...because they "look" Asians, Africans, Hispanics.... Racial profiling is a nice way of describing it. More accurately, what Noem and Trump are doing is racist persecution of people who don't look "white", and that is OFFICIAL REGIME-APPROVED RACISM.
When the African-American and Hispanic communities stand up, instead of voting like slaves to their white masters?
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‘Unjust, Uncalled For’: U.S. Citizen Sounds The Alarm About Being Arrested By ICE In Minneapolis
Li Zhou
Fri, December 12, 2025
Mubashir, a 20-year-old Somali American citizen, said he was taking his lunch break in Minneapolis when a federal agent abruptly tackled him.
“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen, what is going on?’ He didn’t seem to care,” Mubashir, who declined to share his last name for safety reasons, recalled during a Wednesday press conference alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
Video that officials played at the press event captured two agents shoving Mubashir into a stairwell and handcuffing him. A subsequent clip showed an agent putting Mubashir in a chokehold and pushing him down into the snow before placing him in a vehicle.
Mubashir’s harrowing arrest underscores longstanding concerns local leaders have expressed about the potential for racial profiling as the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surges in the Minneapolis area. The recent operation, which reportedly includes a focus on Somali immigrants in the region, also follows repeated attacks Trump has levied against members of that community in recent weeks.
As Minnesota Public Radio reported, Mubashir was not suspected of any crime.
“What you very clearly saw in that video was Mubashir, an American citizen, someone who has been here nearly his entire life, tackled, handcuffed, taken into custody … for simply walking down the street and looking like he’s Somali,” Frey said during Wednesday’s briefing.
Mubashir, 20, speaks out about his experience getting violently arrested by federal agents. City of Minneapolis
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that an agent confronted Mubashir because he fled from them, something he denied.
“I didn’t even see him first. All I did was turn around. When I seen a black-topped car pull up, I just turned around to go back inside the office,” Mubashir said. “I could seen him behind me just running towards me. He pushes me inside the restaurant. I thought it was a random person assaulting me or kidnapping me.”
Mubashir said the agent didn’t tell him to stop or say that he was with ICE.
“Having reasonable suspicion — as protected under the U.S. Constitution —officers gave chase and caught up with the individual, who violently resisted officers and refused to answer questions,” McLaughlin claimed. “A large crowd of agitators descended and began to threaten the officers. For their safety, they temporarily detained the individual to safely finish asking their questions. Once officers finished their questioning, he was promptly released.”
McLaughlin also suggested that allegations that DHS engages in racial profiling are “categorically FALSE.”
Mubashir says he repeatedly offered the federal agents multiple ways to verify his citizenship, including sharing a photo of his passport and providing his name and date of birth, but they declined to consider them.
Instead, they asked to photograph and scan his face, which he refused to do. They also attempted to take his fingerprints, but were unable to do so because their devices were malfunctioning, he said.
Eventually, the agents drove him to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling.
Upon arrival at the facility, Mubashir says he was denied both water and medical care. The agents put his feet in shackles and detained him before they finally verified his citizenship and released him to his parents, he said.
“What happened to me cannot stay quiet,” Mubashir said. “What happened to me was unjust, uncalled for.”
Mubashir said he spoke out to raise awareness of DHS’s abuses and questioned how agents were treating people when there were no cameras to capture their actions.
A growing number of U.S. citizens have reported being detained by federal agents as the administration has ramped up its crackdown. Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, says she was also arrested Tuesday after she confronted and observed ICE agents apprehending her neighbors. According to an October ProPublica report, immigration agents have held more than 170 U.S. citizens this past year, including multiple who reported being subject to violence during their arrests.
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Kristi Noem Testifies DHS Hasn't Deported Any Veterans. Seconds Later, a Kicked-Out War Hero Calls into the Hearing
Noem was questioned about her department's deportation practices during a tense hearing in Washington, D.C.
Greta Bjornson
Thu, December 11, 2025
Anna Moneymaker/Getty - Kristi Noem testifies during a Dec. 11, 2025 hearing in Washington, D.C.
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Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem was questioned about a Purple Heart veteran deported by ICE during a Dec. 11 hearing
Rep. Seth Magaziner brought the veteran, Sae Joon Park, to the hearing over Zoom after he was deported to Korea earlier this year.
Magaziner accused Noem of not knowing "the difference between the good guys and the bad guys"
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was challenged during a hearing today about her department's controversial deportation practices.
Noem, 54, testified before the House on Thursday, Dec. 11, about national security threats, where she was questioned by a representative about the deportation of military veterans by the Trump administration.
"Madame Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?" Rep. Seth Magaziner, a Democrat from Rhode Island, asked Noem during the hearing.
When she replied, "Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans," Magaziner began to express his respect for military members as a man who had been sitting behind him stood and brought over a tablet featuring a veteran calling into the hearing over video.
"As Americans, we owe everything to those who have served our country in uniform, particularly those who have served in combat. Do you agree with that?" Magaziner asked.
Noem began to say, "Sir, I believe that people that are in the United States that are citizens have legal status here—" before Magaziner interrupted to introduce the video guest.
"Madame Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sae Joon Park," Magaziner said. "He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989."
Magaziner said Park — a Purple Heart recipient — had struggled with PTSD and substance abuse issues after his time in combat, and had been arrested in the '90s for "minor drug offenses." NPR previously reported that Park was charged with possession of a controlled substance and bail jumping while battling an addiction to crack cocaine.
Park has been sober for the last 14 years, the congressman told Noem, before saying, "Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was 7 years old."
Magaziner then asked Noem to join him in "thanking Mr. Park for his service to our country."
She responded by saying she is "grateful for every single person that has served our country and follows our laws, and knows that our laws are important and every one of them needs to be enforced."
When he pressed her about looking into Park's case, Noem said she "absolutely" would, but added, "Our programs need to have integrity, as well."
Magaziner continued with his questioning when he introduced a Navy veteran named Jim Brown who is married to a woman who came to the U.S. from Ireland and has lived in the country for 48 years, but has been in prison for the last four months.
"She did not come here illegally, and she has never committed any crime other than writing two bad checks totaling $80 ten years ago," Magaziner said.
Noem claimed it was not "my prerogative, my latitude or my job to pick and choose which laws in this country get enforced," but Magaziner hit back by claiming she has "broad discretion" as DHS secretary. When asked, she said she would review the case of Brown's wife.
The congressman also introduced a veteran whose father, Narciso Barranco, had been targeted by immigration agents over the summer and punched in the the head. He asked Noem to consider offering parole to Barranco.
Magaziner went on to criticize Noem, telling her, “There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this: You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the bad guys, go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, Marines, children, United States citizens.”
Noem allegedly left the hearing early, according to The Hill and The Washington Post, claiming she had to attend another meeting that had been canceled. Noem’s office told The Hill the secretary found out the meeting had been called off after leaving the witness table.
Noem has come under fire during her tenure at DHS for her attention-grabbing deportation tactics. Earlier this month, she said on X that she had been discussing ramping up travel bans with President Donald Trump.
Noem recommended a "full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."
Her Dec. 1 post came not long after Trump, 79, said his administration planned to "permanently pause" migration from "Third World Countries." He did not identify countries by name or clarify how he would implement the immigration pause.
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