According to an employee of the Minneapolis airport, ICE agents will be “checking and verifying documents” for the next 3 weeks and that this will include patrolling jet bridges.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission says it doesn’t get advance notice of enforcement at the airport, and doesn’t coordinate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but that federal regulations give federal agents broad access to airport property. The agency refuses comment.
Bear in mind that:
- U.S. citizens aren’t required to show ID. Green card holders are required to carry their card.
- Citizens may still want to comply or else ICE might detain you improperly. Citizens in Minnesota have been violently detained by ICE. However, U.S. citizens have also been detained when ICE dismissed their IDs as fake.
- Minneapolis drivers licenses are available regardless of citizenship. Those with illegal presence can get one. That’s not a REAL ID, but you can still go through a security checkpoint without REAL ID.
Positioning on jet bridges is a post-security choke point where it’s easy to intercept someone right before boarding or immediately after deplaning. And the agency has broad authority within 100 miles of a border and most people live within 100 miles of the border. This is the ‘border exception’ where rights are said not to apply. Here, two U.S. citizens were arrested by a border officer for speaking Spanish at a convenience store in Montana.
ICE has expanded rapidly and has been badly managed for many years, creating a dangerous culture and one hostile to citizens and non-citizens alike.
- They have near-total authority. At ports of entry and within the 100-mile “border zone,” officers may search and question people without warrants or traditional Fourth Amendment thresholds.
- Immunity/no recourse. They have near-immunity from civil suits. In Egbert v. Boule (2022) the Supreme Court closed almost all Bivens-type damage claims against CBP agents, removing personal liability as a deterrent for bad behavior that exists for many other federal officers.
- CBP has a paramilitary, threat-hunting mindset. They wear uniforms, side arms, and go through drill-style briefings. Their chain-of-command ethos rewards compliance and toughness, not customer interaction.
- Expanded too quickly. Over the past two decades they’ve more than doubled their workforce, diluting requisite training and also leading to quality dilution of supervisors.
- Incentives matter. Performance metrics incentivize seizures, arrests and “hits.” Officers receive commendations, overtime and promotion points for enforcement statistics. There is no equivalent metric for traveler satisfaction.
- No discipline. There’s very little internal discipline. 97% of complaints end in “No Action Taken.” According to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, 47% of CBP employees don’t think misconduct is punished at any level.
- Union protections. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the ~30,000 CBP Office of Field Operations employees (including CBP Officers), negotiates “last chance” and arbitration provisions that make removals for misconduct difficult – and given the litigation managers have to deal with they regualrly don’t bother.
- Power differential. Most people being inspected lack legal representation, time, or practical recourse. The power differential itself breeds an imperious dynamic unless an individual officer chooses otherwise.
- Personnel inclined to this behavior self-select into the role. CBP’s structure and recruiting pipeline create self-selection effects. Jobs that promise wide discretionary power, symbols of authority, generous overtime, early retirement, and a quasi-military identity tend to pull in applicants who are more disposed to hierarchy, control, and confrontation. Additionally, more than one-third of CBP’s workforce is ex-military.
Hayek’s chapter 10 in The Road to Serfdom (“Why The Worst Get On Top”) argues that in areas of centralized political decision-making, advancement hinges on wielding coercion, systematically rewarding the most ruthless, unscrupulous, and manipulative individuals, while crowding out those with stronger morals or respect for dissent. In short: concentrated power acts as a selection filter, so “the worst get on top.”
Stepped-up presence in Minneapolis feels responsive to anti-immigration enforcement activism in the area. It seems to punish local resistance.
TSA has its own problems, but at least their presence is aligned with an an aviation security goal. They check identity against government watch lists, and shouldn’t be distracted with checking for legal presence.
Having an additional checkpoint at gates has no legitimate connection to air travel, and in fact serves as a government discreationary layer over the right to travel. And make no mistake, there is a right to travel by air.
The right to move freely between states is a well-established principle in U.S. law affirmed by several Supreme Court cases under the Privileges and Immunities Clause and Commerce Clause.
- Crandall v. Nevada (1868) struck down a Nevada law imposing a tax on individuals leaving the state because states couldn’t restrict citizen movement across state lines.
- United States v. Guest (1966) held that there is a Constitutional right to travel from state to state.
- Shapiro v. Thompson (1969) held that states could not impose residency requirements to restrict welfare benefits. The Court found that the right to travel includes the right to migrate to another state and receive equal treatment as a resident.
- Saenz v. Roe (1999) struck down a California law that limited welfare benefits for new residents. The Court delineated three components of the right to travel: The right to enter and leave another state; the right to be treated as a welcome visitor rather than a hostile outsider; the right to become a resident of any state and enjoy the same privileges and immunities as other residents.
Traveling between distant domestic points, and between domestic points including the mainland and U.S. territories, without air travel is impractical and burdening the right to travel makes it difficult, inadvisable, or uncomfortable to exercise the right. There may still be balancing of the right against other government interests, but it’s a right nonetheless.
Federal agents are sometimes at jet bridges at boarding and arrival for international flights at JFK. It’s never been an issue, but, it would be unusual for domestic flights. Hoping this is not just a way to intimidate people, yet, inevitably, I suppose it is. Fortunately, most people who travel by air have their documentation ready. Be safe.
All those comments at the end are useless when you have the current admin in power and the generally broad immunity that ICE enjoys. The rush to call the slain girl a domestic terrorist and not even pretend about an impartial investigation tells you all you need to know in case there was any doubt.
You are correct in that US citizens are not required to carry identification. That said, within 100 miles of any US land or sea border they are required to supply information to assist CBP / ICE agents to enable identification.
Every single non-US citizen is required to carry identification and evidence of their immigration status at all times. Failure to do so is a criminal offense.
Instead of acting like a whiny little baby, you can make things easy on yourself and avoid unnecessary delay by just answering the CBP / ICE agents questions. Going into whiny little baby mode will just cause problems and very likely mean you will miss your flight and lose the money you paid for your ticket.
Of course, on the plus side it’s always funny watching social justice warriors dragged down the sewer when they try to fight armed law enforcement personnel. Personally I like watching that.
I really would like to see Congress impose some reasonable limits on ICE and CBP. To start with, the 100-mile limit needs to be rolled back to around 20 miles. The larger limit gives ICE control over entire states, essentially removing civil liberties from those citizens. Of course, that won’t occur until there is a reasonable Congress and President in place, so not any time soon.
@J.C. — Have your ‘fun’ while it lasts, yet… “when they try to fight armed law enforcement personnel” …oh, like on January 6, 2021? Those mere ‘tourists’ at the Capitol should have just ‘compiled,’ right?
yuck. and I’m supposed to fly through MSP a few times coming up. Might need to change that
@Ron gets it. Congress needs to grow a spine. So do the Courts. So do businesses and law firms. So do we all.
The unsaid reality is that these agents are absolutely going to target people of color, even if they are citizens, naturalized, or lawful residents with green cards, etc. (Sadly, if you’re of Somali descent in Minneapolis, best advice is to just stay home for a little while.)
And, ironically, it’s the outspoken mostly-white liberal citizens (who apparently are now getting murdered, too) that are going to ‘speak their minds’ (yes, they will ‘disrespect’ those agents, who are over-reaching here, and honestly, deserve to be told ‘no’ and ‘enough is enough’) as is their right under the First Amendment (you can still tell our government to ‘F off’ if you want to).
Ultimately, this nonsense will delay flights, and likely have people unnecessarily detained (and miss their flights). Seems bad for business. Seems bad for nearly everyone. Maybe ‘good’ in the moment for those who live off ‘hate’ for others, but, that does not sustain anyone.
Some will try to draw the false equivalence to the pandemic: ‘but, but.. they did this to us over masks…’ No, not the same, like, at all. How many times, old man…
Recent news reports indicate that hundreds of millions of dollars has been flowing from Minnesota to the Middle East and then to Somalia, often via AMS.
There won’t be CBP officers on flights to North Dakota or Texas.
They know what they are looking for and are going to be at the flights where they think they will find something.
It has been a cold, long winter in Minnesota and it doesn’t look like the thaw is coming anytime soon.
King Trump is the new hitler. Where will the concentration camps be set up? Trump hotels needs to make money off of them
You need an ID to get through security. It’s not hard to present it to authorities. Funny how under the Obama administration when he was deporting over three million, no one protested. The professional protesters and agitators only come out when a Repub is running the country
The police state grows and grows. The United States is not a free country. I hope someday liberty may be restored.
ICE is doing a fantastic job. Seamlessly removing hundreds of thousands of Biden’s illegals.
There is only a problem in sanctuary cities. Rent-a-mobs from thousands of miles away supported by corrupt politicians inciting them cause violence and then try to get the more credulous people (e.g. air mile blog writers) to believe ICE is the problem.
@Tim Dunn — If you want Delta’s MSP operations to be strained by this noise, go for it, keep exaggerating and promoting conspiracy theories. No, better yet, let’s do ICE at all DL jet bridges. That’ll be so ‘welcoming’… better ‘arm them,’ too. Like long-rifles, not mere hand-guns. That’ll do. /s
@Coffee Please — It’s not about ID. Everyone has it already. These secondary searches are just about intimidation and political theater. If it were the other team doing this to Texans, you’d riot.
@DaveS — Yeah, it’s tragic. Didn’t need to be this way. We let this happen. We can undo it, too.
For what this is worth I flew to London from Istanbul last year. My documents were checked 3 times within a space of about 10 feet before boarding the plane. More interestingly, the flight was met by officers of the UK Border Force in London, also checking documents.
This is too much police state for me. These are domestic flights. Most people do not carry a passport on domestic flights, even if they have a passport. I want every one of the Somalians gone, including the crook in the Congress. But not this way.
ICE is starting to be much more like an armed street gang than any respectable law enforcement agency.
The politicians complain about Iran and yet support ICE agents.
ICE murdering someone on a jetway in 3….2…1….
1990
I get that you instinctively respond w/ hate about anything this administration does but the simple fact is that they are finding and continue to find people that have committed illegal activity including major crimes against other people such as murder and sexual assault and worse.
The American people as a whole – and that is true about the vast majority of people worldwide – want to live freely and peacefully. Living in fear of criminals is not peace or freedom.
I don’t really care who does the job but I want criminals off the streets and if there is a legal basis for them to be removed from the country, then they should be.
Minnesota has clearly been influenced for years by illegal activity focused on immigrants of one particular nationality on top of the usual criminals from other parts of the world.
It is precisely because we don’t have borders between states that a threat in one part of the US is a threat to all states and all US residents.
and impeding someone who is armed, law enforcement or not, is just beyond stupid. stupid sometimes results in bad consequences, CBP or not.
Coffee Please, I got a kick out of that, “professional protesters and agitators” line. It’s what Reagan said I was when marching against the Vietnam War. And all of us are still waiting for our checks from Moscow. But there isn’t much money to be made standing up for what our country should be. Maybe I’d do better being a masked thug who drags people off the streets. I guess the millions of us are just dupes for actually believing in the Bill of Rights, and acting on that, no matter what the risk.
For what it is worth they didn’t even ask to see our passports, other than the biometric photo being taken when I arrived at MSP on an international flight.
I have a couple of trips that I need to book out of MSP in the coming weeks; I guess I’ll monitor how this activity actually unfolds before finalizing the plans.
If it’s more like how it’s happening in the streets here, I’ll stay home. If it’s more orderly document check I’ll probably be fine.
@drrichard — As always, you get it, sir. Thank you.
@Doug — Yeah, ICE is basically becoming #47’s personal paramilitary. This doesn’t end well.
@George Romey — Lost me on the second half, but, at least we agree that this is too much ‘police state’ for mere domestic flights.
@Tim Dunn — Holy right-wing propaganda, Batman! This is not about any of that; it’s about a Delta hub that’s gonna be a ghost-town in-part because of this unnecessary escalation. You’re welcome to pretend, as some others are, but, no, none of this is necessary, and airlines, workers, and passengers are gonna be needlessly harmed by this. I wish more corporations would actually stand-up for decency and better sense, here. Apparently, if you’re any indication, they won’t.
keep us posted on those lines and DL boardings, 1990
The media doesn’t show the millions of people that manage to go about their business just fine in the MSP area.
The vast majority of the world is not dumb enough to obstruct traffic and then drop into drive with someone standing right in front of it – law enforcement or now.
as for corporations, I doubt if DL will say anything about it unless it comes down to affecting their operations and then they will make a call.
And CBP even says it will last 3 weeks – this is the dead of winter for TATL traffic.
There will simply be little to no impact at the airport where dumb people can’t park their cars in the middle of the concourse, lunge at law enforcement, and then wonder why they get shot
@IsaacM — Hoping the best for you and yours.
Criminal looking for criminals. . . good idea. Waiting for the day that one of these “agents” is discovered to have a criminal record or better yet, be here illegally. Rather we be woke then the joke that our government is now.
@Tim Dunn — I’m sure Gary and others will post about any incidents in the coming days/weeks. Ideally, things do stay calm, and flights go-on without issue; but, that’s not what this is designed to do; it’s unstated purpose is to create more viral content for that right-wing base, and motivate them to show-up for the midterms, even though #47 is not literally on the ballot. Instead, ironically, it’s gonna motivate the other side and any people with a conscience, because this is simply ‘too much.’ The over-reach, the abuse of power… most people do not want that. This is not going after violent criminals; it’s intimidating regular folks. If and when they experience it first-hand, they’ll quickly realize it’s not ‘fun’ to live in a ‘police state.’ Businesses should know, it’s not good for business, either. You really should know better, Tim.
@sunviking82 — This is not mere law enforcement. The leaks describe some of these new ‘agents’ are literally from J6 pardons, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, neo-Nazi, and white-supremacist groups; modern-day brown-shirts. It is happening here, and they must be reigned in. This is not who we are supposed to be as Americans. This undermines legitimate law enforcement everywhere.
I doubt this is true. This is all based upon one probably fake email posted on an activist subreddit. ICE is not in the habit of informing people & places before thigs occur.
1990, moronic as always, keeps confusing breathless narrative for insight and then becomes indignant when anyone points out that law enforcement sometimes exists for reasons other than his personal political grievances. What makes him so exhausting to read is the constant leap from ordinary policy disagreements to grand historical doom. He cannot just say he dislikes an enforcement tactic. It must become a creeping “police state,” a corporate collapse, a constitutional crisis, and a morality play starring his preferred heroes and villains. It is the rhetorical equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater whenever someone turns the air conditioning up too high. The irony is that all this theatrical panic creates less clarity because it treats voters as emotional spectators rather than rational adults who are capable of weighing tradeoffs.
Tim Dunn, by contrast, talks about security like a normal person. He notes that crimes exist, victims exist, and law enforcement that actually enforces the law is not inherently tyranny. He recognizes that open internal movement within the United States creates incentives for interstate criminal networks, and that ignoring those networks does not magically produce liberty. It simply produces crime. Tim seems willing to admit that public order is a prerequisite for freedom, not its opposite.
So go at it 1990. Keep trying to turn every airport checkpoint into Selma, every officer into a stormtrooper, and every policy question into a test of moral purity. Your tedious, historically illiterate, and profoundly unserious diatribes will continue to be ignored by nearly everyone. Grow up and learn to treat governance as a set of practical problems to be solved rather than as a set of fantasies to be narrated. That is what adulthood in a republic actually looks like.
@Tim Dunn
Millions going about not being impacted doesn’t negate the thousands being impacted.
People, including citizens being snatched at school release, school bus stops, businesses , workplaces etc. Most of them were eventually released without any charges but it’s more than a mild inconvenience. Then there are all those who get stopped, questioned and not actually taken into custody.
Everyone that I know who “looks” non-citizen including my children are carrying documentation with them at all times. Theoretically we don’t owe anyone anything but things are not normal here.
Kudos to Mike H for dropping the truth nuke on the Ruiner of All Travel Blogs ™
I go between Alaska & Panama a lot, and have worked in about 15 countries. Traveled to 82. I’ve had to get a new passport because I filled one up.
You ALL wanted to allow these immigrants from their countries in, well guess what, you are now going to get their customs. And that includes check points.
Today, coming to my office in Bella Vista in Panama City (high rise), I had to pass thru a check-point. Was a simple tap on the window of the car, showed him my ecedula, he nodded, I smiled, I continued on. NO fighting, no arguing, no one got shot. I always carry my “papers” with me to ease the process, as I’ve seen what happens when you are in a foreign country and you get involved with a cop who is going to follow the rules, line by line. And it can get messy, very quickly.
In Minnesota, I’m hearing the “illegal” immigration population is fairly high because their politicians proclaimed they are a “sanctuary” state/city/county, etc. (but hey, lets make more gun laws that we expect everyone to follow 100%).
As someone with multiple foreign work visas / permits, why is it so fuggin hard for people to enter thru a PORT OF ENTRY? EVERY WALL HAS A DOOR. Even in Panama, under Obama, he started a program to try to STOP THE REFUGEES coming thru Panama to register at the US Embassy. They hired like 65 people to help. Apparently other groups told them “NO, don’t do it!”. Yet, in order to enter the US, you have to register your asylum claim. So yeah, there’s MORE to this story – most of these convoys were planning on entering illegally.
Some of you lefties are just pure idiots. You demand gun laws, but then want to ignore immigration laws? You make laws to roast Trumpf, but then your attorney general in NY is exempt from them?
All of this is on you leftists. Your last guy told everyone the border was fine, illegal immigration wasn’t a problem. So now, have your freaking ID OUT when you board – you know, how we did it for 25 years. And Canada STILL requires that when you board a domestic flight (omg, they’re fascists!).
Isaac,
I don’t want law enforcement intruding in my life but as Mike Hunt accurately notes, I tolerate the intrusion of law enforcement because I hate crime even more.
all of this IS resulting in people being removed from society that cannot live peacefully side by side others.
Courts do exist and are working to provide a check on administrative power – as they should.
We will never remove all crime but if levels involving people that the US can deport return to national norms, this will all go away.
and again, like it or not, illegal border crossings are at multi-decade laws. This is part 2 of a strategy that the majority of Americans said was an issue during the last election.
@Mike Hunt, @Coolio, @Tim Dunn — Fellas, by all means, do attack me. I love it.
Also, do keep trying to make Minneapolis this year’s version of the Migrant Caravan… or, the ‘price of eggs,’ …or ‘but her emails,’ …or whatever manufactured outrage you/they can come up with. Sometimes it works; this time, it won’t.
The reality is that #47 has failed on the economy (no, not ‘the market,’ yet… or, Delta’s recently earnings, which, surprising, down for Main, up for Premium, which is telling…). Inflation is persistent, jobs are stagnant, and our country is hated more than ever abroad, by our ALLIES, which hurts with trade (oh, and the illegal, wealth-killing tariffs don’t make it better…)
Unless you can cancel elections (which you cannot, legally), or manipulate each state’s elections (you’ll try), that’s not gonna go well for your ‘team’ this November. So, maybe, instead of bullying our own citizens, you know, the voters, you all should focus on making lives better, not just picking new scapegoats. The pendulum will swing back. Be careful.
@IsaacM — Well said, sir. None of this is right or fair to you (or your family). Decent people still outnumber these crazies. This will not last forever. Please do keep taking good care.
no, the economy is not failing. It is never what everyone wants but when has that ever been the case.
Lots of people are doing well.
and DL’s earnings were impacted by the longest government shutdown. And DL is 4th largest in the Washington area. Others will be even more impacted.
Let elections take care of themselves. We all get one vote. Not everyone thinks the way everyone else does. Surprise, Surprise.
@Tim Dunn — Please, keep telling everyone that the economy is great. Tell them not to believe their lying eyes. Glad to hear you’re still in favor of voting rights for everyone. 291 days to go.
Just a note that you’re confusing customs and border patrol with ICE – they are entirely separate agencies.
The 100/150 mile border rule is not relevant to ICE.
Immigration is only a small portion of CBP’s mission, and their immigration function is (supposed to be) crossing the border. Once someone is here, not (Supposed to be) a CBP problem.
While I’m not going to claim CBP treatment of people is great, most CBP agents have years of experience on the job, and being ex-military means they’ve at least had significant training in the Constitution and legal/illegal orders.
2/3rd of ICE agents have been hired in the past year. They get a whopping 47 days of training, none of which is Constitutional rights / de-escalation / legal orders (or the training is, don’t worry about it, to what you want.)
ICE agents are my new heroes!
They are enforcing the Federal laws enacted by our congress.
I’m glad to learn they are patrolling airports.
Many of the U.S. citizens that dislike ICE had no problem with ICE when we had a Dem President.
Now their hatred of ICE is a side effect of their TDS.
I laugh at these people and their weak brainwashed minds.
But, but, but, “ICE is inhumane and separates families and people that just want to work”….
My response to this jibberish is NO ONE has to experience being deported by ICE if they are respectful of a country’s immigration laws and don’t remain in a country illegally. Show respect for the sovereignty of the nation you are in.
Repulsive
@OnePatriot77
Well said. Not one word from the other side when Obama was shipping them out via ICE. Well over three million. Heck even the drive by media was doing ride alongs with ICE in Chicago. This traveling group of misfits, unemployed, bored retirees, etc reminds me of the carnies and the traveling circus. Many of them have costumes and other props. They have been to MSP before with the George Floyd thing, BLM, Defund the Police, Hamas sympathizers, Tesla bombers, etc. The question is who pays for this traveling circus and the carnies?
It’s amazing how quickly the “Don’t Tread On Me” conservatives cave to ICE agents killing an unarmed mother of three and the draconian tactics they use.
@WileyDog
And Ashli Babbitt got what she deserved, right?
@OnePatriot77, @Coffee Please — #44 deported more people via DHS/ICE than #45 did during their respective first terms; in fact, #44’s administration completed more formal deportations (removals) than any other administration in the last 30 years. But, it’s not the numbers, it’s the method. #44 didn’t do so to cause spectacle or punish political rivals or as a pretext to declare martial law and suspend elections. #44 did it because he was faithfully executing the law, following due process to the best of their abilities, and did so professionally. Like, #44 didn’t do quotas. So, if your goal is to deport undocumented people, then, you should ironically be praising the efficiency, effectiveness, and due process of that administration, not this one. Likewise, @Christopher J Raehl is correct that this is a new level of incompetence and buffoonery. Like, you guys can’t even do fascism well (then again, no one has.)
As for @WileyDog’s comment, he correctly calls out the hypocrisy, yet, I still believe neither Ashli Babbitt nor Renee Good deserved to die.
@1990 — you’re right about everything you’re saying. Congrats.
@1990
44 was removing them but the circus and carnies were no where to be found because Obama was one of them. The circus is doing what they are doing now because Trump is President. You, the Mainstream Media, the carnies, agitators, protesters, firebombers, de facers, smash and grabbers, etc are Demos that hate Trump. Minnesota has horrible leadership from the mayor, the Squad member that resides there and that goofball Governor. I have never been to Minnesota and watching the idiots on tv I see no reason to ever go there.
@Coffee Please – They are largely funded by a coordinated cadre of leaders committed to Marxist, socialist, and communist ideology. For years, this faction has advanced anti-American narratives under the guise of “anti-war” activism, coordinating demonstrations that condemned the U.S. response to 9/11, appropriating “anti-racism” protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, aligning with Antifa street actions, driving antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and mobilizing “working-class Americans” in support of Maduro’s regime in what they describe as resistance to “U.S. imperialism.” They are not a single organization but a group of entities working in tandem. Included among them are The People’s Forum, an openly socialist nonprofit based in NYC and the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit co-founded by a self-professed Marxist Brian Becker. They are funded by various wealthy Marxists such as Neville Roy Singham, who is very closely aligned with the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, is the co-founder of CodePink, also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, who’s leadership and messaging frequently align with far left, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist frameworks. The International Peoples’ Assembly serves as the umbrella and command hub linking communist parties, socialist movements, activist networks, and state-backed media across the globe. (They actually have a website you can look up.) The assembly works in close coordination with Tricontinental, Singham’s organization that serves as an ideological production hub, creating narratives, research, and messaging that travel through aligned media outlets and are executed by street-level activist groups.
Last fall, a network including the Communist Party USA, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and the Struggle for Socialism Party rallied around an “urgent call for a week of coordinated protests” to bolster Maduro. The same network returned to the streets last month with “NO WAR ON VENEZUELA” demonstrations.
Activists across these organizations act as ideological proxies, deploying foreign-friendly narratives during conflicts, sowing division, undercutting U.S. responses, and pressing from within. Most people don’t have a clue as to the extent to which manipulation of public perception is taking place every single day through misinformation campaigns and all kinds of ideological warfare on social media. It’s really dangerous stuff.
@Northern Flyer — Do you have the flu? Because you just projectile-vomited misinformation all up in this place.
In all of these replies, as you read them – each time someone mentions “ICE” or “authorities” (referring to ICE)
Just replace that with “Proud Boys”. Then reevaluate.
Of course the JC’s of the world are damaged, and love this (his words), but I suspect most of you are not, and do not.
At least since this is targeting a Delta hub, it will be a premium experience of being beaten up and thrown in jail for no reason.
@1990 – If you have evidence to present in contravention to my claims, please share it. Dismissing them as “misinformation” proves nothing and only demonstrates that you don’t have any.
@Northern Flyer – Wow. I just spent the last hour researching everything you wrote. Taken together, the facts already outlined describe a network of openly socialist and anti-imperialist organizations that coordinate protests, share messaging, and amplify geopolitical narratives that consistently favor authoritarian states hostile to the United States. The presence of shared funders, shared personnel, and shared ideological framing across these entities indicates that this activity is not spontaneous but strategically organized.
The amazing thing in the context of idiots like 1990 is that these groups do *not* conceal their worldview. They are out there, advertising themselves plain as day. They openly reject capitalism, oppose United States foreign policy, and present regimes like those in China, Cuba, and Venezuela as legitimate alternatives to the Western-led order. Their research institutes, media projects, and educational centers translate that worldview into campaigns that activate sympathetic activists, recruit new adherents, and push unaligned observers toward interpretations that weaken American resolve abroad and polarize American society at home.
The broader public tends to assume protests arise organically from civic sentiment. That assumption makes it easy to overlook the role of these bad actors who are highly ideological, highly coordinated, and aligned with foreign governments that seek to constrain the United States strategically. Recognizing this is not conspiratorial and does not delegitimize dissent. It simply acknowledges that democratic societies are vulnerable to information and influence campaigns that operate through nonprofits, academic spaces, cultural institutions, and street activism.
The danger is not that these organizations exist. The danger is that most citizens have no idea they exist, which allows foreign-aligned narratives to circulate with little scrutiny and shape public discourse in ways that can eventually influence policy outcomes. And the danger is also that ideologues like 1990 will ignore all available evidence because it does not reinforce their hardened, inflexible, and deeply incorrect world views.
“no, the economy is not failing. It is never what everyone wants but when has that ever been the case.” Interesting (to me) fact: in terms of GDP per person, the state of Mississippi leads 4 of the 6 non-US G7 nations. Every other state exceeds the 6.
We have been wrong about legal immigration status for quite a while. Lose your asylum case, just stay, no action taken. I support actions that remove criminal illegal aliens (criminal beyond immigration issues). Add, long-term folk (the Iowa school guy). But, I clearly do not want any LEO going up to someone who looks “wrong” and demand citizenship proof. From appearances, I probably am their least likely target. But, without probable cause, leave us all along. I wish I had the guts to respectfully refuse an ICE ID request (my legal right), but I’d probably cave.
Great News !!! It’s time to crack down on this criminal Somalis ripping off the American taxpayer. Time to sell Minnesota to Canada and let them deal with this pathetic state of fraudsters and illegal aliens.
As long as they harass magas equally, then all is fair. Remember you voted for fascism in the usa.
Fascism in the United States? When Hakeem gets the gavel in a year and basically the legislative side of government comes to a screeching halt for two years, what will the next Demo rallying cry be? Where will the traveling circus and carnies do?
Mike Hunt,
well said and what you said is that foreign actors benefit from warping and distorting the fundamental strengths that made the US great
Americans should be very cautious in assuming that protests are a reflection of what most Americans believe. A woman got killed in MN because she stupidly believed she could threaten the life of an armed LEO and walk away. Her kids will ask for the rest of their lives if she was the one that made the right choice.
@ This Comes to Mind
That’s a question that I’m wrestling with these days. Theoretically I don’t need to show them anything since they don’t have jurisdiction over me and there’s no probable cause other than how I look. But the inconvenience isn’t mild of I’m taken away for a couple of days as they’re doing so I’m probably on the same position as you.
Here’s some further analysis of the legal issues, including the authority of the airport:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/16/ice-plans-immigration-checkpoints-at-domestic-airports/
Note that MSP is *not* within 100 miles of any U.S. border. Note also that MSP is publicly owned and operated. The next meeting of the Metropolitan Air[ports Commission is scheduled for this coming Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 1 p.m. in Room LT-3048A, Terminal 1, MSP Airport.