ICE agents ate meal at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant - then arrested the staff who worked there - Yahoo News Canada
By: Yahoo (Yahoo News)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers reportedly arrested three staff members from a Mexican restaurant outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday evening, hours after the officers ate lunch at the establishment.
Around 3 p.m. local time, four ICE officers ate at a booth at El Tapatio, a family-owned restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, located approximately 85 miles west of Minneapolis, witnesses told the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Witnesses, who took photos of the officers at the restaurant and videos of the arrest, said the staff appeared "frightened."
Hours later, around 8:30 p.m., bystanders said they saw ICE officers arrest three staff members from the restaurant near Willmar Middle School and a Lutheran church. Witnesses claimed the officers followed the restaurant staff after they closed up for the evening.
Bystanders who witnessed the arrest blew whistles and shouted at the arresting officers, "Would your mama be proud of you right now?" according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
It is unclear who the individuals arrested are or what the reason was for their arrests
The Independent has asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and El Tapatio for comment.
Willmar is a city located in Kandiyohi County in central Minnesota. It has a population of around 21,000, according to the 2020 census. Of the population, around 40 percent are people of color, one-third identifying as Hispanic.
Thousands of federal law enforcement officers from the Department of Homeland Security have been sent to Minnesota to crack down on immigrant communities that the administration has accused of taking advantage of U.S. social services and has committed rampant fraud.
The immigration operation, known as "Operation Metro Surge," has caused chaos in cities as the number of violent interactions between civilians and ICE officers increases. State-wide protests have been ongoing since an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.
But even the heavy presence of federal law enforcement has rattled immigrants living in communities.
Immigration enforcement officers appear to be targeting locations where they believe undocumented immigrants may be working.
Earlier this week, CBS News reported that another Mexican restaurant called El Rodeo, located in the Twin Cities, was forced to close after ICE officers showed up. Although no arrests were made, the incident spooked some staff members enough that they're reportedly too scared to come to work.
In another incident, an employee who legally worked at Pancho's Taqueria and Mexican Cafe, located in Circle Pines, Minnesota, was detained after ICE showed up and waited in the parking lot, according to a GoFundMe. The restaurant later reportedly closed after the incident.
Trolling, taunting, spamming, and off topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group mods. NT members that are known plagiarists, repeat comments, or continue to disrupt/deflect the conversation risk having all of their comments deleted. Please remember to quote the person(s) to whom you are replying to preserve continuity of this seed. Any use of the phrase "Trump Derangement Syndrome" or the TDS acronym in a comment will be deleted. Any use of the term "Brandon", "Traitor Joe", or any variations thereof, when referring to President Biden, will be deleted. Right wing trolls can expect to have their irrelevant questions and comments deleted. Posting debunked lies will be subject to deletion. Use of the terms "leftist" or "lefty" will also be subject to deletion. ©
Tags
Who is online
68 visitors
A very sad state of affairs.
I sure as well wish my son and his family didn't want to continue living in GESTAPOLAND, although I have to agree that he has a position and status that exceeds what he could find available in his home Canadian nation. But what he COULD do and in my opinion SHOULD do is send my grandchildren to great boarding schools in Toronto such as Upper Canada College and Branksome Hall, where they will be safer, and I'm sure they'll get a superior education. Their aunt (my daughter), and grandmother (my ex-wife) are in Toronto and would make sure they would have close family ties and be okay there.
Way to trivialize the Holocaust.
We have very serious problems with the Trumpist regime, but America is not GESTAPOLAND. Not yet, and hopefully never. The American people are getting fed up with the behavior of the Trumpist regime, and we will not put up with their authoritarian activities.
Yes, I would agree if it were not by example my pointing out where such methods can lead to. It would take an even greater efflort on the part of Trump and his sycophants to match the level of The Holocaust than they already mimic, but demanding a person's papers is using a method used by the Gestapo, and pointing out with exaggeration to underline the similarity of one of the METHODS used by ICE that is SIMILAR to the what the GESTAPO did, although not so extreme or with such numbers or regularity, prevents one from pointing out THE DANGERS from exercising that method. I resent being criticized for warning where methods of such similarity used by ICE CAN lead to. And you know fucking well that I am one of the last persons on this site who would trivialize The Holocaust, besides my being surprised as well by who supports you.
My point made to Sean. And, of course, you are permitted to "play down" the fear and desperation caused to and borne by so many people now in America who are apt to be affected by the actions of the ICE agents. I suppose I'll also be criticized for comparing how the American migrants FEEL these days with how the Jews in Germany FELT just before and during WW2.
Most Americans have nothing to fear from I.C.E. Nothing. First of all most are legal, law abiding citizens. Nothing to fear there. Most also are not deranged enough to intentionally put themselves in harms way, ignoring LEO commands and driving their car at LEO’s performing their legal duties. Fear and desperation? Nope, that’s laughable.
Don’t believe everything you read here or on the net.
Most have nothing to fear from murderers either, but that does not mean that the existence of murderers in not a concern.
Trump is abusing ICE. He has more than doubled its size with clearly poorly vetted, poorly trained officers. He has publicly deployed them in US streets rounding up anyone suspected of being illegal (not targeting murderers/rapists/dealers/...).
Having masked officers acting like pricks en masse in the public is going to raise the ire of the public. It will upset communities. It will cause backlash. And it will cause damage and death.
As usual with this buffoon, he does far more damage than good. Not calling that out is a disservice to our nation.
I'm most certainly not playing down anything. I think what is going on with ICE (and a lot of other things coming from Trump) is terrible as you would note if you read my comment carefully.
Were you this threatened when Obama arrested and deported non criminals? Or did it suddenly become an existential crisis when trump did? It seems to be as someone who supports democracy the thing to do is to win elections and not, you defend insurrection in the streets and attacking law enforcement.
It’s fascinating watching progressives grow ever more hysterical about trump simply enforcing long standing federal law just like every other pre Biden president did. I’m old enough to remember Obama attacking the bush administration for not deporting enough illegals. But that was back in the old timey days when democrats weren’t completely owned by Wall Street.
Liberal politicians have normalized violence against federal agents doing their job and then try to demonize them when they end up hurting someone while defending themselves. Whatever happened to peaceful demonstrations?
So I am not to believe that many people are afraid to go to work, afraid to send their kids to school? Okay, if that's not factual then I am wrong. But then is it a joke that there was an article about a Native American who was detained? (And I bet a lot more have been as well.)
Actually, it's fascinating watching reactionaries grow ever more hysterical because American citizens are determined to protect our civil liberties and oppose the un-American/anti-American Trumpist regime reactionaries love so much.
Excepts being shot and killed.
What drives you to lie like this? I recognize that trying to defend Trump is frustrating, but to resort to making shit up is pathetic.
Get serious and stop posting trollish lies.
The four years prior to Trump created this clusterfuck. ICE is just charged with trying to clean up the colossal mess they made. Everything else is largely just deranged window dressing.
Don’t know about you but I sleep like a baby.
Hmm. ICE has a regional office here in my city. Been here for years.
I can't think of a minute where I was scared of being shot and killed by them.
Maybe for a couple of reasons.
1. I am here legally
2. I'm not stupid to try and run over an LEO.
That is naive (or just blindly partisan). Trump should be targeting murderers, rapists, drug-dealers, etc. That, and better securing of the border, is what he campaigned on, and that is what he should be doing.
Instead, he has more than doubled the ICE staff and, clearly, with insufficient training and vetting, has them publicly on the streets en masse. There is no need for this, and he is (as usual) creating problems.
Well, it appears he has been, right? Just a partial list of 20,000 are presented here:
I imagine that it will take considerably more work to put a dent in the estimated 425,000 criminal aliens living here illegally as of late 2024 , and I am left wondering why more of that work hadn't been done previously.
Agreed, isn't that what he has been doing? He has built hundreds more miles of border wall and implemented more electronic surveillance technology which has already eliminated many illegal crossings. The USBP reports border encounters and apprehensions are at historic lows. For eight consecutive months through January 2026, the U.S. Border Patrol reported releasing zero apprehended individuals into the interior of the United States. A sharp contrast from the previous administration.
Well I don't think it is "Instead", but certainly it is "In addition", and I agree that some of it drifts away from the supposed focus and maybe even puts lives in danger. But do you agree that going after "The worst of the worst" is a valid effort, and that such an effort to enforce the law should not be obstructed?
What are you talking about? Going after murderers, rapists, etc. IS the correct thing to do. And we all knew that some of the illegals were such.
So he is not 'right' because that aspect was never challenged. What is challenged is his expanding this to any illegal regardless of circumstances.
Again, Freewill, I have stated that securing the border is what he is supposed to do. That is the good part. The bad part is, yet again, going after all illegals and his massive deployment of poorly vetted ICE agents en masse, in the streets, with poor training.
I think it is "instead" because his focus is different. Instead of doing what he campaigned on (which would be good) he has initiated a massive operation to deport anyone ICE believes is illegal. Instead of a targeted initiative, he has created a wide, highly imperfect net and is doing so in a way that is unnecessarily disrupting communities and raising the ire of citizens.
The same thing you are I think.
Agreed, I was simply pointing that out with a link to some of those results.
My bad. Poorly constructed question on my part, I can see how it might have been misinterpreted. I was not suggesting that Trump is "right", I was simply pointing out that he has been targeting murderers, rapists, drug-dealers, etc. as there is evidence of that, and was simply trying to ask if you agreed. Perhaps I should have written, "Well it appears that he has been targeting murderers, rapists, drug-dealers, etc., do you agree?"
Agreed, I simply pointed out that his efforts to secure the border as promised have had some positive results according to the USBP. Why shouldn't we acknowledge that?
Again, to the extent that he has done this, I very much agree that he needs to remain focused on the promises he campaigned on.
Indeed. In addition to doing what he promised, he has expanded beyond it in a detrimental fashion. Hence my comment, " Well I don't think it is "Instead", but certainly it is "In addition ".
Again, do you agree that going after "The worst of the worst" is a valid effort, and that such an effort to enforce the law should not be obstructed? If, for example, some local authorities are releasing criminal aliens back into the public , rather than coordinating with ICE to detain such criminal aliens while still in those jails, do you feel that is in the best interest of the community?
Not from me. I don't tell Jewish people how to feel about the Holocaust
And, I don't think G2 is downplaying the situation. He did add the caveat "not yet"
[✘]
I certainly did NOT mean you or G2. It should be pretty obvious who I meant.
In the movie 'The American President' the PotUS Andrew Sheppard (Michael Douglas) said "And Monday morning it is." Amyone who saw that movie knows exactly what I mean.
I disagree.
As noted by others here, do you have some valid statistics detailing ICE is not doing just that? Incidents like the Renee Good killing while tragic are uncommon. Do you count the righteous arrests of rapists, killers and drug dealers as hard as the notably much fewer bad ones. Not from what I’ve observed. That wouldn’t push the preferred narrative now would it.
Are you trying to say that he hasn’t done exactly that compared to the last four years? Really?
The need was created by the limp-wristed policies of the previous administration. How quick some forget. Or never noticed in the first place.
Compiled by ChatGPT:
No. Trump securing the border is one of the few things he has done that is good for the nation. Pay attention.
Biden's lax handling of the border did not require more than doubling ICE (ill-trained, poorly vetted) and sending them into the streets en masse, disrupting communities and triggering protests.
I am paying attention. I quoted you directly. Stop playing silly word games.
Not bullshit. Not even close. Biden policy created this mess Trump is trying to deal with right now. Own it.
And then commented, pretending I was claiming Trump has not taken proper action on the border itself.
Again, you create strawman arguments. I have acknowledged Biden's lax handling of the border. That does not in any way justify Trump's actions. Or, just quoting myself:
"Biden's lax handling of the border did not require more than doubling ICE (ill-trained, poorly vetted) and sending them into the streets en masse, disrupting communities and triggering protests."
Trump has poorly trained, poorly vetted ICE agents rounding up anyone they think is illegal. He is clearly not just targeting the bad guys and the manner in which he is operating is unnecessarily disrupting our nation.
More word games. Not sure why even try with you. Suffice it to say that I once again, stand by all my comments here and disagree with the preponderance of yours.
logic and reason ...
a subconscious need to provide comic relief to the opposition or a complete lack of self awareness?
Your projection is staggering.
I understand why you engage in sophistry: there is no defending Trump with honest arguments. Nonetheless, it is a slimy way to operate.
Once again, so far off the mark you ain’t even in the right zip code.
SOSDD
[✘]
I'll take complete lack of self awareness for a $1000, Alex
It continues to amaze me how blind some can be to what Trump is doing yet will freely and confidently exaggerate the flaws and mistakes of Biden.
So do you support Trump going after Greenland?
Do you buy the administration's bullshit that Good ran over her killer?
Do you support more tariffs and Trump's pointless alienation of our allies?
Do you support Trump's masked ICE agents publicly roaming the streets out of control?
You whine endlessly about Biden's lax attention to the border yet apparently all the unnecessary damage Trump is doing to this nation is just fine with you.
maga!
Trump is a POS and these clowns being hired by DHS are not properly trained, vetted, or of the correct mental disposition to be awarded such firepower and authority. The GOP have allowed Trump to ruin much, and still have not the backbone to stand up to the disgrace. Party should be forced out of existence.
I think a lot of these guys are police academy rejects and former service members who received something other than an honorable discharge.
maga!
[✘]
⇑⇑⇑
thanks
an honor and privilege ...
Just curious. Did any of those officers have real bad diarrhea later that evening?
And did they leave a tip?
If they were here illegally, they could have left voluntarily during the holidays, collected 3 grand and got a free ticket home.
That would be much better than a tip anyone would have given them.
Hopefully a really really good tip
most maga are too cheap to tip, or because they're too stupid to calculate one ...
I hope so.
As part of their training, are ICE agents taught to say this?
Zeig mir deine Papiere, du ausländischer Scheißkerl!!!
[deleted][✘]
[✘]
ICE agents in Minnesota are pretty bummed that the need to pack their lunch from here on out, for their own gastrointestinal safety.
"Is that dog diarrhea in my refried beans?"
trump's "proud boys" at ICE can always eat shit if they're hungry ...
I think that's pretty shitty. Sit down, eat a meal, then arrest everyone that just waited you on hand and foot.
Gotta meet their quota for the day. They did it the lazy way.
those ICE maga morons were either didn't want to pay the check or were too stupid to do the math in splitting it ...
[✘]