Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and fellow U.
S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were refused service at a Speedway convenience store near Minneapolis on Wednesday, underscoring the increasingly hostile climate faced by federal immigration authorities.
According to Conservative Daily News, video circulating on social media shows Bovino and other federal agents being turned away after a Speedway employee allegedly declared that staff dont support ICE. Independent journalist Cam Higby later visited the same Minneapolis-area Speedway and recorded footage in which he confronted an employee about the incident, asking whether they worked at the store and whether they had refused service to the agents.
The worker did not deny the action and made clear it was deliberate. You guys kicked him out? Higby asked.
Yeah, I did. Because I wanted to. We dont support ICE. Nobody here does. Neither do I, the employee replied, openly boasting about denying service to federal law enforcement. When Higby then turned to Bovino and asked whether it is legal for a business to refuse service to federal agents, the worker again cut in.
If it is, I personally dont care, the Speedway employee said, dismissing any concern about the rule of law or respect for federal authority. The confrontation comes amid a wave of anti-ICE agitation that has intensified since the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Good, who was killed after an ICE officer fired as she accelerated her vehicle toward him.
Demonstrations have spread nationwide, with activists increasingly targeting anyone they associateaccurately or notwith immigration enforcement. A video that circulated Friday on X shows anti-ICE protesters misidentifying a man as an ICE agent simply because he was driving a vehicle similar to those commonly used by the agency.
As tensions mounted, the Pentagon reportedly ordered roughly 1,500 active-duty troops to be placed on standby for potential deployment in Minneapolis, a striking step that reflects how radicalized anti-enforcement activism has become. The Department of Homeland Security and Speedway did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundations request for comment, leaving unanswered whether the company condones employees refusing service to federal officers carrying out their lawful duties.
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