EDITORIAL
Minnesotans Resist Domestic Terror by the Administration

Jan 19, 2026

On the morning of January 7, an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot and killed Renee Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother, as she attempted to drive away from him.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that Ross feared for his life as Good drove her car right at him, but multiple videos showed this to be a lie. He was just pissed because she’d refused to get out of the car. After he shot Good, from two feet away, he was recorded saying, “f—’ing bitch” as her car moved away. He just didn’t like being challenged. And so he killed her.

This is murder, pure and simple.

This came in the midst of what has amounted to a military invasion of Minneapolis, just the latest city invaded by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection forces. Over 3,000 of these officers have been sent to the city, outnumbering Minneapolis’s own police force by five to one. They have been going door-to-door and patrolling residential streets, accosting anyone passing by and demanding to see IDs and proof of citizenship. They have arrested many—the large majority of whom are citizens. Armed with guns, teargas, flash grenades and rubber bullets, they have attempted to disperse crowds showing up to protest.

Various reasons have been given for this focus on Minneapolis, such as supposed fraud in childcare and health care facilities run by Somali residents in the city. But these accusations of fraud have been shown to be vastly overblown—and the vast majority of members of Minnesota’s Somali community are either immigrants with legal status, or citizens. These are just excuses to scapegoat an immigrant community from what Trump has called a “shithole country,” a racist, inflammatory slur.

And they seem to be excuses to go after Democratic politicians in a city and a state run by Democrats. As has been the case with every city Trump has sent ICE and the National Guard into.

And the administration probably wants to rewrite the narrative of Minneapolis, the site of massive protests in the wake of the George Floyd killing five years ago.

Trump’s whole purpose in sending these invading forces of armed thugs into these cities has been to attempt to intimidate the population, to get us to accept a paramilitary presence on Amerca’s city streets. Trump wants us cowed, broken and afraid. He, and the ruling class he represents, want this to be the new normal. They know that they will be making things worse and worse for the working class in the future, and they want to make sure ahead of time that the population is docile enough to be forced to accept these attacks.

Well, the people of Minneapolis have had other ideas.

From the start of the ICE invasion, they have not allowed themselves to be intimidated or divided. They have stood together, organizing community watch groups patrolling the streets and signaling to each other whenever ICE troops have been spotted. They have come out to confront those troops, braving the tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. They have chased after the ICE troops, throwing rocks and snowballs, yelling “shame!”, and yelling at them to get out of their city. Plans have been announced for a city-wide closing, an “Economic Blackout,” and large-scale protests on January 23.

In other words, they have refused to be intimidated or broken.

In response, Trump has threatened to send army troops to Minneapolis, further escalating the confrontation.

These protests have been echoed across the country, in other cities where ICE has appeared. Protests have occurred practically everywhere ICE has shown its head.

These may not be particularly effective at stopping ICE attacks and arrests, but they are visible. They send a message—people are not alone, if they’re disgusted and angry with what is being done. And for those engaging in these fights and protests, this activity is a starting point. People learn by doing, what works and what doesn’t. People lose their fear of action—they learn that something is possible. People can start to come together, to plan, to build. And what starts with protests against ICE can expand into something greater.

And the working class itself can start to direct a fight, to defend its own interests as a united force, native-born and immigrant. Leaders can come out of these fights—leaders who understand that the only solution is to address the root cause itself: capitalist control and the system putting profit above all else.