Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warns of federal immigration agents brutalizing and abducting people in his city, calling it a "terrifying line" crossed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42561306

Jan. 31, 2026

According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, concern over ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.

CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for deportation.

  • Smaile
    151·
    4 个月前

    What were y’all expecting.

    • leadore@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 个月前

      Exactly this, and the rest that’s coming, and all the horrors that will be discovered to have happened when/if this ever ends.

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
        6·
        4 个月前

        I’m expecting full holocaust. I so want to be wrong but things keep getting closer and closer to it. I’m scared the fascists will come to Canada and come for me

        • leadore@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 个月前

          They’ve got a pretty long to-do list for here before they start looking your way. Keep an eye out for your own home-grown ones though.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
            2·
            4 个月前

            It’s important to remember that this isn’t isolated to America. Russia is turning up the far-right heat EVERYWHERE, and using America as the distraction, so you’ll let it happen in your country: “At least it isn’t as bad as what’s happening in America.”

            Yet.