The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1716 - We Infiltrated Private Anti-ICE Groups. This Is What We Found
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: Who are the left-wing radicals obstructing ICE operations?
Today on The Matt Wall Show, who are the left-wing radicals showing up all over the country to obstruct, harass, and assault ICE? Where do they come from? How do they organize? Who's funding them? I sent my producers into their groups and their signal chats.
Chapter 2: How do these anti-ICE groups organize and fund their activities?
To find out the answers, I'll tell you what we discovered. Also, thanks to IVF, a rapidly increasing number of single women are having children in their 40s. Is this a positive development for mankind? And a Chinese dissident says the population of China might be half of what we've been told. In fact, as it turns out, we really don't know the population of any country, including our own.
What does that mean?
Chapter 3: What did the producers discover about the anti-ICE movement?
We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show. As we watch the rampant harassment and obstruction of ICE officers throughout the country, but particularly in Minnesota, it's become obvious that someone or some entity is organizing and funding many of these leftist agitators.
Chapter 4: Is the trend of single women having children in their 40s positive?
That's not to say that we should delude ourselves into thinking that there's no grassroots support whatsoever for these anti-ICE riots. Clearly, millions of Americans... unfortunately support the open borders agenda. They've embraced every tenet of the anti-American ideology that's taught to children in many schools from kindergarten on up. Can't deny that.
They're causing the chaos that we're seeing voluntarily of their own free will.
Chapter 5: What does the Chinese dissident claim about China's population?
Now, at the same time, the scale of these campaigns to obstruct ICE and their effectiveness does not seem to be organic. Every army needs a general, after all, and that's particularly true when the army mostly consists of overweight, dead-eyed women hooked on SSRIs, along with gay men and 68 IQ Somalis. So who is the general of the anti-ICE movement exactly?
Now, it'd be cliche to say, well, it's George Soros.
Chapter 6: Why is the accuracy of population data a significant issue?
But seriously, is it George Soros? And whoever it is, what orders is the general giving? What's the command structure here? Now to answer that question, some of my producers spent the last 48 hours joining so-called ice resistance and ice watch groups via Facebook Signal and other platforms.
Chapter 7: What implications arise from the potential underreporting of populations?
Now in Minnesota, The largest and most visible of these groups is called Defend the 612 or Defend 612, which is a reference, of course, to the area code of Minneapolis. And a prominent thread on Reddit on anti-ICE activism, Defend the 612 is one of the top recommended groups that you're supposed to join if you want to assist in this criminal movement.
Chapter 8: How do societal changes affect family structures and parenting?
Elected Democrats in Minnesota have also encouraged their constituents to join this group, including the president of the Minneapolis City Council. Watch.
I'm Council President Elliott Payne and I'm on Lowry and Central. We just heard that two legal observers were arrested today. We are seeing increased ice activity in the neighborhood. And we're asking all of our community members to show up for each other in this moment.
State Senator Doran Clark here, proud to be at Central Lowry. We need you. This is now what we do. We stand up, we let our neighbors know that we are here, we are saying no, and we need to be visible and out. So if you're wondering what to do, get out, go for walks, make sure you are wearing a whistle. Elliot's got one. I'm going to pick mine up now too. And we're going to do the work.
Go to defend612.com to find out how you can get involved. And stay safe and stay vigilant.
Now the top council members of Minneapolis are going to do the work. And they want you to do the work too by joining Defend the 612. So what is Defend the 612 exactly? If you pull up a flyer for the group, you'll see that they're committed to interfering with law enforcement operations, which they call abductions. To put it another way, they're committed to committing federal crimes.
We'll put one of these flyers up on the screen right now, which we pulled from Facebook. Quote, Every day, neighbors in Minneapolis are stopping and preventing abductions. Join us as we protect each other on our blocks, on our streets, on patrol, at schools, and at local hotels that are housing kidnappers. So they're bragging about criminal obstruction over at Defend 612.
They're also openly talking about harassing ICE agents in their hotels when they're sleeping. And on top of all that, it's not a very exclusive group. Anyone can become a member, as those Minnesota politicians indicated.
And indeed, upon joining Defend 612, my producers were met with a network of signal groups and websites, including a patrol handbook that offers a series of highly detailed instructions. And what's notable about the handbook is that at various points, it explicitly states that members shouldn't violate federal law.
But in other sections, the handbook clearly instructs members to indeed engage in criminal activity. So, for example, there's this line from a section encouraging residents to enroll their friends in the resistance. Quote, if each and every block had a regular schedule of monitors, the abductors would not be able to operate in our city. Well, why might that be?
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