Anti-ICE activists plan to install 1,000 street blockades across Minneapolis
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Leftist activists at the helm of the resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis have begun setting up street blockades to prevent the passage of federal officers through “patrol zones,” aiming to establish 1,000 encampment-esque fortresses across the city, according to planning documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The so-called security checkpoints, meant to intercept ICE vehicles, are guarded by self-deputized patrollers who accost any car or pedestrian that the activist brigade comes across, regardless of whether they are actually federal agents.
Footage of one such confrontation from Monday shows masked militants, operating an “ICE Out” inspection point, shove Latino videojournalist Jorge Ventura back into his vehicle, telling him, “Get in the f***ing car” and “You can’t film here.”
Ventura, who said the anti-ICE activists tried to steal his phone, was recording them checking cars one by one at a South Minneapolis stoplight, located on the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 32nd Street.
People stand near a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
As a physical obstruction, operatives part of a local coalition called “ICE Watch” had positioned in the middle of the street stolen traffic cones, barrels, and barricade beams spray-painted with “ICE Out” branding. The fort-like structure was reinforced with wood scaffolding, old furniture, and storage pallets propped up against the perimeter.
Ventura reported that an anti-ICE patrol was demanding to see identification during the shakedown process, logging the license plates of cars believed to be government property into a database, and cross-referencing the tracking system to vet vehicles suspected of belonging to or being rented by ICE.
“Looks like in our system your plates came up as an ICE plate,” one patroller told Ventura’s Somali Uber driver before the altercation. “That doesn’t seem like it’s the case. We’ll take this off the list.”
Another viral video captured members of an ICE watch unit, some wearing neon-colored crossing guard vests, stopping motorists at an intersection and not letting people pass until they ran their license plates.
A motorist receives a flyer at a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“So now we need permission to drive from these people?” asked a resident, …
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Leftist activists at the helm of the resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis have begun setting up street blockades to prevent the passage of federal officers through “patrol zones,” aiming to establish 1,000 encampment-esque fortresses across the city, according to planning documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The so-called security checkpoints, meant to intercept ICE vehicles, are guarded by self-deputized patrollers who accost any car or pedestrian that the activist brigade comes across, regardless of whether they are actually federal agents.
Footage of one such confrontation from Monday shows masked militants, operating an “ICE Out” inspection point, shove Latino videojournalist Jorge Ventura back into his vehicle, telling him, “Get in the f***ing car” and “You can’t film here.”
Ventura, who said the anti-ICE activists tried to steal his phone, was recording them checking cars one by one at a South Minneapolis stoplight, located on the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 32nd Street.
People stand near a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
As a physical obstruction, operatives part of a local coalition called “ICE Watch” had positioned in the middle of the street stolen traffic cones, barrels, and barricade beams spray-painted with “ICE Out” branding. The fort-like structure was reinforced with wood scaffolding, old furniture, and storage pallets propped up against the perimeter.
Ventura reported that an anti-ICE patrol was demanding to see identification during the shakedown process, logging the license plates of cars believed to be government property into a database, and cross-referencing the tracking system to vet vehicles suspected of belonging to or being rented by ICE.
“Looks like in our system your plates came up as an ICE plate,” one patroller told Ventura’s Somali Uber driver before the altercation. “That doesn’t seem like it’s the case. We’ll take this off the list.”
Another viral video captured members of an ICE watch unit, some wearing neon-colored crossing guard vests, stopping motorists at an intersection and not letting people pass until they ran their license plates.
A motorist receives a flyer at a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“So now we need permission to drive from these people?” asked a resident, …
Anti-ICE activists plan to install 1,000 street blockades across Minneapolis
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Leftist activists at the helm of the resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis have begun setting up street blockades to prevent the passage of federal officers through “patrol zones,” aiming to establish 1,000 encampment-esque fortresses across the city, according to planning documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The so-called security checkpoints, meant to intercept ICE vehicles, are guarded by self-deputized patrollers who accost any car or pedestrian that the activist brigade comes across, regardless of whether they are actually federal agents.
Footage of one such confrontation from Monday shows masked militants, operating an “ICE Out” inspection point, shove Latino videojournalist Jorge Ventura back into his vehicle, telling him, “Get in the f***ing car” and “You can’t film here.”
Ventura, who said the anti-ICE activists tried to steal his phone, was recording them checking cars one by one at a South Minneapolis stoplight, located on the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 32nd Street.
People stand near a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
As a physical obstruction, operatives part of a local coalition called “ICE Watch” had positioned in the middle of the street stolen traffic cones, barrels, and barricade beams spray-painted with “ICE Out” branding. The fort-like structure was reinforced with wood scaffolding, old furniture, and storage pallets propped up against the perimeter.
Ventura reported that an anti-ICE patrol was demanding to see identification during the shakedown process, logging the license plates of cars believed to be government property into a database, and cross-referencing the tracking system to vet vehicles suspected of belonging to or being rented by ICE.
“Looks like in our system your plates came up as an ICE plate,” one patroller told Ventura’s Somali Uber driver before the altercation. “That doesn’t seem like it’s the case. We’ll take this off the list.”
Another viral video captured members of an ICE watch unit, some wearing neon-colored crossing guard vests, stopping motorists at an intersection and not letting people pass until they ran their license plates.
A motorist receives a flyer at a blockade set up to deter federal immigration enforcement vehicles in Minneapolis, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“So now we need permission to drive from these people?” asked a resident, …
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