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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are (www.nytimes.com)
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Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

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[–] 23 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Can someone explain to me why this is focused on the city of Minneapolis specifically? Why is ICE focusing specifically on that city of all of them?

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Racism against Somalis plus he hates Walz for running against him

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.

    Edit: I found the article.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Aside from revenge against Walz... one theory is that we're a functioning community that's ethnically diverse, relatively progressive, union strong, and very friendly to queer folks. Fox News would have you believe that any one of those features creates a godless hellscape, but we're doing pretty good. Minnesota grew a huge budget surplus under Walz, and then we invested it in schools and social programs. The Republican tradition is to destroy something (see: the federal government) and say, "See? Told you it was broken!"

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