Trump's ICE agents are all over Minneapolis - but this is a community ready to resist

Trump's ICE agents are all over Minneapolis - but this is a community ready to resist The US president has sent 3,000 ICE agents to the city as part of his migrant crackdown. Many locals want them out. Image:A woman takes part in a protest outside Whipple Federal Building on Thursday. Pic: Reuters Friday 16 January 2026 09:17, UK It's 8.25am and a usually quiet neighbourhood in Minneapolis is waking up to a cacophony of car horns and whistles. Word has spread that ICE immigration officers are on the move in this part of the city and a community of activists has sprung into action. They make as much noise as they can to alert local people, who might be targets, to the presence of federal law enforcement. President Donald Trump has sent 3,000 ICE agents to the Minneapolis area . as part of his migrant crackdown They dwarf the local police force by five to one. Their presence is highly controversial and the majority of people in the city don't want them here. From the pavement, a man screams "cowards!" as an ICE vehicle drives by. Others swear at them and hold placards reading "Ice Out!" 👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈 A network of volunteers communicate on a secure messaging device, modelled on a police dispatch call. One of the volunteers might see a vehicle they believe is being used by ICE. They read out the number plate and the dispatcher replies "confirmed ICE," or "negative ICE." I'm with Seeker, a mother of two who owns a hair dressing salon. Since ICE has arrived in Minneapolis she has patrolled the streets, for hours every day. " They're snatching people from bus stops, and they are brazenly going to schools and churches. "Daycares and hospitals are also being hit right now," she says. "All these places traditionally would be sanctuary areas and now they're able to go in and take people." I ask Seeker about the suggestion that she is impeding the officers as they go about the job they have been tasked with. "There's nothing legitimate about what they're doing," she says. "They don't have a jurisdiction to pull random people off of the streets. They have the ability to serve warrants and act in that capacity. "But as upstanders and bystanders, we have a First Amendment protected right to film them and document them. That is going to be really valuable for those people that are being taken right now." Legal challenges are mounting for the Trump administration over alleged racial profiling over their immigration crackdown. Some people say they are being stopped in the street because of the colour of their skin and asked to prove they are American citizens. My team and I were driving in central Minneapolis this week when we saw a group of people at a bus stop. Two ICE vehicles in front of us suddenly pulled over. Around a dozen officers jumped out and began pursuing a woman down...

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