ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take

[In It to Win It]

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. – The hallways at Valley View Elementary School used to be bustling with children, eager to get to class and see their friends. They’re silent now.

Outside, immigration agents drive up and down the street multiple times a day. They linger at dismissal time, when kids are walking home or being picked up. They follow parents driving other people’s kids home; those kids’ families are too scared to leave their houses. They wait at bus stops. At the nearby high school, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sit out back to try to catch students exiting that way. School staff, retired teachers, parents and grandparents stand outside in shifts, with whistles, ready to blow if they see unmarked cars driving near the school when children are outside.

It’s common to see a string of empty cars lining the main road through this Minneapolis suburb. Doors are thrown open and the cars are sometimes still running, but there’s nobody in them — ICE agents ripped the people out of them and whisked them away.

This is how life is now for families in this largely Latino community that has been, for the past two months, under what the Trump administration says is a campaign to deport undocumented immigrants who are criminals. Except that’s not at all what’s happening here. Masked and heavily armed federal agents are just terrorizing brown and Black people, regardless of their citizenship status or criminal background.

That includes children.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-minneapolis-schools-children_n_697d3049e4b0b1de95c14d5c?origin=home-latest-news-unit

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

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[Deuxcents]

1. This is no way ANY community in this country should put up with this. It's occupation, pure n simple

But what can be done to put an end to this and keep it from expanding to other communities?

[yellow dahlia]

4. Sometimes all I can do is sputter and swear.

[Blue Owl]

2. And at the top of the command chain is a GODDAMNED PEDOPHILE

How in God’s name is this allowed to happen???

[Norrrm]

3. It is much, much safer to arrest children than attack armed MS13.

It is much, much safer to arrest children than attack armed MS13.

[IcyPeas]

6. This ⬆️ 1000 times!!!

[Bread and Circuses]

13. Thank YOU! I said this last summer when ICE was at the Home Depot's in Southern California in the mornings....

These are day laborers trying to make cash to live. Literally.

The gang bangers and criminals are not standing in front of Home Depot at 7 AM

Why isn’t ICE at the KNOWN criminal hangouts at 1 AM????

Scared? Yes.

[mysteryowl]

5. I look at "iceout.org" and see how they have concentrated on

Columbia Hts, which is a very small suburb of low-middle income folks. Population 22,000.

[iemanja]

7. That's Liam's school.

[Wicked Blue]

8. F*cking MONSTERS

[Cha]

9. Malaria Needs to Shut the Fuck Up about

"kids are my priority" .. as1st Nazi married to NAZI PEDO.

[Initech]

10. It's no longer about whether or not it's illegal.

It's about ethnic cleansing, white supremacy, and asserting dominance. Fuck this administration to hell.

[EnergizedLib]

11. If pardoned in 2029

Just ignore the pardons and go full speed ahead in prosecuting these monsters with Nuremberg Trials anyway.

[democrank]

12. Traumatizing children is now an accepted Trump policy. Think about that.

In the United States of America armed gangs of government-sponsored thugs are allowed to roam around and grab children…..or leave them unattended on the side of the road after their parents are kidnapped.

WHO IS GOING TO STOP THIS?

[cab67]

14. Schools in Evanston, IL, went into lockdown mode on Halloween

My daughter attends school in Evanston. ICE deliberately ramped up its work on Halloween and included some parks near the schools.

Parents gathered near the schools during dismissal to make sure nothing went down.

[bluestarone]

15. I can't believe ICE isn't breaking local laws leaving cars running and doors open?

WTF?