‘Something I Said’ Archives
Damage Done
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE, the curse that keeps on giving. Operation Metro Surge was ostensibly called off, though as of June, hundreds of agents stayed, keeping a lower profile than committing outright assault and cold blooded murder. The damage is still done. On top of lousing up immigrant lives, actually dragging people away from work and worse, ICE cost Minnesotans somewhere around 5,700 hospitality jobs and 4,400 construction jobs from December of last year to this February alone. This is verified by federal data. North Star Policy Action researcher Aaron Rosenthal told The Minnesota Reformer early estimates for the same period were $46 million and $106 million in lost wages across Minneapolis and St. Paul. This is not just about dollars and doesn’t make the first bit of common sense. Nor does Minnesota GOP lawmakers refusing state aid to compensate Minneapolis’ revenue losses. They cited DFL pro-immigrant policies for [...]
Here Comes the Hanging Judge
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes South Minneapolis activists raised pure hell confronting ICE’s jackbooted, might-makes-right assault on civil liberty. Ensuing national attention on Renee Good’s and Alex Pretti’s murders along with the brutalizing of Alberto Mondragon forced the withdrawal of Operation Metro Surge. In April, U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review got slick, doing an end run, appointing Nathan M. Hansen immigration judge at Fort Snelling Immigration Court. President Donald Trump’s ham-handed administration couldn’t defeat resistance one way, so it went another, in accord with the DOJ’s fast tracking deportations across the country. As an attorney, Hansen endorsed the harebrained notion of a Democratic higher-ups pedophilia ring operating out of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor. There were no victims, any evidence, or an actual investigation. He declared property taxes are illegal [...]
ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism
By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Between masked ICE agents and the Klu Klux Klan, any difference is negligible, if at all, cowardly domestic terrorists hiding from sight in broad daylight. Anonymity is a powerful weapon, license to strike, ruthlessly abuse and violently oppress, sans accountability. Strikes mind numbing panic, blood racing fear.Make no mistake, just as Mississippi KKK murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, so ICE did murder Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti. In cold blood. Because, they could get away with it. President Donald Trump has accomplished the unthinkable. Reversing civil rights, throwing around the term “domestic terrorism” while that’s what he’s unleashed on any and all Americans who don’t further his supremacist agenda. As PBS reported back in 2024, “Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers [...]
