The Receipts
Facts and sources for those trying to spread the truth about ICE’s violent and lawless occupation of MN, organized by which type of person you’re trying to persuade.
In case they say “well there must be a reason for them to do this”
Yes! There are several!
- Here’s the Trump administration demanding we hand over control of our elections in order to stop the occupation (please see the “law and order” section below for takedowns of the lies included in the administration’s letter.) (sidebar but—state’s rights? Hello?)
Bondi seeks Minnesota voter rolls, welfare data to "help bring back law and order" in wake of shootings - CBS News
Minnesota's secretary of state rejected a request from Attorney General Pam Bondi for federal access state voter rolls and welfare data, as tensions flare in Minneapolis after a man was shot and killed by immigration agents.
- Here they are trying to override Minnesotans’ objections to mining our pristine boundary waters. (As an added note—the mining company isn’t even US-based. The money will be headed to Trump’s cronies outside our borders. I oppose it anyway because this endangers the wildlife and drinking water of…a huge number of people, but I guess some people care about that as well.)
US House votes to lift mining ban near Boundary Waters Canoe Area | AP News
Congressional Republicans have moved closer to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a premier destination for outdoors lovers in remote northeastern Minnesota.
- He’s been doing this to the states that voted against him. Like it’s not subtle.
Trump Discriminating Against Blue States Sets Up Historic Crisis
Opinion: Judge Nancy Gertner, David L. Faigman, and Erwin Chemerinsky warn Donald Trump targeting his enemies in blue states could lead to conflicts between the federal government and states not seen since the Civil War.
For the “think of the children” crowd:
- 6 children in a minivan on the way home from soccer were gassed by ICE, who threw the canister into their vehicle. A 6 month old infant was hospitalized for days as a result.
Minneapolis family, six children tear gassed after they were caught in clash between ICE and protesters | CNN
A family trying to get home from their son’s basketball game in Minneapolis on Wednesday found themselves between protesters and federal agents, before they were tear gassed in their car and the mother had to administer CPR to her infant.
- Multiple children were kidnapped right off their school bus, including a 5 year old boy who was kidnapped right in front of family after being used as bait. He is a legal asylum seeker and pretty obviously not a violent criminal. He has since vanished across state lines
What Happens After a Child Is Taken Into ICE Custody? | TIME
Five-year-old Liam Ramos' detention by ICE has sparked questions about the policies underlying the agency's operations.
ICE detains 4 Minnesota students, including 5-year-old, school district says
Vice President JD Vance, who is in Minneapolis, asked: "Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death?"
'They are circling our schools,' superintendent says after 5-year-old detained by ICE | PBS News
The ICE operations in the Twin Cities are also affecting children who are caught up in the surge of personnel and detentions. A 5-year-old boy who was held by federal agents is a student in the Columbia Heights School District. Liz Landers discussed the incident with Superintendent Zena Stenvik.
As ICE targets Twin Cities schools & bus stops, even citizens keep kids home - MinnPost
Fear, anger and chaos as classrooms empty out, distance learning fails, student mental health suffers and teachers struggle.
- ICE stating loudly and proudly that they take no accountability for sexual assaults that occur in their detaining facilities- including those perpetuated by their officers.
ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees | American Civil Liberties Union
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody | WIRED
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states.
- They have an entire detention center dedicated to 5 and under children who have been kidnapped. These are our “dangerous criminals”?
At least 3 "tender age" shelters set up for child migrants | AP News
The Trump administration has set up at least three "tender age" shelters to detain babies and other young children who have been forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.
Why the Trump administration is detaining immigrant children – and what happens to them next | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years ago
- Multiple school districts have gone to virtual learning. School parents have had to take up patrols as ICE keeps sniffing around schoolyards, presumably for more “bait”.
Minnesota school districts offering online learning amid ICE surge concerns | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Several Minnesota school districts are offering online learning this week due to concerns about the ICE surge in Minnesota.
For the Second Amendment fans:
- NRA’s statement about the murder of a nurse who worked at the local Veterans’ hospital. He never pulled his gun; we have video proof from many angles. He had a gun he was legally allowed to carry, so they shot him many, many times while holding him down.
NRA Makes Rare Statement Against Trump Admin Over Alex Pretti Shooting - Newsweek
The NRA rebuked a senior federal prosecutor’s remarks on armed encounters with police after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
For “Law and Order” fans:
- People seem to have forgotten that being undocumented is not actually a crime! That’s why it’s not handled by the criminal justice system. It is not illegal.
Undocumented Immigrants Are Not Criminals | U.S. Immigration Law Counsel
At US-ILC, we listen, we care, we deliver: Let our 89 years of combined experience help you navigate the complexities of immigration law. In this p.
- Some is documentation on ICE arresting thousands of citizens with no due process, no Miranda rights, and not even with anything they can be charged for. Often accompanied by violent beatings.
MN ICE Witness - ICE and CBP Civil Rights Incidents in Minnesota
Video and image documentation of ICE and CBP civil rights incidents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
US citizen says ICE detained him in underwear in frigid cold with no warrant | AP News
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say | Minnesota | The Guardian
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
- ICE is grabbing people without even knowing their names, with no proof other than “brown with accent” or “filming”.
‘It’s like they’re hunting’: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE | US immigration | The Guardian
Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has led some people to take drastic measures to ensure their safety
Border Patrol agent detains US citizen, tells him it’s ‘because of your accent’
A man said a U.S. Border Patrol agent detained him outside his home after accusing him of not being a U.S. citizen because of his accent.
- ICE is claiming they can go into any property they want (including your house) with full legal impunity, and doing so. They were told that they have this right in an official memo from the Trump administration. This is illegal.
Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant | AP News
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
ICE has been entering homes without judicial warrants since last summer, sources say
A DHS official went to Los Angeles in June to brief officers on the new policy ahead of an immigration enforcement action, two administration officials told NBC News.
US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo | WIRED
The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.
- ICE is lying about it being illegal to film them, and trying to pressure websites like Facebook to give them the information of anyone who posts videos.
What to know about legality of taking photo, video of ICE operations
Learn what the law protects when recording ICE operations and how to safely document immigration encounters in public spaces.
Your Right to Film ICE and Federal Law Enforcement - NYCLU
ICE says it’s illegal to record agents, but is DHS policy actually unlawful? | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Several videos posted to social media show ICE agents in Minnesota telling observers to stop recording. Some observers say they've been detained simply for filming. A federal judge recently found DHS has adopted an unlawful policy that suppresses First Amendment rights.
- ICE is brazenly lying about multiple murders they conducted in broad daylight.
First the Shooting. Then the Lies. - The Atlantic
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
Minneapolis ICE shooting: Eyewitness accounts contradict ICE statement | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
A woman was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, but witness accounts contradict what federal officials say happened. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calls the claim the shooting was self-defense “bullshit" and is a “garbage narrative" after seeing video of the shooting.
Minneapolis ICE shooting: A minute-by-minute timeline of how Renee Nicole Good died - ABC News
ABC News' frame-by-frame review of video from Wednesday's ICE shooting in Minneapolis examines what happened before, during, and after the incident.
Man killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis was ICU nurse | AP News
Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
A minute-by-minute timeline of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti involving federal agents - ABC News
In total, 10 shots were fired in less than five seconds, according to a forensic audio analysis of the videos conducted for ABC News.
- ICE is harassing police and refusing to comply with police investigations of murders.
Local cops among those targeted by immigration agents in Minnesota
Police chiefs in Minnesota said their officers were among those being targeted by immigration agents operating in the state.
Minnesota Police Chief Warns ICE Is Targeting His Cops Now | The New Republic
Masked ICE agents are terrorizing Minnesota residents—including local police officers.
Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on investigation | PBS News
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is “exploring all options to ensure a state level investigation can continue” and that they’re “speaking to our local partners on paths forward.”
- Police chiefs around the country are issuing statements about their own state’s view of the illegal activity of ICE.
Local law enforcement leaders urge added oversight, accountability of ICE as complaints surge in Minnesota - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
Local law enforcement leaders in Minnesota are calling for more accountability and oversight of ICE agents in the state.
Philadelphia sheriff lambasts ICE, threatens arrests | Fox News
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal slammed ICE as "madeup, fake, wannabe law enforcement" officers who violate both the "legal" and "moral" law.
Los Angeles officials say ICE keeps them in the dark on raids. That hurts protest response, police say | CNN
Some blame state’s sanctuary laws for why federal agents are keeping Los Angeles law enforcement at arm’s length.
- ICE is lying about Minnesota crime rates
MN Dept. of Corrections refutes ICE claims on number of arrests | kare11.com
The Minnesota Department of Corrections held a news conference Thursday morning to address what it calls "misinformation" by the Department of Homeland Security.
- ICE is whining about being “assaulted” by people laughing at them, shouting at them, refusing them services (remember that republican law that says you can deny services due to your beliefs? We can use that, too!), or putting water outside their hotel room. They say they can shoot people and it’s fine, but people stopping them from kidnapping others with things like yelling, whistles, and singing is “assault” to them. They then used this to try to suspend our right to assembly.
ICE is using aggressive tactics to bolster arrests, experts say. The government says agents are being smeared | CNN
An array of immigration incidents nationwide have been caught on camera by bystanders, revealing aggressive tactics by federal agents since President Donald Trump took office in January, experts told CNN. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to CNN federal agents are facing “smearing” by claims the agency is using “harsher approaches,” and said they “put their lives on the line every day to enforce the law.”
Speedway faces boycott calls after ICE agents kicked out of gas station - Newsweek
"We don’t support ICE and nobody here does," the alleged employee says of the interaction with ICE.
- ICE running people off the road and then saying people are attacking them with vehicles.
Video shows woman get pulled from car by ICE agents during Minnesota operation | Fox News
Video shows woman allegedly blocking ICE agents as Minnesota protests escalate against immigration enforcement. Federal officials report 60 agitators were charged in five days.
Minneapolis ICE shooting: Renee Good's death ruled homicide by Hennepin Co. Medical Examiner | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
A report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner listed Renee Good's death as a homicide.
Wife says ICE chase led to crash that sent St. Paul man to hospital | kare11.com
The man remains hospitalized as his wife questions why ICE was pursuing him.
- ICE insists that not only should they be allowed to do all this, but they also deserve anonymity. (Probably because they know state police are building legal cases against them).
Do ICE agents have absolute immunity? No, experts say, but it’s not easy for a state to prosecute | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.
FBI Asks ICE Agents to Identify Themselves Following String of Crimes by Impersonators | Senator Jesse Arreguin
Official website of Senator Jesse Arreguín, representing California Senate District 07.
For “But-But- The Fraud!” nuts:
- The current round of “fraud” accusations was started by a YouTuber who showed up with a camera at a bunch of daycares and concluded, since nobody would just let the strange man come onto the private property with the children, that they were hiding something.
Fact check: Here's what's happening with child care fraud in Minnesota
Evidence is nowhere near the epidemic levels a viral YouTube video would suggest — but it hasn’t stopped a crackdown on child care funding. Here's a fact check.
What we know about a Minneapolis day care center that was highlighted in Nick Shirley’s video about alleged fraud | CNN
Quality Learning Center – which became the focus of anger and ridicule after a viral video looking at Somali businesses in Minneapolis – has a history of code violations, but none that suggested fraud.
- The other “fraud” republicans are supposedly up in arms about was already prosecuted. Arrests were made.
Everything we know about Minnesota's massive fraud schemes - CBS News
A viral social media video has put Minnesota's long-running fraud scandal at the center of the national conversation. Here's what to know.
Attorney General Ellison charges three in largest-ever Medicaid fraud prosecution by AGO | Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Minneapolis woman pleads guilty in $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme | Internal Revenue Service
Feb. 25, 2025 — A Minneapolis woman has pleaded guilty for her role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.
- For those claiming we’re too open to immigrants, immigrants have always added to Minnesota’s economy, which is much better and more robust than states with harsher immigration rules.
-Also, it is worth pointing out to Republicans and Independents who want to reduce government spending that ICE’s budget is bloated to the extreme, and they want to keep expanding it.
How ICE became the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency : NPR
ICE's budget hovered around $10 billion for years. But President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking the agency's funding to unprecedented levels.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/25_0613_ice_fy26-congressional-budget-justificatin.pdf
Big Budget Act Creates a “Deportation-Industrial Complex” | Brennan Center for Justice
The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle.
Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it | PBS News
One budget expert says the GOP’s big bill is “supercharging ICE” in ways Americans may not fully realize. There are few restraints on the spending, which lasts through 2029, when Trump's term ends.
- Here they are lying about deporting veterans, under oath, and getting caught.
ICE Deported Hundreds of Immigrant Veterans – And Has No Record of Them in Their Database - American Immigration Council
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not following its own policies—and hundreds of men and women who have served in our military are getting deported for minor offenses due to the agency’s negligence. A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released last week details how ICE ignores two of its long-standing policies that […]
Purple Heart Veteran, Deported Last June, Confronts Noem at Congressional Hearing | Military.com
Sae Joon Park's surprise video appearance at last week's Congressional hearing sheds light on how veterans are getting caught in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown web.
- Here they are denying people access to their lawyers—again, violating one of our constitutional rights.
Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees - ABC News
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held.
Klobuchar, Smith Call on ICE to Allow Access to Legal Counsel - News Releases - U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) are calling on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to follow federal law and the Constitution by allowing people in detention to have access to legal counsel. Reports indicate that some of those detained, including at least one U.S. citizen, are being denied their constitutional right to access an attorney. “As you know the right to due process and the right to counsel are foundational constitutional gua...
Court Issues Major Ruling Protecting Access to Counsel in Immigration Raids Case | Public Counsel
We are proud to share an important victory in our ongoing fight to uphold the ...
For the “it’s a bunch of fringe terrorists resisting legal law enforcement” crowd:
- Firstly, some images of Minnesotans showing up in the middle of a negative 20-degree work day to protest ICE. We had the first general strike in 80 years. Look at these pictures. Minneapolis is a small city. We have never had this kind of cross-class, cross-generation, cross-race, cross-party lines unity before.
This is not fringe. This is because everybody here has stories of seeing ICE try to beat and abduct people. In the city, in our small towns, and in our suburbs.
Rural Communities Stand With Somali-American, Other Vulnerable Neighbors Amidst ICE Siege on Minnesota | The Daily Yonder
President Donald Trump inaugurated his government’s massive ICE operation targeting Somali-Americans in Minnesota in early December by calling the entire
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-ve-never-felt-less-safe-survey-captures-fear-anxiety-over-ice-agent-surge-in-minnesota/ar-AA1UAMYY?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
ICE Activity Impacts Local Businesses Across Minneapolis
Rising ICE activity impacts local businesses in Minneapolis, keeping residents home and slowing local business activity.
ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’ | Minnesota | The Guardian
As Trump-deployed agents pervade the region, students struggle to carry on with lessons while carrying grief and fear that they or their loved ones will be taken
- Some MN and Congressional Republicans are also begging for the federal government to stop.
GOP lawyer ends bid for Minn. governor, calls ICE effort a ‘disaster’ : NPR
Chris Madel — a Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota — has dropped out of the state's gubernatorial race, saying he no longer supports the immigration crackdown taking place in Minneapolis.
Congressional GOP criticism grows over Pretti shooting and Minnesota ICE operation - 6abc Philadelphia
Congressional Republicans appeared split Monday in their responses to the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Across parties, when people know what’s actually happening, they are upset. So please, please help get the truth out here, and ask people to speak up to their elected officials against this occupation. Republicans know this is tremendously illegal and unpopular, and are relying on ignorance and racism to get away with it. Don’t let them. And please- speak up offline! People not on social media have very very little idea what’s going on here.
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