Carl Elliott

Charges dropped against three Minnesotans accused of assaulting federal agents The defendants were initially accused of serious crimes. But when asked for evidence, the government dropped their cases.

Charges dropped against three Minnesotans accused of assaulting federal agents

www.startribune.com/charges-drop...

Because of ICE, I've Been in Hiding for Months. It Has Transformed Me. - Racket Days of anxiety, of frustration, and of feeling that everything is on hold while the world keeps moving forward outside.

Read this.

Because of ICE, I’ve Been in Hiding for Months. It Has Transformed Me. - racketmn.com/because-of-i...

After chancellor was abruptly let go, new leader takes the helm at University of Minnesota Morris Michael Rodriguez, previously a dean at the U’s Twin Cities campus, aims to build on a recent reversal of declining enrollment.

"Despite being asked about eight times for her rationale for the change, faculty, staff and students didn’t get an answer."

www.startribune.com/after-chance...

Trump administration formally denies Minnesota access to Alex Pretti evidence Drew Evans, head of the state’s investigative agency, said the FBI once again refused access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.

Of course

www.startribune.com/trump-admini...

What To Watch For When ICE Buys Local Warehouses DHS is buying huge warehouses raising concerns about economic impacts on towns, adequate water and infrastructure, and outbreaks of measles, other infectious diseases.

New: ICE detention warehouses, like this planned for #Hagerstown, bring concerns about infections, adequate water, and economic impact (in addition to the obvious human rights concerns).
Here's some of what to watch for:
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Opinion | At the University of Minnesota, neutrality has become censorship "In theory, neutrality policies protect free debate by allowing the community to disagree on controversial matters. But in practice, these policies are easily weaponized to achieve the opposite — cens...

To 99% of ICE-occupied Minneapolis, the line between good and evil over the past two months has been absolutely clear. Yet the #UMN administration has consistently picked the wrong side.
www.startribune.com/politics-uni...

I feel a bit emotionally out of step with most here, but I'm kinda in the mood of "Dance in the streets, but bring your whistles"

Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...

Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents?
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Corporate Communications in ‘Uncertain, Stressful, and Volatile Times’: How MN Employers Failed to Address the ICE Occupation - Racket We asked Minnesotans how their bosses responded to our statewide crisis. And boy did they tell us.

Pay no attention to the masked paramilitary agents lurking outside the office. We're on a deadline here, people!

racketmn.com/corporate-co...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

We have an anti-ICE protest concert. Four days later, ICE announces it is leaving Minnesota. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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From the Heart of ICE-occupied Minneapolis YouTube video by The Gated Community

Here's a feel-good story from occupied Minneapolis. No tear gas, no abductions, just a community coming together. Plus, some excellent protest music.

#StandWithMinneapolis #ICEProtest #Resistance #ProtestSong

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2g3...

Twin Cities health care workers describe 'fear,' 'intimidation' due to ICE in hospitals Health care workers are experiencing fear and anxiety about going to work with ICE agents present in hospitals and clinics.

ICE officers are now in Minneapolis hospitals. Staff members are terrified.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

How one Minneapolis man is helping neighbors surveil ICE back • Minnesota Reformer When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras, pointed towards public areas, that they could use to ...

How one Minneapolis man is helping neighbors surveil ICE back minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/h...

Immigration attorneys call out dirty conditions, ‘disarray and chaos’ at Whipple detention facility Attorneys for the Advocates for Human Rights visited the Whipple Federal Building on Monday following a judge’s ruling.

Hundreds of immigrants in Minneapolis are housed in "piles of trash, no bedding with people sleeping on the floor, detainees shackled by the ankle and holding rooms with as many as a dozen or more people." #ImmigrationJustice #ICEoutforGood

www.startribune.com/immigration-...

University of Minnesota med school changes class after accusations of UnitedHealth ‘propaganda’ The school is changing an elective course while still working with the Eden Prairie-based health care giant after students raised concerns.

A medical school class taught by -- UnitedHealth? What could possibly be wrong with that?

www.startribune.com/university-o...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

“To disallow a faculty member from expressing their solidarity with the murdered man at his own memorial service is not ‘neutrality,’ it is complicity.”

University police escort music professor out of Alex Pretti vigil for wearing ICE OUT sign, ‘You know we aren’t taking sides here.’ What does one wear to the memorial of a killing? Music professor Stephanie Arado, asked by University of Minnesota administrators to perform at a streamed community event for alum Alex...

A violinist was invited to perform at a memorial for Alex Pretti. When she arrived wearing a black tunic saying "The evil must end," University of Minnesota administrators had her ejected from the building by armed guards.

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Uptown Minneapolis

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

These are letters from children detained in an ICE facility in Texas.

Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days.

Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Minnesotans’ moonshot to cover rent for their immigrant neighbors - MinnPost The need for emergency rental assistance is bigger than a GoFundMe, but that’s not stopping residents from trying.

Inside Minnesotans’ moonshot to cover rent for their immigrant neighbors www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage

"Loathing is a powerful economic and geopolitical force."

Indeed.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Why Pam Bondi broke bad. (Spoiler alert: nobody knows.)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Benefit concert for immigrant legal support tomorrow, 4-6. Link to stream and link to donate in QR codes

In person sold out, but can stream:
Live from the heart of ICE-occupied Minneapolis, alt-country band The Gated Community presents a free streaming concert of protest songs and original material on Saturday, February 7 from 4-6 pm CST. All donations will go to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Join us for a benefit concert of protest songs livestreamed today at 4 pm CST by The Gated Community!

4 students chain themselves to Morrill Hall demanding a sanctuary campus Shortly after 1 p.m. this afternoon, four demonstrators chained themselves to the outside of Morrill Hall, demanding University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham declare the University as a sa...

4 students at #UMN chain themselves to Morrill Hall demanding a sanctuary campus. (Most of us would be satisfied if admin would just tell us when ICE was on campus.)

mndaily.com/top-story/4-...

Hope to Hell, by The Gated Community 1 track album

New Minneapolis protest song by The Gated Community! Proceeds to Minnesota Immigrant Rights Committee.

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