'Tinted windows and out-of-state plates': How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods (Twin Cities) [View all]

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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/05/twin-cities-ice-watchers-keep-tabs-for-agents-in-their-neighborhoods

‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods, MPR, 12/5/25

Photo: An East African man falls to the ground as Homeland Security Investigations officers detain him outside a home in south Minneapolis on Thursday. The federal agents eventually left without making any arrests

Wednesday was Lucia Webb’s second day doing ICE watch in Minneapolis. It was just two days after the federal government launched its expanded immigration enforcement actions in the Twin Cities.

In her car, she followed federal immigration agents from south Minneapolis to a park-and-ride lot by the Minneapolis VA Medical Center’s light rail stop. That’s when her car was boxed in by four ICE vehicles and surrounded by mostly masked federal agents.

One agent told her she can’t be “chasing” them around the city. She replied that she wasn’t chasing. The agent said she was breaking the law by following them, and that he would arrest her if she didn’t stop “impeding.” Minnesota law requires vehicles to travel 500 feet behind emergency vehicles when they’re responding to an emergency, although Webb said the ICE vehicles hadn’t activated emergency lights.

The agent told her, “You can not do this.”

Webb insisted, “Yes, I can. Yes, I can.”

The 31-year-old south Minneapolis resident who works for a nonprofit, is just one of hundreds, and likely thousands, of Twin Cities residents volunteering to make ICE’s job in Minnesota as difficult as possible.

much more at link. And yes, they use whistles too. And chat apps.