illegal Alien Invader SOB stories.


18 posted on 02/08/2026 7:33:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I'm boycotting the U.S. Illegal Alien Olympics team. I don't want them morons representing me.)
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Now ICE needs to deploy ICE decoys who aren’t really ICE. Even better, dupe the anti ICE people into being those decoys. Slap some DHS emblem stickers on their vehicles. Get creative people!


19 posted on 02/08/2026 7:35:32 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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If our government really wanted the illegals out of this country, they would aggressively arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate those who employ illegals. The fact that they haven't, speaks volumes.
20 posted on 02/08/2026 7:44:36 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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