*** “Judge not, that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you shall be judged, and the measure you give shall be the measure you receive.” [ Matthew 7: 1-2 ]
This post is the 8th in a series to describe toYOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Away from the MURDER videos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on people, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end when ICE thugs and Trump DICTATORSHIP cease DELIBERATELY causing chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen inYOUR state, if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Following is a commentary on what ICE is doing in RURAL Minnesota: “Rural Minnesotans, like ICE agents are also finding secrecy necessary” [ Karen Tolkkinen; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/18/26 ]. Excerpts below:
6] “People are terrified out here,” she said. “It’s like living in a novel back in the 1930s, the way ICE is. At the time the Nazis came to power and how they would take people from homes, that’s how I feel.”
10] “ICE is operating with a complete lack of transparency and accountability, both ingredients for abuse of power.”
9] “The problem is that ICE is cherry picking the data it releases I asked the agency for information about the guy picked up in Perham. ICE didn’t provide it. I asked about a guy detained in Detroit Lakes. Silence. Reports are that the agency has detained tribal members. Crickets.”
*** “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” [ Machiavelli ]
1] “If you have a hankering for Mexican food in greater Minnesota nowadays, good luck….The presence of secretive and sometimes aggressive ICE agents has driven owners and staff of Mexican and Chinese restaurants underground in many places.”
2] “On the windows of Casa Jalisco in Alexandria, near an apologetic sign scrawled on notebook paper, community members have stuck a flurry of pastrel notes bearing messages objecting to ICE.”
3]. “Restaurant closings are among the most visible signs that immigration agents are working in rural Minnesota.”
4] “Just as ICE agents are operating under a cloak of secrecy, people in greater Minnesota, too, are finding secrecy necessary. They are unwilling for their names to be published for fear of what ICE could do to them or to their loved ones.” [ Rural Minnesota is OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE. ]
*** “The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense…He cannot be convinced, but only converted.” [ Eric Hoffer: “The True Believer” ]
5] “One Detroit Lakes woman asked that I do not use her name because she doesn’t want to lead agents to refugees she has been helping who are here legally but too afraid to leave their homes. She said she wishes people around the state knew what was happening in west-central Minnesota.”
7] “It doesn’t surprise me that in rural Minnesota, people are trying to help….Some protests here have drawn crowds that span multiple city blocks.”
8] “What does surprise me is that in our state’s deep red farm country, there’s not ore opposition to the influx of federal agents. I lived in uber-conservative Idaho just three years after the deadly Ruby Ridge shootout and two years after the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas. I remember well the anguish and resentment directed at the federal government..”
11]. “Maybe conservative Americans are once again ready for the heavy hand of government if it accomplishes their goals.”
12] “a recently posted video from Alexandria shows a visibly shaken, brown-skinned man outside El Loro Mexican restaurant. he was clutching his passport after an interrogation by masked men…They were on a fishing expedition, singling out people with brown skin who didn’t deserve to be hassled by masked men any more than any white Minnesotan. At least someone filmed it. Bravo to them.”
***. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
[ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]
With Justice For All 