Rachel Maddow

This is not what professional immigration law enforcement looks like.

What this looks like is military-style weapons and gear given to masked, unbadged secret police who appear to have learned their tactics by playing video games about real wars and fantasizing about being scary to women.

And if they think by what they're doing, they are attracting people to their cause.

or intimidating people into not turning out to protest against them or into not turning out to watch what they're doing, to record what they're doing.

Well, they are very seriously wrong about that.

I mean, this is also today in Minneapolis.

Local school kids in Minneapolis en masse walking out of their school to tell Trump's federal agents to leave them alone and get out of their town.

Tonight, we're going to talk about what Minnesotans are doing to try to protect their schools, forming human chains around Minnesota public schools at pickup and drop-off.

The Wall Street Journal reporting this weekend on a surge in, quote, volunteers, many of them moms already involved in their schools, using Google Docs to divvy up tasks such as delivering groceries to immigrant families.

Volunteers are on hand at drop-off and pickup at schools with whistles to blow in case ICE agents show up.

The Immigrant Defense Network telling the Washington Post that they have trained about 2,000 people total to be ICE observers in the Twin Cities.

About 2,000 people total, but then the day after ICE killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, they got a huge surge.

They had 354 people show up in one day, the very next day, to be trained to be ICE observers.

354 people showed up in one day.

Here today is Minneapolis' mayor, Jacob Frye, flanked by the state attorney general and other state leaders, talking about their big new lawsuit against the Trump administration.

The mayor saying, quote, Donald Trump should know that as long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we've got.

Here are Democratic members of Congress turning up at the local ICE detention facility, the local ICE jail in Minnesota, demanding to be let in because, as members of Congress, they are allowed by law to inspect any federal facility like that at any time with no notice.

But these members of Congress were nevertheless turned away.

Today, Democracy Forward went to court to force ICE and force the Trump administration to let those members of Congress in because that, in fact, is the law.

And again, if they were hoping that their shambolic and chaotic violence would dissuade Americans from standing up to them, well, they do not understand Americans.