ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground

"ICE and CBP agents roam the streets, though their tactics have shifted as of late: No longer acting like an occupying army, the Department of Homeland Security now operates like secret police. They do their best to blend in, to look like the people they terrorize, and in this, they often fail. Everyone knows that they're there, that they're watching."

"These fears have been realized. Children and parents have been snatched off the street while walking to school. People have been taken from their jobs and grabbed mid-commute, their empty cars left on the streets, hazard lights still flashing. And so those who are most vulnerable - immigrants at risk of deportation, US citizens who have learned that DHS will, depending on the color of a person's skin, detain first and ask questions later - have retreated into their homes."

Minneapolis exists under an intensive Department of Homeland Security presence that resembles secret policing rather than a conventional occupation. Agents from ICE and CBP blend into neighborhoods while surveilling residents and instilling constant fear. People have been seized in public: children and parents taken while walking to school, workers snatched from jobs and commuters grabbed mid-journey, often leaving cars abandoned with hazard lights blinking. Immigrants facing deportation and residents of color have withdrawn into their homes to avoid detention. Local communities have organized to resist and impede enforcement, following agents on the streets and confronting them.

Read at The Verge