Written by a Minneapolis resident, a political moderate, posted on Managed Care Matters, on January 30 (exerpts, go to the posting for the full report):

Our rights in Minnesota are being violated like nothing I ever imagined possible in the United States. First, the 4th Amendment is regularly violated. Masked men with no warrants are breaking in anywhere they want. They are setting a precedent, eroding our right to privacy. Politics swing back and forth. Right now, those with brown skin (black, Asian, Latino, Indian – all are fair game to ICE in Minnesota) – or those who support those with brown skin – are being abused, but the pendulum will likely swing the other way. If there is political backlash and the left wins overwhelmingly, which looks to be likely if there are still elections, the next administration will have precedent for breaking into any home with force and taking guns, persecuting certain Christian sects, etc

Here is the experience of a friend of mine who lives one mile away. She is Indian and her husband is white. Their son has brown skin. They can no longer let him outside to walk the dog. Maybe because it’s known that she works on DEI for a large company or posted something about ICE but a car followed her and her husband for miles the other day. They noticed a car following every turn they made when heading home, so they took a bunch of haphazard turns that the car followed. The driver eventually gave up. This is the United States. She and her husband are US citizens with good jobs. They are good, amazing people, and a US government employee intentionally created fear and stalked them.

A friend of a friend disappeared with his child home alone. He just disappeared. I don’t believe he’s a US citizen, but he’s a good dude with a good job. He’s gone, and his wife and child have no idea where he was taken.

A school near me with a significant Latino population had 3 out of 27 kindergarten children show up, because they are too scared to leave their homes. Many don’t have enough money for food, but going to school is unsafe. Many are US citizens, but ICE has snatched many US citizens around here.