Activists aligned with an anarchist collective say they are traveling into Minneapolis, Minnesota, to spend their days shadowing federal immigration agents and feeding real-time intelligence into an organized surveillance network.
According to the Daily Caller, the account appeared Wednesday in an anonymous post by the radical group CrimethInc, which described in the second person how activists allegedly left a house at 5 a.m. to trail Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles. The group claimed to join a call within a 1,000-person Signal chat devoted to local rapid response, a term used by anti-ICE organizers for nationwide networks that track and attempt to disrupt the agencys operations.
We came to Minneapolis after the murder of Renee Good because we wanted to understand what was happening in the city and to support the people who were fighting back, the CrimethInc post said, invoking the case of the 37-year-old woman whom an ICE agent fatally shot on Jan. 7 after she allegedly drove her car toward him. Even as guests, volunteers visiting from out of town, we feel like the whole city has our backs, the post added, portraying the city as broadly sympathetic to their cause despite the controversial nature of their tactics.
The article described how rapid response activists in the area reportedly rebuild their Signal chats every day, a practice that appears aimed at evading law enforcement monitoring and preserving operational secrecy. The group then recounted one of its claimed encounters with ICE, which involved identifying a federal vehicles license plate through a database maintained by activists and used to flag suspected government cars.
We pull out of the driveway and start our patrol. We hear another voice over the Signal call, the post reads, before quoting a dispatcher: This is Stump, I have a suspicious vehicle headed west on Main at the corner of 7th Avenue. Silver Dodge Ram, Texas plates Alpha Kilo Radio 3863, can I get a plate check? Yep, thats confirmed ICE, replies a second dispatcher a few seconds later, the article said, suggesting a level of coordination that blurs the line between protest and targeted surveillance of federal officers simply doing their jobs.
In a section outlining next steps, the post urges rapid response networks to escalate pressure on businesses accused of cooperating with ICE, including by disrupting airport operations. Every day, deportation flights leave from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport to other airports across the country, the unnamed group wrote. Yet airport blockades have yet to emerge.
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