Jan 25, 2026 1:15 PM

Why Minnesota Can't Do More to Stop ICE

Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn't trigger something like civil war.

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America has never seen a moment in modern history like the federal occupation of Minneapolis. Thousands of masked federal officers with uncertain authority are rampaging through the region, assaulting protesters and innocent people, abusing constitutional safeguards, staking out daycares and schools, snatching people off the streets in unmarked vans based on the color of their skin or their accent, and recklessly, relentlessly provoking violent confrontations with civilians—all against the loud, repeated expressed wishes of local and state officials.

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Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) is a contributing editor at WIRED and a director at The Aspen Institute. He is the author of the No. 1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. He can be reached at garrett.graff@gmail.com. ... Read More

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