Activists Join 1000-Person Group Chat, Leave Home At 5 AM To Follow ICE Around

Some activists came from outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, to devote their days to tailing 🛂Immigration agents around the city, according to a post by the anarchist group CrimethInc.

The anonymous Wednesday article gave a group’s second-person account of leaving a house at 5 a.m. to follow 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a car. The activists joined a call within a 1000-person Signal chat dedicated to local “rapid response,” a term activists coined for anti-ICE networks that monitor the agency’s activities around the country, the post said.

“We came to Minneapolis after the murder of Renee Good because we wanted to understand what was happening in the city and to support the people who were fighting back,” the CrimethInc post said, referencing the 37-year-old whom an ICE agent fatally shot on Jan. 7 when she drove her car towards him.

“Even as guests, volunteers visiting from out of town, we feel like the whole city has our backs,” the post said.