Radical anti-ICE activists in Minnesota have built an organized rapid response apparatus designed to interfere with federal immigration enforcement and shield criminal illegal immigrants from lawful arrest.
According to The Post Millennial, these self-described Rapid Response Networks have published a detailed guide to their obstruction model on CrimethInc, a far-left website that brands itself as a "rebel alliance" think tank promoting leftist "collective action."
The Twin Cities network relies heavily on encrypted Signal chats coordinated by dispatchers, who divide the metropolitan area into zones and monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity, including by tracking vehicle identifiers such as license plates.
The CrimethInc guide explains that "Sometimes, multiple dispatchers overlap to split up the extra tasks of watching the chat, relaying reports to other channels, and checking license plates, of ICE agents, describing a layered system of surveillance and communication. Dispatch also helps people evenly distribute patrols across an area, takes notes, and assists people through confrontations. All patrollers in cars and on foot and stay on the call throughout their patrol. There is a constant flow of information, allowing other cars to decide whether they are well-positioned to join in, take over tailing the car, or continue searching for additional vehicles. In practice, this means activists are effectively shadowing federal officers in real time, raising serious concerns about harassment, interference with law enforcement, and public safety.
The patrollers referenced in the guide are individuals who physically follow ICE vehicles, sometimes rotating cars to avoid detection while maintaining continuous surveillance. Much of the license plate data is reportedly supplied by a dedicated faction known as Whipple Watch, which monitors vehicles entering and leaving the ICE headquarters Whipple building, turning a federal facility into a target of ongoing activist reconnaissance.
Once ICE movements are identified, the network rapidly disseminates alerts through Signal chats to mobilize additional activists across the city. The guide boasts that the network also has "a data collection team [that] collects anonymized data submitted from Whipple Watch and many of the local rapid response chats, aggregating them into consumable formats, such as interactive maps of hotspots," effectively building an intelligence system aimed at undermining federal immigration enforcement.
Beyond real-time tracking, the operation includes a sophisticated database infrastructure that catalogs vehicles associated with ICE. One team "admins [a] searchable database of license plates sorted by 'confirmed ICE,' 'suspected ICE,' 'confirmed not ICE,' and other categories," a tool that could easily be abused to dox or intimidate federal personnel and anyone merely suspected of cooperating with immigration authorities.
The network also emphasizes multilingual outreach to maximize participation and mobilization within immigrant communities. As the guide notes, "Finally, Spanish language relayers copy ICE alerts from dispatch calls and local chats, translate them, then send to large Spanish-language Signal and WhatsApp networks," ensuring that warnings about ICE presence spread quickly and widely, regardless of the legality of the individuals being shielded.
CrimethInc does not merely describe these tactics; it openly urges others to replicate them nationwide. The site encourages activists to "learn from" the Minnesota model and glorifies escalation, declaring that the fight against ICE is "defined by those who push the envelope. People use their cars and bodies to block agents and de-arrest targeted people. They throw snowballs and rocks; they kick back canisters of tear gas. They cover cars and agents with paint and break the windows of their cars. They dont stop screaming in the faces of abductors when they are hit, pepper sprayed, or shot with rubber bullets."
The rhetoric goes further, portraying federal officers as kidnappers and those who attack them as heroic resisters. The guide claims that those who "push the envelope" are "witnessing the masked abductions, undisclosed disappearances, and record-breaking deaths of this new emboldened ICE, and they are willing to take real risks to stop them," and insists that these individualswho are, in legal terms, engaging in potentially serious feloniesare "stronger, and braver in spite of it."
At a time when many Americans are demanding secure borders and the rule of law, the emergence of such coordinated, militant efforts to obstruct federal immigration enforcement underscores a growing clash between radical activist networks and the basic responsibilities of the state to enforce its own immigration laws.
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