***. “When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without tht proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” [ David Hume ]
A] “Trump’s ICE push seeks to remake state’s population” [Evan Ramstad; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/18/26].
This post presents excerpts from analysis of. NUMBERS – NOT rhetoric; NOT fantasies; NOT xenophobic racism; NOT campaign propaganda; NOT lies. THE number one NUMERIC FACT: America, following other endangered advanced countries, will shrink without immigration. But first, YOU will begin to feel slowing growth, labor shortages, maybe lose YOUR job. The Trump DICTATORSHIP is not only crazy, they are INCOMPETENT. And, YOU will pay the price.
7] “..the nation’s population will begin to shrink in 2030 without immigration..”
5] “>>the administration’s entire approach on immigration – including provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that slowed legal immigration – will end up hurting economic growth for the country and Minnesota in coming years.
“And unfortunately for Trump, he is trying to change the source of population growth at the last possible moment.”
10] “..ICE agents came to Minnesota because of this idea that America must grow through larger families instead of immigration. Renee Good, a mother of three, paid for that idea with her life.”
***. “Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.”
[ George Eliot ]
1] “Here’s the cold economic way to look at the deployment of ICE officers in Minnesota this month. President Donald Trump sent thousands of them to one of the nation’s slowest-growing states, and one of the farthest from the southern border, in search of undocumented immigrants he thinks are harming the American economy.”
2]. “He sent the masked federal agents to a state that has relied on international immigrants for the majority of its population growth of 131,000 this decade, the slowest-growing period in its history.”
3]. “Seeing [Good’s] death and hundreds of people being snatched up until they can prove citizenship, the analytical part of my brain moves beyond horror and terror to a rather banal question: Does Donald Trump want Minnesota to shrink?”
4]. “What is clear is Trump and his acolytes want Minnesota and the United States to rely far less on immigrants for population and economic growth. They will sacrifice population growth and the economic growth that comes with it – if too much of it comes from immigrants.”
*** “Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution.” [Samuel Fletcher]
6] “On the day ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Congressional Budget Office updated its 30-year population forecast for the U.S., saying annual growth would slow from 0.3% over the next decade to an average of 0.1% from 2037 to 2056….net immigration…will soon become even more important to population growth because the annual number of deaths in the U.S. will begin to exceed the annual number of births in 2030.”
[NUMBERS – not rhetoric, fantasies, campaign propaganda, xenophobic racism, lies ]
8] “The day after the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank with enormous sway in the Trump administration, published a report decrying the decline of marriage and the natural family and two-parent households in the U.S. for its role in population decline.”
9] “The report takes a sweeping approach to “restoring the American Dream…Heritage wants government agencies to direct grants to cities and towns with high marriage rates and give bigger tax credits to families with three or more children. Other slow-growing countries have tried similar ideas to increase fertility rates among their citizens. No one has succeeded yet.”
***. “Dictatorships usually present a formidable exterior. They seem, on the outside, to be hard, glittering, and irresistible. Within, they are full of rottenness.” { John Foster Dulles ]
{NOTE: We have said, many times, our criticism of the Trump DICTATORSHIP, or ANY American government, is based on success or failure of that government meeting the tests of the Founders in the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People,” formed a government to achieve. “Union…Justice…Tranquility…the common defence, promote the general Welfare..”
YOU tell us – in SPECIFIC DETAIL – which, if any Trump DICTATORSHIP policies and laws have done ANY of this???????? Not just for a moment, but for years, decades……………..
How does sending masked ICE thugs through peaceful neighborhoods, scooping up ANYBODY who looks like, or sounds like. “a suspicious person;” 70-90%. having NO criminal record, no “crime” other than wanting to work. – will ‘…promote the general Welfare..” of America??????????
WHY – are Americans, like many/most people in other advanced nations. – having fewer children??????? WHY. – did millions of American couples decide, on. their own, to have 0, 1, 2 children??????????
WHAT has happened to and in, America since 1980??????????
***. “Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.” [ John Dryden ]
Tag: news
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXVI. – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, XII
*** “Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for ptotection. That’s why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people.” [ Ryan North ]
BULLETIN. FROM. THE. MINNESOTA. WAR. ZONE: ICE thug trauma is now so prevalent that the following article recently appeared: “How to have hard conversations with kids about ICE operations” [ Rachel Hutton; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/4/26 ]
1] “Children are like wet cement ,” observed child psychologist Haim Ginott. “Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” Every adult who knows a child can attest to this, and children and young people across Minnesota are now witnessing a militarized siege that will make a lifelong impression.” [ Anil Hurkadli: “How the Legislature could support our children traumatized by ICE”; Minnesota Star Tribune;; 1/28/26 ]
2] “Research from Harvard University’s Kennedy School confirm that fatal law enforcement shootings [like Good’s and Pretti’s ] have a proven negative academic impact on children. Exposure to this violence leads to decreased GPAs and daily attendance, lower high school graduation and college enrollment rates, and an increased likelihood of emotional disturbance…….Florida and California….Minnesota.” [ Hurkadli ]
3]. “For Minnesota students, the consequences are profound. Fear and instability disrupt well-being, erode trust in public institutions, and undermine educational access and achievement. These outcomes are fundamentally incompatible with Minnesota’s constitutional promise – and with our responsibility to safeguard the next generation.” {Carlos Mariani Rosa: “Federal enforcement actions are sowing chaos in schools – and must stop now”; Minnesota star Tribune; 1/18/26}
4] “children are once again paying the price. In recent weeks, fear generated by immigration enforcement and other federal actions in Minneapolis and surrounding communities has made something as ordinary as raveling to and from school feel dangerous…Students are distracted and traumatized.” [Duchess Harris: “Minnesota should deploy the National Guard so children can safely attend school”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/15/26]
***. “Repeated childhood trauma causes a child to live in a constant state of hypervigilance, always alert to impending perceived danger.” [ Unknown ]
5]. “Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.” [Susan Du: “Fearful parents making plans for children’s care”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/26/26]
6] “The Trump administration has repeatedly said that it does not target day cares, children or schools, but the Minnesota Star Tribune has confirmed several instances of ICE activity near those facilities, involving educators or witnessed by school-age children.” [Susan Du: “Day cares worry ICE is targeting their workers”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/17/26].
[NOTE: Another BIG. LIE by the Trump DICTATORSHIP]
7]. “a 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.” [Susan Du, Mara Klecker: “Grocery trip ends in girl, father being sent to Texas”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/24/26]
NOTE: the poster people for ICE thugs in Minnesota: a 2-year old girl, a 5-year old boy; and two. MURDER VICTIMS: Renee Good and Alex Pretti
*** “Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.” [ Jack London ]
8] “Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement: ‘ICE is not conducting enforcement operations at, or ‘raiding,’ schools.”…..The lawsuit repeats what school officials have said for weeks…Attendance is down because students fear coming to school. Agents are staging on school property and conducting operations near schools and bus stops, which interferes with student learning and the regular functions of a school district and school staff.” [Mara Klecker: “Schools, union sue to keep ICE off grounds”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/5/26]
9] “Then last week, Fridley Superintendent Brenda Lewis said she was followed by ICE on her way to school. Several of the district’s school board members have had ICE vehicles park outside their homes, something Lewis said is “retaliation” for the suburban district speaking out against ICE.” [ Klecker; “Schools, union…}
[NOTE: IF ICE is here to arrest fraudsters, the “worst of the worst,” what are they doing , LEGALLY, ETHICALLY, following school board members and a school superintendent ???????????????????? ]
10] NUMEROUS. articles have been published during the. ICE. thug reign of terror in Minnesota about how local students’ lives are being disrupted; schools closed for safety reasons; school attendance dropping off; athletic teams having games cancelled. Students have organized walk-outs to protest in St. Paul and suburbs. One Minneapolis educator was ‘detained,’ taken to the Whipple concentration camp, released………………….
*** “The initial trauma of a young child may go underground, but it will return to haunt us.” [ James Garbarino ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXV. – The REALLY. BIG. ICE Lie. About Their “Arrests” !!!!!!!!!!
*** “Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like toads; you cannot tell one but it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.” { Washington Allston ]
A] “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said this week that Immigration Enforcement has arrested “over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis, since President Trump took office a year ago, including 3,000 in the past six weeks.” Those numbers were then repeated by Greg Bovino and Marcos Charles. [Deena Winter: “Little Proof to back up ICE claim of 10K arrests”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/24/26]
[Put Up or Shut Up!!! – show us the 10,000 mug shots & court records !!!!!!!!!!!]
2] “But if ICE has arrested 10,000 people in the last year, a majority of the arrests would have had to occur before Dec. 1, when it began sending officers into the state. The 10,000 figure is a substantial increase from what officials have said previously. [ Winter ]
3]. “It’s not clear when and where the additional 7,000 arrests occurred.” [ Winter ]
4]. “Their latest report found 1,677 arrests in Minnesota from when Trump took office through Oct. 15.” [ Winter ]
5] “If their numbers are accurate, the only way ICE could have arrested 10,000 people since Trump took office is if they arrested over 5,300 people in the six-week period before Operation Metro Surge began. That’s 2,000 more than they say they arrested during the surge over the past six weeks.” [ Winter ]
***. “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.” [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
B] “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released the names of only about 240 immigrants it arrested as of Jan. 19….About 80% of the 240 people on the “worst of the worst” list have felony convictions…. but nearly everyone of the list has gone through the court system, served time for their crimes and was not actively wanted by police..” [Christopher Magan, Jeff Hargarten: “Gaps in ICE ‘worst’ case”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26]
2] “In many instances, ICE didn’t detain these individuals in the military-style raids…Public records show they were picked up after being released from jail or prison and put on parole. More than a quarter also have no criminal connection to Minnesota except for being held in one of the state’s four federal prions.” [Magan, Hargarten]
3]. “ICE has declined repeated requests to provide names of people detained in Minnesota.” [Magan, Hargarten]
PUT UP or SHUT UP !!!!!! – PROVE ICE arrested 3,000 “worst of the worst”. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C] “Prisons chief accuses Homeland Security of ‘misinformation’….Schnell believes DHS has repeatedly skewed numbers in reports.” {Deena Winter; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/24/26]
1]. Paul Schnell said DHS spread “”misinformation” by falsely saying the state releases “criminal illegal aliens” to the public rather than turning them over to immigration officials.” [Winter]
2] “At a news conference Jan. 22, Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell played videos of inmates being handed over to federal agents to refute the DHS’ accusation.” [ Winter ]
3] “This is no longer a simple misunderstanding,” he said. “at best, DHS fundamentally misunderstands Minnesota’s correctional system. At a minimum, this reflects systematic data management inadequacies or incompetence as it relates to DHS tracking of detainers in custody. At worst. it is pure propaganda, numbers released without evidence to stoke fear rather than inform the public.” [Winter]
4]. “A state survey of jails found 94 noncitizens in jail with ICE detainers, and 207 in prison, for a total of about 300 people. That’s about 1,000 fewer than Homeland Security’s claim, which correction officials called “categorically false, unsupported by facts, and deeply irresponsible.” [Winter]
5] “Schnell said his department has not found a single case where the state failed to honor an ICE detainer.” [Winter]
6]. “Schnell accused Homeland Security of falsely claiming to have arrested two undocumented immigrants off the streets as part of Operation Metro Surge when, in reality, they were released to ICE by the prison system. He showed reporters a video of the transfer as proof.” [Winter]
7] “This isn’t the first the DHS has claimed to have picked up violent, undocumented criminals off the streets as part of Operation Metro Surge, even though they were released by the prison system to ICE, Schnell said.” [Winter]
8]. “Schnell said some on the DHS’ lists were released to ICE years ago – as far back as the 1990s. DOC officials say the “worst of the worst” list includes many people who were never in Minnesota prisons and often had no criminal record in Minnesota.” [Winter]
9] “Schnell said some of the people on the DHS “worst of the worst” list are people the corrections department had turned over to ICE, and ICE released them back into the community…”
[NOTE: go back over the 9 corrections above – EACH. ONE. REFUTING. AN. ICE. LIE!!!!!!!!!!]
*** “The more lies are told, the more important it becomes for the liars to justify themselves by deep moral commitments to high-sounding objectives that mask the pursuit of money or power.” [Bertram Gross: “Friendly Fascism The New Face pf Power in America”]
And then, there’s Maine!!!!! YOU can read about this Trump DICTATORSHIP farce in Associated Press stories of Jan. 23rd and Jan. 25th – “Court records conflict with claims made by ICE” and the Governor demands ICE data. !!!!!
*** “Great liars are also great magicians.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXIV. – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, XI
*** “Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power.” [ William Pinckney; U.S. Attorney General ]
This post is the 11th in a series describing to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Outside 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 to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
This series is a WARNING. – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Presented below are just SOME of the stories discovered 2/1 and 2/2/26. Excerpts folow:
1] “Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposely ran head first into a brick wall,”….But staff members..determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year old’s brain….”It was laughable….ICE insisted on using handcuffs to shackle his ankles to the bed….He appears to have no criminal record….He has significant memory loss and a long recovery ahead. He won’t be able to work..” [ Jack Brock. Jim Mustian, Michael Biesecker: “Detainee’s injuries met with skepticism”; Associated Press; 2/2/26 ]
2] “..my 80-year old Asian-American parents have started to carry their passports each time they leave their suburban townhouse….Federal agents have been recorded on video, acknowledging that they’re homing in on individuals who speak with foreign accents…” Laura Yuen: “In a game of ‘cat and mouse,’ now we carry papers”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/1/26]
3] “In fact, for six CVT clients – all here legally, seeking asylum, with work permits – their Orwellian ordeals recurred after they were swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge, which was falsely predicated on arresting the state’s “worst of the worst.”…….”One of the keys to the healing is feeling safe,”…Now they’re terrified…..”The majority of our clients are essentially under house arrest….Making them fearful of being sent back to their torturers isn’t only immoral, it’s illegal under the international principle of non-refoulement….”this is setting up a climate of fear, and the climate of fear is what is being desired….”We have utterly lost whatever moral standing we might have had,’..” [ John Rash: “They fled terror in their home countries. then ICE detained them”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/2/26 ]
4]. “When he shared that his asylum case was pending, the agents arrested him, with handcuffs on his arms and legs….”What’s happening now is the government is just unplugging pending asylum cases by grabbing people, haphazardly, without thinking whether it makes sense…..When Duglof was detained, he tried to explain his condition to the agents..but few seemed to care….did not receive the care needed for his condition…..Duklef said he believes the Trump administration is targeting immigrants with pending asylum cases because it’s easier to find them…” [ Talia McWright: “Scared To Go Out”; St. Paul pioneer Press; 2/2/26 ]
5] “[F]or some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.” These words were written by a district judge in Texas who ordered the release from detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father….They pertain to more than this particular case; they aptly describe the force that motivates the Trump administration and the moral vacuum at its core.” [ R.D.: “It’s not just this case”; letter to the editor; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/2/26 ]
6] “The ramped-up presence of federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities – and the fear it’s created – has for nearly a month now, disrupted normal school day routines for thousands of students across Minnesota…..”I’ve been teaching in the Columbia Heights Public Schools for 33 years…and I’ve never experienced any disruption or danger to students like the current ICE occupation of Minnesota.”…..”Students are struggling,’ said one social worker. “and this community stress is affecting them in ways they maybe don’t recognize.” [ Mara Klecker, Anthony Lonetree” “ICE surge thrusts schools into the front line”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/2/26 ]
*** “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one hat inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals.” [ Mark Twain ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXI – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe.”
***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.”
[ Plato ]
This post is the 10th in a series describing to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people – like YOU. Outside Renee Good and Alex Prettti. MURDER. videos. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on individuals, 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 in YOUR state, if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Below is a BEGINNING list of countless indignities inflicted on Minnesota – in the name of “law and order” – by ICE thugs: “For those who doubt it, let me explain why observing ICE is not a crime” [ Ronn Seim; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/28/26 ]. Some excerpts:
1] “Reasonable people can and should debate what role, if any, ICE should be playing in Minnesota. But given the role ICE is playing, reasonable people can easily understand and defend the presence of peaceful observers and protestors. The stated, specific [‘official”] purpose of the ICE operation in Minnesota seems to be a moving target.”
*** “Truth is the most precious thing. That is why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
2]. “What we have witnessed includes:
1] “Masked agents outfitted in full combat gear, typically without visible badge number or name tags, roaming our streets and neighborhoods…
2] “Conducting random racial profiling of adults and minors, often as they simply go about their daily routines…
3] “Refusing to identify themselves or give legal reasons for stops…
4]. “entering homes and private spaces without judicial warrants – in some cases, breaking into residences on the basis of obsolete addresses…
5] “Typically lacking transparency regarding identities, location or status of detainees…
6]. “Exaggerating or lying about criminal histories for either targets or detainees…
7]. “Similarly, taking credit for capturing/arresting criminals who were actually turned over to federal agents by Minnesota law enforcement – sometimes months or years earlier. – while simultaneously accusing local law enforcement of not cooperating…
8]. “Physically and verbally assaulting people they view as uncooperative…
9]. “Declaring that the use of chemical irritants is a de-escalation tactic [Greg Bovino ]…
10 “Hauling innocent citizens in their underwear out of their homes in front of children…
11]. “Detaining American citizens for hours, then releasing them without charges or even winter clothing, often miles from their homes or from where they were picked up…
12]. “And snatching parents, often without warrants, outside schools or at bus stops in front of their traumatized children.”
***. “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. but we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear.” [ Reichsfuhrer SS, Heinrich Himmler ]
3] “..consider what we have seen and heard in the aftermath of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Immediately following each shooting – and before local officials had offered any opinions about the incidents….federal voices have slandered the victims, calling them domestic terrorist acting with evil intent, and offered descriptions of the circumstances that contrasted radically with video evidence that captured the incidents from a wide variety of angles.”
***. “Power is tearing human minds in pieces and putting them together again in shapes of your own choosing.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]
4] “ultimately, after a day or two, perhaps realizing no sane person can buy these outrageous and publicly available accusations, they act as though they never made them [multiple times] and pivot to some version of blaming local leaders [Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey]. or law enforcement for inciting or letting the situation get out of hand, of blaming the victim for being someplace they shouldn’t have been as though that justifies shooting them. or sort of admitting that mistakes can happen and it’s tragic, but what can you do about it? Without any real acceptance of blame or apology.”
*** “There is no possibility I have made a mistake.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
5]. “The pattern is one of both disingenuity and duplicity – claiming every immigration enforcement action is lawful, whose objectives are public safety and punishment of criminals, and decrying lack of cooperation by local law enforcement; all while neither maintaining nor sharing databases of activity and detention with local law enforcement, while themselves violating laws as well as norms of human decency in pursuit of political retribution.”
*** “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell: “1984”]
6] “To Dokoupil’s credit, he pressed the question, asking if Homan – in his 20-plus years of experience. – could remember a situation where he concluded, once an investigation was complete, that an officer had used excessive force. Homan said never. Dokoupil responded by saying he imagined many viewers – and even himself. – had to be a bit incredulous with Homan’s answer. Homan repeated, never.” [NOTE: do YOU suppose – had there been no witnesses, no videos – that maybe, the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s version might be: ‘shot while trying to escape.”???}
*** “The Party told you to reject the evidence in your eyes and ears…it was their final, most essential command.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]
Note: NOW, there can be NO doubt – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is at war with the American people. For over a year, YOU have seen and heard more than enough evidence of this FACT. This site alone has made 121 posts illustrating to YOU a variety of EYEWITNESS reports, reports by respected legal and law enforcement professionals, economists, judges, Constitutional experts, reports from foreign leaders…….etc, etc….. YOU are living in the midst of a COUP, planed for decades, now carried out by “Project 2025” reactionaries. The Trump DICTATORSHIP, abetted by reactionary state leaders. – is. NOW. – planning on subverting the November 3, 2026 elections to ensure the Trump DICTATORSHIP maintains control of “our” federal government.”
*** “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” [ Dr. martin Luther King, Jr.; 1963 ]
Among the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s very first actins was firing ANYBODY who could hold them accountable – like inspectors general. Throughout this recent year, the Trump DICTATORSHIP has attacked law firms, universities, businesses to FORCE them to obey or else. YOU are now witnessing, live, the Trump DICTATORSHIP effort to make the people of Minnesota, the state, the cities. – OBEY. “Trump’s vision”. – or – ‘my way or the highway.”
*** “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany,’ it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’..” [ Halford Luccock ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXX. – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, IX
*** “Here in America we are descended in blood and spirit from revolutionaries and rebels – men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” [ Dwight D. Eisenhower; WW II General; Republican; 34th U.S. President ]
This post is the 9th in a series to describe to YOU 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 to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state, if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Following are excerpts from “letters to the editor” from ordinary Minnesotans. [“Letters to the editor”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 1/18/26]:
A] “I don’t understand why we tolerate this”
1] “I am writing not to argue policy, but to ask a human and moral question that I cannot stop asking: How are we tolerating this?….watching parents taken from their homes, children left in shock and confusion, neighbors disappearing overnight. – and not be disturbed enough to demand something better?”
2] “I am trying, sincerely to understand how people of good will – people who care about family, order and the rule of law – can witness scenes of armed agents taking someone away in front of their children, or read about a woman killed in the course of enforcement, and do not feel compelled to say: This is not how a humane society should function.”
3] “do the supporters of our current system know anyone outside their own social or economic circles who is being affected? Do they know what it looks like when a child comes home from school and their parent is simply gone? Do they know what it does to a community when people are afriad not only of being taken, but even leaving their homes – afraid to go to work, to school, to the doctor, or to church – and when enforcement actions are disrupting staff and children in our schools?
4] “I find myself thinking about Anne Frank’s words describing how people simply “disappeared,”…I am troubled by how familiar the pattern feels: people removed, families silenced by fear, the rest of society slowly learnig not to look too closely..”
5]. “I understand immigration is complex…But the way we enforce the law also matters….A system that relies on fear, force and family separation as tools cannot be called orderly or just – only cruel.”
6] “What troubles me most is not disagreement. It is indifference. It is the sense that many have become so accustomed to this machinery that they no longer see the human cost, or no longer feel responsible because it is being done “legally,” “federally,” or “by someone else.” But moral responsibility does not disappear just because harm is bureaucratized.’
7] “..we can refuse to normalize what is happening. We can refuse to accept this is the best we can do. We can demand accountability, transparency, restraint and above all, humanity.”
8] “..I am deeply grateful to all who are standing up in protest – peacefully, courageously and publicly – to insist that our neighbors’ lives and families matter and that we can do better than this.”
9] “I am asking how anyone can watch families being torn apart, children traumatized, communities destabilized, and now people being killed – and not feel called to say: This must change. If we cannot feel that, then something more dangerous than any immigration crisis is happening to us.” [ J. W. S. ]
B]. “For decent and lawful enforcement, but not this”
1] “Last week a neighbor of my friend in St. Paul was picked up and detained by ICE. The spouse of a teacher at the school where I volunteer was also picked up and detained by ICE. Both were born in America and have no criminal history. They are NOT illegal immigrants and NOT the “worst of the worst’ of illegal immigrants purportedly being targeted by ICE agents at the direction of President Trump.”
2]. “I believe ICE is in Minnesota to terrorize and traumatize our citizens because President Trump hates Rep. Ilhan Omar and Gov. Tim Walz….Disagreeing with your political opponents is one thing, terrorizing their constituents is quite another.”
3] “..President Trump’s blatant prejudicial violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution to punish political enemies and law-abiding citizens is, very simply wrong.”
C] “The Risk”
1] “My family has realized that no one, especially innocent people, is immune from the ongoing negative interactions and complications caused by the ICE presence in Minneapolis. I want to present the fear, daily life routines needing to be changed and adjustments we are dealing with, realizing that many have it far worse.”
2] “We have been alerted to the risk that one of our family members faces based on a learning disability that makes it difficult for her to deal with complex issues requiring lengthy explanations. Several years ago my husband and I decided to complete our family with a fourth child, who would be a special needs child adopted from Korea.”
3] “Her limitations make it difficult for her to comprehend and address complex issues and reply in a perceived timely manner. If her bus or Lyft transportation is detained by ICE because of other passengers or because many of the drivers appear to be Muslim or because she looks Asian or for any reason and she would be questioned, she would be at great risk to be taken to a facility for “further interrogation” and because she would not have been able to explain that she is a U.S. citizen or answer rapid questioning.” [ J.G. ]
NOTE: These are NOT isolated, “one off” stories. Stories like these continue to become public. American CITIZENS picked up, ordered to present identification. [ including disabled U.S. veterans, out of uniform police officers, etc. ], detained for hours, dropped off somewhere with NO apology, perhaps their unlocked vehicle still running; property damaged, people standing and watching DELIBERATELY sprayed with chemicals, CITIZENS exercising Ist Amendment rights to photograph having phones knocked out of their hands, sprayed with chemicals, people following ICE thugs having vehicles surrounded – perhaps being put into an “accident,” perhaps dragged out of their vehicle, perhaps roughed up and threatened, etc., etc. etc…………..
this site has now posted 9 of these stories – more will likely follow – because ICE thugs continue to create these atrocities – to UNARMED American CITIZENS, on. a daily basis.
*** “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]
***. “Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” [ Mark Twain ]
The Trump Dictatorship – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXIX – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, VII
***. “There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
[ Robert South ]
This post is the 7th in a series to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Away from the MURDER videos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Effects often invisible – but – 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 in Minnesota can easily come to YOUR state, if “our’ 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED” to do it.
Below are some “letters to the editor,” published January 9, 2026 [Minnesota Star Tribune] under this heading: “Despairing our fractured reality.” Some excerpts:
1] “We are in the middle of some kind of Shakespearean tragedy. If you doubt this, just listen to..Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump’s version…..The three witches in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”…fog and filthy air…..In another Shakespearean tragedy, “Hamlet,”…words, words, words…….Thus January 6, 2021 becomes a “love fest,” the Minneapolis ICE killing is prompted by “an act of domestic terrorism”…….. [V.A.]
2] “an abrupt about-face by the FBI to exclude Minnesota bureau of Criminal Apprehension from a joint investigation…does not bode well for my trust..” [S.W.}
3] “To our brothers and sisters in blue: You have my deepest sympathy. You have been placed in the crosshairs of this crisis not of your making.” [M.J.C.]
4] “So thankful for Gov. Tim Walz, Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara. Thank you.” [l.K.]
5] “Who aren these guys…2,000 ICE “officers” descend on our state………… Who are these people? What training do they have……..how many are actually felons or criminals?” [J.C.]
6] “They said they were sending an additional 2,000 ICE agents to address “fraud’ in Minnesota. Did they send auditors? Did they send CPAs? No. They sent armed thugs……” [P.B.]
7] “On Jan.7, ICE agents swarmed an elementary school in south Minneapolis attended by my grandchildren…..As children watched. and they took parents and staff into custody – with no regard for the children’s welfare….this operation was about power and intimidation, sowing chaos….Is this really the America we wanted…. [D.F.]
*** “I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: is it good for America?”
[ WW II General; Republican; 34th U.S. President. Dwight D. Eisenhower ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXIII. – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, VI
“Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeminh shores, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
[ Emma Lazarus: Inscription on The Statue of Liberty ]
This post is the 6th in a series to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Away from the Renee Good and Alex Pretti MURDER videos, much other abuse is bveing done to ordinary people. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on people, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end when ICE thugs & Trump DICTATORSHIP cease to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state if “our” 13-year old president & Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
This is the story of one woman, a child refugee, now deported: “One Minnesota woman’s deportation story”. [ Ka Vang; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/11/26 ]. Excerpts below:
9] “The deportation system is like brain fog: paperwork no one explains, flights no one sees, lives erased quietly enough to avoid scrutiny. It assumes the public will stop paying attention once someone disappears..”
3] “I feel betrayed byAmerica,’ she told me. Though she never became a citizen, she was a lawful permanent resident with the right to work and reside in the U.S.”
6]. “She described a deportation process that was confusing and deeply dehumanizing. “I wasn’t sure of my rights because no one clearly explained them to me,’ she told me. She was shackled at her wrists and ankles in detention centers and while being transported. Her journey took her from the U.S. to Georgia, then to South Korea, and finally to Laos. Along the way she traveled with others being deported to India and other parts of Asia.”
***. “Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.” [ Platform plank of the National Union {Republican} Party, 1864 ]
1]. “She grew up here and lived most her life here. her family is here. And yet, last year, she was deported to Laos….a country she barely knows.”
2] “I am telling her story because Minnesotans deserve to understand what deportation actually does to a human life..”
4] “Asian Americans are often missing from immigration debates, squeezed between simplistic narratives of “good immigrants” and “criminals.” Yet, since 2002, more than 17,000 southeast Asians have received final orders of removal..”
5] “Many arrived as refugee children fleeing war and genocide. They built lives here, paid taxes here, raised families here. Decades later, they were marked for deportation over old convictions – often nonviolent offenses tied to poverty, trauma and youth.”
7] “When she landed in Laos, she was told she needed a local sponsor to leave the detention center…She had no one in Laos to help her.”
8] “She spent a month in a hotel, then moved closer to the area where her ancestors once lived – not because her family is there, but because it feels faintly familiar. Her entire immediate family remains in the U.S.. She is lonely. She is afraid. Trust comes slowly….She survives now on money sent from family in the U.S. when they can manage it.”
*** “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.”
[ Senator J. William Fulbright ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXII – Moral Clarity in Minnesota on MLK Day
***. “I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man, who having stepped outside rational morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently.” [ C. S. Lewis ]
this post presents excerpts from. “On this MLK Day, a letter from Minnesota” [Haley Taylor Schlitz; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/19/26 ]: “To Dr. King and my fellow Minnesotans..” :
3]. “We are encouraged to treat what is happening here as a local disturbance. A Minnesota problem. A protest problem. Something to be managed. But what is happening here is not simply “tension.” It is an argument about the character of public power. When a president threatens a state with “reckoning and retribution,” he is not using the language of neutral law. he is using the language of punishment. A government can enforce laws without promising vengeance. When it promises vengeance, it tells you what it believes the law is for.””
5] ‘..power does not only suppress through force. It also suppresses through framing. It trains the public to treat discomfort as disorder, and disorder as the real threat. It persuades decent people that their primary civic duty is to keep things calm, even if the calm is purchased with someone else’s fear.”
8] “You insisted on the interrelatedness of communities, and you rejected the narrow “outside agitator” idea. You insisted that no one in this country should be treated as an outsider anywhere within it….But this is not a Minnesota-only problem. It is a national test with a Minnesota address.”
11] “So what does moral clarity look like in Minnesota this MLK Day? It looks like refusing to confuse quiet with peace, and refusing to treat fear as normal. It looks like insisting that investigations be credible, independent and transparent enough to earn public trust, not simply being declared trustworthy by authority. It looks like leaders who speak with discipline and courage, and citizens who do not outsource their conscience.”
*** “Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.”
[ Cunningham Geikie ]
1] “This year, MLK Day arrives with masked federal agents fanning out across theTwin Cities and beyond, with unmarked vehicles and street-level operations reshaping daily life. and with a growing chill…”
2]. “Dr. King, we are not living in your era, but we are facing a familiar question: “Is ‘order” being used to protect the public, ot to protect power from accountability?”
4] “whatever your politics, you can feel the difference between a justice system that invites public trust and a justice system that treats the public concern as something to be contained.”
6] “Minnesota is drowning in effects-talk. We are being pulled into arguments about tone, about disruption, about whether grief is being expressed the “right” way. You can hear it…..You can see it…..And you can feel it…..what it means to live in a state where daily life is being deliberately reshaped by fear.”
7] “But the cause is what keeps demanding attention. The integrity of an investigation….The fear many communities feel….and when citizens and lawful residents begin to move through public life as if visibility itself is risk.”
9] “If a president can promise retribution against a state for its politics, that is not just rhetoric. it is a message to every other state. if federal institutions can be pressured into secrecy or political targeting, and the public is told to accept silence as a strategy, that is not just an internal dispute. It is an instruction about what accountability will look like from here forward.”
10] “If the new dream is a nightmare, it is not because people are speaking out. It is because trhe public is being trained to accept intimidation as governance, and to accept silence as legitimacy.”
***. “The Aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.” [ George Washington; 11/1/1790 ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXI. – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”, V
***. “Is life so dear or peaceful so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” [ Patrick Henry; 3/23/1775 ]
This post is thre 5th in a series to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Away from the Renee Good and Alex Pretti MURDER videos, others suffer indignities. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on people, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end whern ICE thugs and Trump DICTATORSHIP cease to DELIBERATELY inflict chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Following is the story of one man’s experiences on one day’s patrol: “My experience with ICE as a bystander, now in sharp relief” [Jaron Magstadt; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/8/26]. Excerpts below:
3] “I then followed the sound of whistles to find two more unmarked vehicles back in front of the strip mall. I ran over to see a masked agent holding a can of pepper spray to my partner’s face, threatening to mace them.”
4]. “We followed the vehicles throughout the parking lot as they moved to a different store on the same lot. Before leaving the lot completely, on of the SUV’s, which was facing my partner and I, accelerated toward us in a perceived attempt to run us over, or at the very least a threat to do so.”
1]. “The events of Jan. 7, while a clear escalation, are just one example of ICE sowing fear and terror in our community. I was on patrol for ICE with my partner and other community members….There had been community reports of ICE being active in that area throughout the day, so we showed up in support of our neighbors.”
2]. “I was pacing up and down the sidewalk in front of the strip mall when I saw a blue SUV with no plates drive past me. I quickly followed it behind the building…where I witnessed two more unmarked vehicles pull up to surround a young man on an electric scooter. Four or five men in masks and vests labeled ICE jumped out. They asked him for his Social Security number, if he had a visa, and if he could prove his citizenship. I could not hear his response…but they held a phone camera to hid face and let him go.” [SO – YOU are walking – 4 masked men demand YOUR I.D. – to prove to THEM that YOU are an American citizen !!!!!!! – Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China? – no, “America” ]
5]. “After the agents left, it was clear that fear was radiating throughout the strip mall. All of the shop doors were locked, with customers watching the events unfold through the window, looks of terror across their faces.”
6]. “I share this knowing that my experience is not an isolated event. My neighbors are living in fear of being taken from their families, and so are many across Minnesota because of ICE.”
***. “Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group – and this is true equally of a household or a nation – devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.” [ Lewis Mumford ]
With Justice For All 
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