by Maximillian Alvarez | Jan 26, 2026 | baltimore, ICE, Minneapolis, Politics and Movements: US, video
As tens of thousands of Minnesotans launched a massive general strike in Minneapolis, MN, Baltimoreans have joined other cities and towns around the US to rally and march in solidarity with Minnesota and to protest ICE terror and Trump authoritarianism. In collaboration with the Baltimore Beat, TRNN takes you into the heart of recent protests in Baltimore, MD, and speaks directly with residents standing up to ICE. Here’s what they said…“We stand with Minneapolis”: Baltimore marches against ICE (Jan. 23, 2026)
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Speaker 1:
Sistance is are occupied,
Speaker 2:
Resistance is justified. I’m Becky. I’m a lifelong Baltimore resident and I’m out here today because we’ve got a real crisis in this country with ice. We’ve all seen what the goons are doing in Minnesota, and we definitely don’t want them to come here to Baltimore though they’re really actually already here. They’ve been seen at the Towson Mall, they’ve been seen in Waverly, and they’re breaking the law every single day. They’re killing people. Renee good here. They are acting in a completely lawless manner. They have to be stopped. It’s sort of amazing that they still are allowed to do what they’re allowed to do. So we just got to get out here and show our anti-ice sentiment strongly. They cannot do this to Baltimore.
Speaker 3:
My name is Guard Marquee Deba. I am a member of the DC Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. I am here with my fellow sisters and the citizens of Baltimore, Maryland and it’s surrounding communities and cities. Because
by Sharon Zhang | Jan 26, 2026 | Abolish ICE, Alex Pretti, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Minnesota, National Nurses United, News, Unions
The largest nurses’ union in the U.S. has demanded the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a federal agent shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, joining a rapidly growing chorus calling for Congress to do away with the rogue agency. In a statement, National Nurses United (NNU) strongly condemned the killing of Pretti, saying the shooting demonstrates the…
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by Imani Gandy | Jan 25, 2026 | ICE, immigration, Minneapolis, Op-Ed, Third Amendment
Hotels across the country are housing ICE agents as they carry out violent raids, detention operations, and street abductions. Of course people are pushing back. Activists have been calling for boycotts of hotel chains like Marriott and Hilton that cooperate with ICE, arguing that businesses should not be providing material support for an enforcement regime built on mass detention…
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by Julia Conley | Jan 25, 2026 | CBP, DHS, ICE, immigration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News
As hundreds of Minneapolis residents assembled in Whittier Park Saturday evening to demand once again that federal immigration agents leave Minnesota following the second fatal shooting of a legal observer in less than three weeks, one speaker demanded that the gathering must not simply be “another damn vigil.” “This is a turning point,” said Edwin Torres DeSantiago of the Immigrant Defense…
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by Marianne Dhenin | Jan 25, 2026 | Health Care Workers, Hospitals, ICE, immigration, labor, Minneapolis, News, Organizing, Unions
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have created a crisis in Minneapolis hospitals since escalating anti-immigrant operations in the Minnesota city in early December. Health care workers who spoke to Truthout report that the number of agents in hospitals has risen sharply since the beginning of the year, with ailing or injured detainees regularly brought into emergency…
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by Julia Conley | Jan 25, 2026 | DHS, ICE, Minneapolis, News, Trump Administration
In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance…
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