U.S. Citizen Accuses ICE Agents of Detaining Him in Freezing Conditions with No Warrant

Minnesota senator decries ICE's 'violent kidnappings'

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been stopping people “based solely on the color of their skin” and even drew their guns on an off-duty cop, a group of Minnesota police chiefs alleged, according to USA Today. Minnesota Senator Erin Maye Quade, who represents a suburban district, told “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio that ICE isn’t just stirring tensions in Minneapolis; the issue is statewide. “It is happeni…

ICYMI: ICE Agents Force Elderly US Citizen Outside In His Underwear

Source: ChongLy “Scott” Thao Family GoFundMe / Screenshot If there is no truth to the notion that immigration agents deployed by the Trump administration are terrorizing communities, and profiling and detaining non-white people, whether they’re U.S. citizens or not, then why is there no shortage of incidents in which agents have engaged in unprovoked violence, racial profiling, warrantless arrests and the dehumanizing of Black and brown people, …

Bluesky Brain, X Brain: Two Viral Stories From Minnesota

illustration by Daniel MedinaIn 2019, then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey backed an independent innovation called Bluesky. The idea: instead of relying on one central hub like Twitter, social media posts would function like e-mail, with an infinite number of carriers whose users could communicate no matter what system they used.In the half decade since, Bluesky fully spun off, Elon Musk acquired and renamed Twitter, and the platforms became partisan mi…

ICE detains US citizen in underwear during warrantless Minnesota raid

A Department of Homeland Security official found herself in a wildly implausible position after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a warrantless raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, detaining U.S. citizen ChongLy “Scott” Thao in his underwear in freezing conditions — only to release him later without charges. Thao’s family and local leaders sharply dispute DHS’s claim that he matched the description of convicted sex offenders they were…

U.S. citizen says ICE took him at gunpoint in only underwear despite frigid cold and no warrant

ST. PAUL — Federal immigration agents bashed open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by the AP.

U.S. citizen accuses ICE agents of detaining him in freezing conditions with no warrant

ChongLy (Scott) Thao says immigration agents broke down his door and dragged him into the snow in his underwear