Minneapolis showed how to fight ICE and win [View all]

Minneapolis showed how to fight ICE and win
Organizers from around the country are being trained by people in Minneapolis

By Russell Payne
Staff Reporter
Published February 13, 2026 6:30AM (EST)


(Salon) Minnesotans, after weeks of dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have developed strategies for dealing with the agency’s occupation of the city and now, Americans from across the country are attending training from Minnesota-based organizations to prepare for when ICE comes to their city.

On Wednesday evening, the Twin Cities chapter of Indivisible, a nationwide grassroots progressive advocacy organization, hosted a training on how to be an effective constitutional observer of ICE operations. In Minnesota alone, some 23,000 people have received the training, according to the organization.

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The training on Wednesday specifically focused on observing and documenting ICE, and covered the role of the observer in immigration enforcement contexts. It addressed issues like how to tell a judicial warrant from an administrative warrant, how to inform people of their rights when ICE is attempting to detain someone, and how to stay safe when ICE officers become aggressive and violent.

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In conversation with Salon, organizers have said that the feeling on the ground is that it’s not one single tactic that is effective at combating ICE, but the combination of many tactics, which creates an environment in which officers are constantly interacting with protesters and where ICE activity is constantly being met with a response. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/13/minneapolis-showed-how-to-fight-ice-and-win/