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Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis

‘We’re fighting for the soul of the country’: how Minnesota residents came together to face ICE

Protesters in Minneapolis on 30 January 2026.
Protesters in Minneapolis on 30 January 2026. Photograph: Adam Gray/AP

Cory never expected he’d spend hours each day driving around after immigration agents, videotaping their moves. The south Minneapolis resident is “not the type of person to do this”, he said.

The dangers of what he’s doing, even after the killings of two observers, largely stay out of his mind when he’s watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – even when he’s gotten hit with pepper spray. In quieter moments, it occurs to him that agents likely know where he lives. Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old whom agents killed while he was filming them, “100% could have been me”, Cory said.

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