Garrison Gibson, a Liberian man, was arrested after agents used a battering ram to bust into his home last weekend. A federal judge ordered ICE to release Gibson on Thursday, which it did, only to arrest him again on Friday. He was then released again.
"I'm just scared to go outside. I'm scared of them," said Daisy Martinez, whose husband Tomas Martinez Gregorio was arrested on New Year's Eve in the suburb of Brooklyn Park. The couple had been pulled over by agents while driving their six-year-old son to the hospital for a tonsillectomy. While her son was in the backseat, multiple agents pinned her to the car and took Tomas. "It's almost as if he was kidnapped," she said.
Now Martinez said she's unsure every day what to tell her son – who has started to see a therapist to help him cope in the aftermath of what he's witnessed. "He does tell me that he doesn't want to go to school," Martinez said. "He doesn't want me to be taken away too."
How often does this have to occur before you can say democracy and civil rights are collapsing? How many armed masked men roaming the streets disappearing brown people does it take?
At lunchtime, one of the only restaurants open on East Lake was an American diner. At least four Mexican restaurants in that block had been shut, indefinitely.
Approximately 80% of immigrant-run businesses in Minneapolis and St Paul had been closed this week amid the ICE crackdown, and sales at these businesses had plummeted since late December.
One has to wonder how hotels and restaurants in MPLS can continue to function. Maids, Dishwashers, Janitors etc in the hospitality biz are just about all immigrants. What's the effect on the GDP & tax revenue?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/minneapolis-twin-cities-ice-dispatch
'Make no mistake, this is an occupation': ICE's deadly presence casts long shadow over Minneapolis
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