Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & Violence

Terror sent to the Twin Cities is federal overreach designed to destabilize and provoke confrontation.

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Wednesday January 7, 2026- Loving mother of three, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in Minneapolis MN during an ICE mobilization. Our sincere condolences are with her children, family, and community. Renee appears to be murdered for upsetting the feelings of ICE agents. The shooter has been identified as US Border Patrol agent Jonathan E. Ross.

Scapegoating

In an attempt to justify his authoritarian and unilateral rule, the Trump administration is utilizing the tactic of scapegoating. Somali-Americans are being used as a justification for his cruel authoritarian power grabs. For those who are unaware- Minneapolis is being targeted by our current administration for immigration and fraud enforcement. Barely concealed racist policies are being used to justify the freezing of nationwide childcare funds while also sending 2,000 ICE agents into the Twin Cities. President Trump has ordered this massive influx of ICE agents in what they are referring to as “Operation Metro” while simultaneously freezing federal funding for childcare through Executive Order.

While members of the Trump administration and their families are actively using their political power to enormously increase their own personal wealth, the President and his administration has sought to paint the Somali community in Minnesota as being a vast criminal enterprise that is defrauding the American government with false childcare claims and immigration.

For years President Trump has threated the Somali-American community by targeting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and demanding brutal crackdowns during the 2020 protests in the aftermath of the Police murder of George Floyd. This also fits into a larger pattern of him targeting opposition areas (opposition simply means Democrat voting- folks we are not even talking about armed resistance). In December, he made a number of racist comments during a cabinet meeting. He stated the Somali immigrants should “go back to where they came from” and that the USA would go in the wrong direction if we “keep taking garbage into our country”.

Federal overreach designed to destabilize cities and provoke confrontation.

Minnesota state and Minneapolis city officials both refute the federal government’s assessment of the situation. Officials have called for an end to the ICE operations, and have repeated their month’s long request for ICE to leave their state. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) had initially began a joint investigation to the death of Renee Good, but one day after the killing the FBI announced the BCA would be prevented from doing so and at this point they have no access to the case files or evidence.

Just hours after Good was murdered, agents moved 2.5 miles and descended upon Roosevelt High School as school was letting out. According to school officials, some of the agents were marked as Border Patrol. Details are still coming out but agents can be seen shooting pepper balls and pepper spray at students. Multiple people were tackled and two school staffers were handcuffed. Windows of at least two school vehicles were broken out by agents. As of now, it appears that a DHS commander was being interviewed by a reporter while his agents were assaulting the school. The school district responded immediately by canceling classes for the day and subsequent day, for the safety of the students and staff.

As agents descend upon our cities with widespread immunity and almost non existent training we can expect more of these assaults upon every day people, including minors, and more cold blooded murders. The administration is showing it will spread lies and disinformation in order to cover up their agent’s crimes.

Keeping Score

Currently there is no database for ICE agent related shootings or killings. There is no way to accurately tell how many times they have fired their weapons on civilians. Here are just few examples of extreme ICE violence from the last few months:

• Rest in peace Keith Porter, Jr. Dec. 31, 2025, Northridge CA- An “off duty” ICE agent who lived in the same apartment complex, shot and killed Porter outside of his home. The ICE agent claimed he feared Porter was committing a mass shooting and discharging a gun. This claim is refuted by witnesses and the man’s family.
• Rest in peace Silvario Villegas-Gonzales. Sept. 12, 2025, Chicago IL- Villegas-Gonzales was shot and killed by ICE. It appears that the agents blocked him in with an SUV, then attempted to gain entrance to his vehicle leaning into the car from open windows. Villegas-Gonzales’s car can be seen reversing before an officer out of view fired through the driver’s side, killing him.

• Survivor Marimar Martinez. Oct. 4, 2025, Chicago IL. Martinez was shot five times by ICE. She was working to document the ICE operations and the abuses these agents were committing. Martinez was charged with multiple federal offenses. Immediately following the shooting, the administration framed it as an officer responding with deadly force after being “ambushed”. A judge eventually forced the officers to turn over footage of the incident, which clearly showed Martinez was innocent, subsequently dismissing these charges.
• Survivor RichardLA. Oct. 2025, South Los Angeles, CA. A well known Ticktocker, RichardLA (Carlitos Ricardo Parias) was shot in the arm by an ICE agent while filming their public operation. A Deputy US Marshall was inadvertently shot by this same ICE agent during this attack. In December, a federal Judge dismissed an Assaulting a Federal Agent charge against Parias. He remains in detention facing deportation.

While writing this, ICE shot two more people in Portland OR. Details are scant but the pattern remains the same. “Vehicle used as a weapon” before officers use deadly force. Accusations of criminal connections. It is being reported that the shooting happened in a hospital parking lot. In a nation where schools, hospitals and the courts have traditionally been off limits for immigration enforcement we must demand these places be protected from the current assault on our country by the Trump administration. Access to these institutions is a human right.

ICE is a bipartisan effort, lest we forget.

Last year, the incoming administration supercharged the funding of ICE and prioritized a campaign of fast tracked deportations. They were able to do so because ICE already existed in a legally murky area and has been well funded by both parties. It now appears that Trump is using ICE and the department of Homeland Security as his personal paramilitaries, used to enforce his egotistical agenda including punishing areas of the country that do not support him. He has repeatedly tested using federally activated National Guard troops as well as toying with the idea of sending in the military.

ICE was formed during the post 9-11 authoritarian power grab. It was not presidential lead at the time, but US government passing sweeping domestic legislation broadening law enforcement stated missions while removing constitutionally protected rights to privacy or due process for citizens and non citizens of the USA. Famously, the Patriot Act allowed mass surveillance and “special powers” to officers and prosecutors. These powers were sold as temporary but have only expanded in the years since.

At the end of 2002, George Bush Jr. signed the Homeland Security Act, which directly led to the formation of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) early the next year. The USA already had a Boarder Patrol agency who were tasked with enforcing customs, immigration and visas (including work and tourist), but this new ICE agency was designed to work outside of the traditional constraints of the Boarder Patrol. It has continued to push the limits of legality, while enjoying broad support from every administration. To be clear, this includes both ruling parties the Democrats and Republicans.

The United States of America has been plagued by racist policies enforced by police and paramilitaries since it’s founding. From the genocide of First Nation peoples and the slave trade of African peoples that proceeded its formation, to indentured servitude of new immigrants from Europe, the murder of laborers on strike, share cropping, and mass incarceration, the ruling class of the United States of America has kept true to its early traditions of racial and class superiority.

The immigration “debate” of today has allowed mass crimes against humanity and countless rapes, incarcerations, and murders for profit and suppression of immigrants organizing for the betterment of themselves and the communities they live in. By framing immigrants as criminals, the administration looks to gain the support of the average American. Unfortunately this racist strategy is very successful, given how the working class is divided. A simple scroll down any mainstream news online page is proof of that illness.

In the most recent federal budget, the Trump administration dramatically boosted ICE funding, making the agency better funded than many of the world’s military units and our own Marine Corps. Much of this is being allocated for detention facilities. These facilities, like most US jails and prisons, consistently fail to meet the United Nation’s minimum standards. Very often these institutions generate income for companies owned by political figures or their families. This blatant form of corruption receives almost no media coverage in the US.

By supersizing ICE, the current administration has formed a federally deputized de facto militia able to do the president’s will. One need only to look at which states and cities have experienced ICE surges to note that the administration is targeting his critics.

Every one of the administrations claims about the need to deport millions of people has proven false. The federal agencies are by and large going after hard working people. They have and continue to target lawful immigration court proceedings deporting those who show up for their hearings. Schools, hospitals, factories, job sites, farms and churches are all among the daily targeted locations in this country. Children are being separated from their guardians and being asked to sign “self-deportation” papers. This is a far cry from the masses of murderous drug pushing cartel members the administration used to sell the American people on this idea.

This is this political climate that directly led to the murder of Renee Good. Murdering people over minor infractions has long been a problem with US law enforcement, but her murder hints at a more diabolical policy of killing those who question ICE’s authority.

Instantly and calculatedly since her killing, the administration’s propaganda machine has kicked into high gear demonizing her and leveling blatantly untrue accusations against her. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good’s car moving forward an “act of domestic terrorism” and lauded her officers for “responding quickly” while justifying their “defensive shots.” President Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to claim that the officer had been “dragged for some distance” and that he was surprised the officer survived. The video clearly refutes these lies.

Chickens come home to roost.

It is worth briefly pointing out the idea that the crimes your country’s government perpetuates on other countries will eventually be perpetuated, by those individuals originally sent to do the deed, on the citizens of their own country.

Jonathan Ross has been in law enforcement for ten years. He is a US Military veteran who saw combat in Iraq. He purchased his home using a program designed to help veterans.

When the US declared itself at war with Terror it did so to shift the “rules of war” to remove some of the legal measures meant to safeguard the world against military action, as laid out by the United Nations. What followed has been a continuous Global War on Terror (GWoT) with no end in sight. Millions of people have died as a result of this ongoing war. It has completely restructured the way in which the US military organizes its operations.

Check points and extra judicial killings were widespread throughout the entire Iraq war. The parallels between the shifting rules of engagement in our military and the use of Department of Homeland Security agencies on US soil are extremely concerning. The implication of having former GWoT soldiers staffing the agencies tasked with widespread domestic assaults is staggering. We can only take solace in the large number of veterans who are consistently stand up against the injustices our government is committing. In fact, all veteran services are ill funded and mismanaged. They are employees often cast aside by a cruel war machine. One only has to look at the gutting of the VA by the Trump administration to see this. As always IGY6;

The great thinker and Author Aimé Césaire wrote at great lengths about the conflict between the Colonizer and the Colonized. He stated that in order to colonize a people one group dehumanizes the other often referring to them as animals. In turn, the group that does this makes themselves more animalistic by allowing astonishing brutality that they then justify. He then asserts that this plays out in those societies’ home countries. It is very possible that is exactly what is happening here.

Renee Good is a hero.

She responded to calls for help from the targeted community. By simply showing up and not hiding, she attempted to stand up for people being attacked by an unlawful federal operation. She was murdered for being strong in the face of coward ICE agents. May her death inspire widespread resistance against the current ICE attacks on our country. We must remember all of the victims of this inhumane and unjust government. Our future is in our hands. It is up to us to honor our dead by the way we live.

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