Outlaw: Criminalization of ICE Watch in Minneapolis
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In Outlaw Podcast's first feature on ICHH, Olive talks with people detained and prosecuted for responding to ICE in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. Clem and Ray describe being dragged from their car and taken into ICE detention, and Isavela Lopez and Lucy talk about catching charges and navigating ongoing cases. These conversations offer concrete insight into how federal agencies are responding to anti-ICE activity in the Twin Cities, and the impact that has on people's lives.
To learn more about how the law is used to crush dissent, check out the other episodes of Outlaw, an anti-repression podcast. Follow https://www.instagram.com/outlaw.pod/ on Instagram & @outlawpod.bsky.social Bluesky, & Substack https://outlawpodcast.substack.com/subscribe Get in touch: outlawpod@proton.me
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here. |
| 0:09.4 | And this is It Could Happen here. |
| 0:11.9 | Today, we've got a special episode for you. |
| 0:14.2 | This is a guest episode by Olive, a Minneapolis resident and movement legal worker who hosts the Outlaw podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | So without further ado, here's Olive. |
| 0:25.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:31.5 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:33.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:36.6 | Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm how the law is used to neutralize dissent in the U.S. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm your host, Olive. |
| 0:57.1 | I live in Minneapolis, and if you've read a single headline over the last two months, |
| 1:02.1 | you probably know that we are battling the largest immigration enforcement operation in |
| 1:07.2 | U.S. history. |
| 1:08.9 | Since early December, Minnesota has been occupied by 3,000 agents from immigration |
| 1:14.6 | and customs enforcement, ICE, and customs and border protection, CBP, who have already |
| 1:21.1 | abducted, imprisoned, and deported at least 4,000 people. |
| 1:26.1 | In the face of this devastating federal occupation, |
| 1:30.1 | people are showing up every single day to defend their migrant neighbors in unimaginably beautiful |
| 1:36.1 | ways. And on the other side of this effective resistance is expansive legal repression. |
| 1:44.0 | All of the many ways the state uses the law and its |
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