ICE agents surrounded a family’s home with guns drawn—pointed weapons at an unarmed mother and her children—and briefly detained a U.S. citizen teenager without a warrant.
This is not immigration enforcement. This is armed intimidation of a family in their own home. And it’s happening in Minneapolis.
What happened (timeline):
• A man exits his garage with his hands up. ICE agents are already surrounding the house with guns drawn.
• Inside the home, a woman stands with her hands up, terrified, begging agents not to break in because her children are inside.
• Instead of de-escalating, an agent carrying a shield enters the garage with his gun pointed at the unarmed mother and yells, “Who is in the house?”
• She responds: “My two [young] kids and son.”
• With his gun still pointed at her, the agent orders her to step outside and bring her children.
• As the children walk toward the garage, the agent aims his gun toward them. The mother screams, “My kids! My kids are so young!”
• Agents then seize her teenage son — a U.S. citizen — unarmed, wearing shorts and sandals, restraining him while the younger children cry.
• The mother yells, “My son is a citizen!” Agents ignore her and walk away with him.
• Only later, after realizing they cannot arrest a teenager, do they bring him back.
Federal agents do not have authority to surround homes, threaten families at gunpoint, or remove children without a warrant.