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ICE in Minnesota – Days 65-66: Feds Make Arrests in Government Center as Local Police Advance Collaboration

4 months 3 weeks ago

Operation Metro Surge has entered its 66th day, representing more than two months of continuous incursion into the Twin Cities and the state as a whole by aggressive, anonymous, and largely unaccountable federal agents.

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By Unicorn Riot

SF Students Walkout for Massive Anti-ICE Action

4 months 3 weeks ago
On January 30, students and workers across the Bay Area walked out in solidarity with the national day of action. Leon Kunstenaar reports, "The messages went out 'Fuera ICE, ICE Out. Shut Everything Down!', 'No Work!' Cities throughout the nation responded and San Francisco was no exception. Seventy five percent of students in the city's high schools went out. A student carried a sign that read, 'We are skipping our lessons to teach YOU one.'"

TPS Hearing Temporarily Stalls Deportations of Haitians

4 months 3 weeks ago
With the Temporary Protection Status granted to 350,000 Haitians set to expire on February 3, a hearing was held the day prior, in US District Court in Washington, DC, to halt an action by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to end the program. During the Washington court proceeding, human rights advocates in San Francisco rallied outside the US Immigration Court to denounce the administration’s enforcement agenda and demand sweeping policy changes.

ICE in Minnesota – Days 63-64: Gov’t Lawyers Quit En Masse, Pretti Killing Ruled Homicide, Minneapolis Peace Prize Nominee

4 months 3 weeks ago

Minneapolis – On the heels of a supposed “drawdown” in federal immigration enforcement throughout the Twin Cities metro area, protesters are continuing to show up and confront the federal occupation of Minnesota. 

Tactics have evolved, with communities setting up anti-ICE check points to hinder ICE…

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By Unicorn Riot

ICE in Minnesota – Days 57-62: Masses Protest ICE While Violence Continues and Feds Indict Journalists

5 months ago

Minneapolis, MN – In the week after the third shooting, and second killing, by federal law enforcement in the Twin Cities, the landscape has somewhat shifted while the federal occupation under Operation Metro Surge has continued its violent ways; tens of thousands of community members…

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By Unicorn Riot

Key Minnesota DFL Leader Resigns After Vehicular Homicide Charge; Party Under Pressure Risks Major Rifts

5 months ago

Cyndy Martin, the former chair of the Democratic Party across the vast 8th Congressional District, is awaiting a grim vehicular homicide trial, after being charged in Itasca County with killing Carter Haithcock.

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By Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot

Independent Journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon Arrested by Feds Along With Three More Activists

5 months ago

A week after arresting three activists over protesting an ICE director who pastors in a church, federal agents made five additional arrests, this time targeting two journalists who covered the protest -- Georgia Fort and Don Lemon -- and three other participants.

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By Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot

Slavery is Legal in Minnesota. These Groups are Working to Change That.

5 months ago

Minneapolis, MN – Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the…

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By Sean Summers, Unicorn Riot

ICE Out Everywhere! January 30 National Day Of Action

5 months ago
On January 30, students and workers across the Bay Area walked out and met at Dolores Park in San Francisco and Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland. Arab Resource and Organizing Center wrote, "We support the call from Minnesota-based Somali and other student organizations... join the national day of action to say ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! Now is the decisive moment. The Minnesota General Strike has opened a historic opening."

ICE Out of Super Bowl and End the Deportations

5 months ago
Over 1000 protested on Sunday, February 8, against ICE near Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Community Service Organization San José demanded, "ICE Out of the Superbowl and End the Deportations!" As part of the ramp up to the Super Bowl, on February 6, protesters converged at the ICE office in Morgan Hill. On February 5, a protest against Palantir was held in Palo Alto. Organizers said, "Let's pressure them to end their complicity."

ICE in Minnesota – Days 51-56: Bovino Removed After Pretti Killing; Noise Demo Drives Out Agents; ‘ICE Out’ Day of Action in Twin Cities

5 months 1 week ago

Operation Metro Surge continues to weigh on Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota as a whole. The federal government has increasingly targeted the state government and local leaders who have engaged in widespread and organized resistance to ICE’s campaign in the region.

Resistance has continued, and…

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By Unicorn Riot

Tens of Thousands Demand ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ During Day of Action

5 months 1 week ago

Minneapolis, MN — As businesses shuttered, schools closed and people called off work for Friday’s popular ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day, tens of thousands participated in actions demanding ICE cease their operations in the state. Around 100 people were arrested in morning protests.

The “Day…

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By L. Cam Anderson, Contributor and Niko Georgiades and Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot

Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis

5 months 1 week ago

Minneapolis, MN – Federal agents shot and killed a man in the Whittier neighborhood of South Minneapolis after he tried to render aid to a woman who had just been maced.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was shot nearly 10 times while laying on the side…

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By L. Cam Anderson, Contributor and Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot

Immigration Protester Faces Terrorism Charges, Deportation as Trial Approaches

5 months 1 week ago

Alvarado, TX — On February 17, 2026, the trial of nine people connected to a July 4, 2025 protest outside Alvarado, Texas’s Prairieland immigration detention center begins. Daniel “Des” Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn’t even at the protest — his wife was — but prosecutors have…

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By Andrew Lee, Contributor

Students Across Nevada County Walkout to Resist Fascism

5 months 1 week ago
A revolutionary student writes, "On January 20th students across Nevada County walked out to protest the fascist federal government, and its supporters in the school board. Building on the walkouts from last year, students self organized walkouts from at least six schools in Nevada County, convening in downtown Grass Valley. Despite attempts by liberal elements to co-opt the movement, the students stood fast in their revolutionary intent."