When hundreds of students across the country walked out of class last week to protest ICE, the scene felt uncomfortably familiar. The chants, the certainty, and the urgency to declare a side reflected a pattern my generation repeats during nearly every political moment: strong emotion paired with limited understanding. Watching it unfold as a high school student, the issue appeared larger than a single protest. The walkouts exposed an education system that failed to teach students how the government functions — or how federal law enforcement actually operates.
From Georgia to California, students are walking out of class demanding that ICE be “removed” from their communities. In practice, for many of my peers, these walkouts function less as political statements and more as an excuse to miss class. At Lakeside High School in Georgia — where many of the protest videos originated — approximately 1,500 of the school’s roughly 2,200 students participated in an organized walkout protesting ICE. That would suggest that more than half the student body is so politically engaged that they are willing to sacrifice instructional time for a policy cause — an assumption undermined by the fact that fewer than 40% of Americans ages 18-19 vote.
For the small minority of students who genuinely care, the protests offer an opportunity to join a cause they assume is morally righteous. For all participants, however, these walkouts rest on an incomplete — and often incorrect — understanding of what ICE actually does and who holds authority over immigration policy.
The collapse of civic education in K–12 schools has produced widespread confusion about how the federal government functions. Many students believe ICE writes immigration law rather than enforces statutes passed by Congress. Others assume a president can simply suspend laws at will, or that public outrage alone can override the legislative process and reshape federal policy.
What no one has taught my peers is that Congress — not ICE, and not the White House — writes immigration law. Every administration, including President Trump’s, is obligated to enforce the laws Congress passes.
This confusion among students is not a failure of intelligence. It reflects an education system that avoids political controversy at all costs. Teachers are warned not to “take sides,” administrators steer clear of any topic that might provoke backlash, and students grow up believing that discussing the law or governance is dangerous. Instead of learning how the government functions, students learn how to talk around it.
This silence shapes how my generation engages with politics. Only a few miles from my Long Island high school, Generation Z played a decisive role in electing a socialist mayor in America’s most capitalist city. Many of those voters were never taught about the historical consequences of socialism — the collapse of economies, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the human suffering that follows. Those lessons are treated as too political for classrooms. The result is a generation making political choices without understanding the ideas being supported.
Students are not avoiding dialogue because of apathy. They avoid it because schools have trained them to fear disagreement. When issues such as immigration, abortion, or Israel arise, classrooms go quiet — not from a lack of opinion, but from concern over social and academic consequences.
Before becoming a nationally syndicated columnist, I hesitated to speak openly in classrooms. I rewrote comments, withheld arguments, and waited for safer moments to share my views. Now, I voice those perspectives in front of millions of readers, fully aware of the consequences. But even with all the pushback, my openness has not only sharpened my passion for politics but produced an impact far greater than I ever anticipated.
The danger of silence becomes clear during moments like these walkouts. When students protest without understanding what they want to change or how change occurs, it reveals how unprepared they are for civic participation. Informed activism cannot exist without civic knowledge.
Restoring serious civic education remains the only path forward. Students should learn not only which policies exist, but why they exist. They should understand how Congress, the courts, and federal agencies interact. Schools should encourage substantive debate rather than discourage it. Avoiding discomfort leaves students unprepared for the responsibilities of citizenship — and for the world they are about to enter.
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Gregory Lyakhov is a nationally syndicated columnist and podcast host, regularly appearing on national television to discuss education policy, U.S. politics, and public affairs.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Minneapolis City Council refused to renew the liquor licenses for two downtown hotels, the Canopy by Hilton and the Renaissance Hotel at the Depot, after a contentious debate over reports that the hotels may be housing ICE agents. 
The council voted to hold the licenses for another cycle, delaying a final decision until a future meeting after public comment. Earlier this week, city council member Aisha Chughtai argued that automatically renewing the licenses would go against public safety.
“These are two hotels that have contracts with the federal government that allows for housing of federal agents as they are coming in and while they are here during their stay,” she said. 
“Now, let’s talk about why a liquor license renewal is attached to ICE agents staying at a hotel. What we’re seeing happen in real time in hotels that have these types of contracts with the federal government is at night when agents come back from their like being out and about and you know beating people up and separating families and abducting people for fun all day. They drink heavily at the bar and have weapons on them … that is a like real danger to public safety in our community, and so necessitates us having further conversations to try to figure out how we can ensure greater public safety for the residents we serve.” 
During the discussion, council members asked city attorney Quinn O’Reilly to explain the council’s legal obligations regarding liquor license renewals. O’Reilly said the request for renewals was sent to the council for approval because city staff had determined both hotels were in compliance with all liquor licensing laws and regulations, making them eligible for renewal under existing rules. 
Following that explanation, several council members pushed back in favor of immediately renewing the licenses. 
Council member Warren said, “This just smells real discriminatory to me. I booked hotels, and they just asked me when I’m checking in, when I’m checking out, and how can I pay … our downtown business district has suffered enough disenfranchisement through all of the closing of buildings, buildings selling for pennies on the dollar. We don’t have time to be playing around in people’s faces with foolishness.” 
Council member Vetaw echoed Warren’s concerns, adding she did not understand why the council would not go ahead and renew the licenses that met legal requirements. 
Committee chair Aurin Chowdhury, who brought forward the motion, said extensive constituent outreach and concerns about worker and public safety drove the decision. “When there are hotels that are a part of our beloved hospitality community, putting them in danger, putting their workers in danger, I think that accountability is 100% warranted,” Chowdhury said. She added that by not immediately renewing the liquor license, the council is “nation-leading right now.” 
“It’s wild to me that multi-million, billion dollar corporations in hospitality can just like sit aside and not answer for it.”
Another council member warned that it wasn’t just the hotels that would suffer from this damage, but the very constituents the council works to protect. 
“Both hotels are now losing a lot of money … I just want you to remember how much they [hotels] have suffered. And really, it’s their employees because they’re laying people off. So the very people that we try to protect are getting laid off because of the damage and the problems that are befalling these hotels by the protesters.” 
When Chowdhury moved the council to a vote, five council members voted to renew the license, and nine council members did not vote for renewal. 
After the vote, council member Jamal Osman asked to add remarks to the record, defending the protesters. “I do want to thank the people that we’re calling agitators. They’re fighting for our people. They [are] out there in the cold, sniffing a gas, dealing with all kind of stuff. People die and lost their lives because of us. Because of us immigrants. Someone like me, someone like Chavez (another council member) &#8230; These people are our heroes.” 
The council will meet again on February 17th, after a public comment period, to revisit its decision.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fired off a response on Monday, rebuking Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) after he compared United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Nazis and claimed the next &#8220;Anne Frank&#8221; would be a little girl in Minnesota fearing deportation.
The statement was posted by the museum&#8217;s official X account — and while it acknowledged the difficult situation that has been unfolding in Minnesota, it also said that the clearly political motivation behind Walz&#8217;s comparison that suggested American federal agents were no different from the Nazis was a bridge too far.
&#8220;Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges,&#8221; the <a href="https://x.com/HolocaustMuseum/status/2015830385331216482">post read</a>.
Walz sparked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-compares-immigration-agents-to-nazis-says-minnesota-is-home-to-new-anne-frank-story">the backlash</a> during a recent press conference — following a fatal shooting involving Border Patrol agents — where he said, &#8220;We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.&#8221;
Walz, who has previously referred to federal immigration officials as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,&#8221; is not the only Democrat making such comparisons. During a Sunday appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; newly-elected Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said ICE agents were like the communist Stasi — the East German secret police.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), widely considered to be a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, trashed federal law enforcement while in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. Newsom took aim at Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino in particular, saying, &#8220;Greg Bovino is dressed up as if he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb. Secret police … Private army … Masked men.&#8221;
Law enforcement officials and leaders within the Trump administration have pushed back, arguing that such rhetoric has been a driving force behind the exponential increase in assaults and death threats against federal law enforcement officers and their families.

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Paul Allen, the play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota Vikings, said Monday that he&#8217;s taking &#8220;a few days off&#8221; after a comment about &#8220;paid protesters&#8221; in Minnesota on his radio show last week.
&#8220;In conditions like this, do paid protesters get hazard pay? Those are the things that I&#8217;ve been thinking about this morning,&#8221; Allen said during his show on KFAN Friday.
The comments received backlash on social media, prompting an apology from Allen and his absence from the airwaves.
KFAN aired the apology from Allen on Monday during a commercial break ahead of the radio station&#8217;s &#8220;9 to Noon&#8221; show that Allen hosts, per <a href="https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/vikings-announcer-paul-allen-paid-protesters-comment.html">Awful Announcing</a>.
&#8220;I made a comment on-air Friday about protesters and the weather that was insensitive and poorly timed and I’m sorry,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;It was a misguided attempt at humor and while it was never meant with any ill-intent or political affront, I absolutely and wholeheartedly want to apologize to those who genuinely were hurt or offended by it. Nine-to-noon doesn’t formulate political opinions. We don’t bash or praise political discussions or even focus on political issues.&#8221;
Allen claimed his show always tries to focus on sports and strives to offer an escape from more serious issues for their listeners, the outlet added.
&#8220;My best was lacking Friday, and for that I am sorry. I am taking a few days off, wanted to express these thoughts and my sincere apology with you before I do,&#8221; Allen added.
The announcer made the comments about paid protesters while discussing the misconception of how trees can apparently &#8220;explode&#8221; in Minnesota due to frigid temperatures. Allen then went on to ask if the people who have been on the streets in Minnesota protesting ICE were getting hazard pay because of the conditions.
Shortly after the Minnesota Vikings announcer&#8217;s show on Friday, Allen wrote the <a href="https://x.com/PAOnTheMic/status/2015145416463970317">following on X</a>:
&#8220;I have to stop watching all this for a little bit. I&#8217;m so sad this terror is happening all around us here in MN. I just prayed to God&#8217;s will for it to somehow stop and now and started crying. I truly am sorry for all hurting like me through this, and I just want us to be a Love Covenant again. Truly. Let&#8217;s all pray this stops somehow because it&#8217;s awful. And no more cheap one-liners from me.&#8221;
Allen&#8217;s comments were made before the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.
Allen has handled play-by-play duties for the Minnesota Vikings since 2002. The station didn&#8217;t say when Allen would return to his normal hosting duties.

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Former CNN host Don Lemon said on Sunday that he believed the Trump administration would &#8220;go around a judge&#8221; if necessary to prosecute him for disrupting a Minneapolis church service alongside radical protesters.
Speaking to fellow former CNN host Alisyn Camerota — now a special events anchor for Scripps News — Lemon repeatedly professed his innocence, claiming he was only observing the protest as a journalist. Lemon claimed that the Trump administration would prosecute him by any means necessary, even if it meant having to &#8220;retrofit&#8221; laws or circumventing a judge.
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/appeals-court-finds-probable-cause-to-charge-don-lemon-but-rejects-dojs-bid-to-force-arrest-warrant?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Appeals+Court+Finds+Probable+Cause+To+Charge+Don+Lemon%2C+But+Rejects+DOJ%E2%80%99s+Bid+To+Force+Arrest+Warrant">established</a> probable cause to charge former CNN host Don Lemon and four others over the anti-ICE church storming in Minneapolis last weekend. The appeals court, however, declined to force a lower court judge to sign arrest warrants.
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Camerota described Lemon as &#8220;calm,&#8221; &#8220;resolute,&#8221; and &#8220;unapologetic&#8221; — and said that he truly believes his actions were protected under the First Amendment because he was acting solely as a journalist at the time.
Noting that one judge had already denied the Justice Department’s request to charge Lemon for his role in the protest — a protest that has resulted in three arrests thus far — Camerota asked Lemon what he thought might happen in the coming weeks.
“I’m not naive. I think they’re probably going to try again and again as they did with Tish James and Comey and everyone. If one doesn’t work, then they try something else and that fails, and they try something else and then they just don’t give up because they, you know, they want to save face, but I don’t know what’s next,” Lemon said. “I think what’s next is that I have to be in it for the long haul and to, you know, and just to be strong, as always, and keep calm and carry on.”
Lemon went on to say that he fully expected the Trump administration to step outside the law if that was the only way to get him, claiming that they were targeting him specifically because he was the “biggest name” involved.
“If there’s no law to fit, they will try to fit or retrofit something or go around a judge and just do it themselves. And it doesn’t matter and everything that they say pertains to protesters. I was not a protester. It’s very clear about that. If you look at all the evidence, I’m not a protester. And so I think Alisyn — not that I think I know — I was the biggest name. And so if they get a Don Lemon, woohoo, that’s a victory and also I’m the one who put the information out there.”
Lemon joined a large group of anti-ICE protesters who stormed Cities Church in Minneapolis last Sunday during a worship service because one of the church’s pastors is believed to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Three of the anti-ICE agitators who organized the church storming have been arrested by the FBI, including Black Lives Matter activist Nekima Levy Armstrong.

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Joy Behar complained on Tuesday that it was time to &#8220;do something&#8221; about President Donald Trump — and she argued that just getting out in the streets to protest and even voting were not cutting it anymore.
Behar claimed that it was time for Trump to go, saying that Americans were just going to have to &#8220;step up&#8221; and make that happen, although she was largely unclear as to how that would work, logistically speaking.
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&#8220;I think this is the end of it now for [President Trump]. It has to be. And Americans need to step up now. It&#8217;s not enough to go into the streets. It&#8217;s not enough to vote,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I believe that people need to start calling their congressmen and their Senators.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, he has eroded civil rights at this point, he&#8217;s erasing history &#8230; he&#8217;s wrecking the economy, it&#8217;ll be decades before we get back to where we&#8217;re supposed to be, and he&#8217;s alienating us from our friends in NATO,&#8221; Behar claimed, as the cohosts voiced their agreement. &#8220;And all because he&#8217;s not getting his award.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, the shrinks call that a narcissistic injury,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;And that is what will get us into World War III because his ego is involved. And the only thing that Americans can do, including us, I mean, we have a forum here and we speak out.&#8221;
Behar went on to claim that people loved &#8220;The View&#8221; for exactly that reason — and she called on the audience to call their representatives and say, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to do something about this guy, because he&#8217;s leading us into World War III.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin followed Behar, claiming that Trump was only after Greenland because he wanted the rare earth minerals — and that people should take him seriously when he postured about taking the island nation by force.
Behar interrupted then, claiming that she blamed Congress because she believed the president was not well and held them responsible for failing to do something about it. The 25th Amendment was mentioned, but as Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, that would have to come from the president&#8217;s own cabinet.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claims that what’s happening in his city, as anti-ICE protesters and rioters flood the streets following the Renee Good shooting incident, is all about “love.”
“It&#8217;s important to tell the whole country that this is not just about resistance here in Minneapolis, it&#8217;s about love. We are showing something far more powerful and consequential here, which is love,” Frey said on Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
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“We are standing up for one another. You&#8217;ve got neighbors helping neighbors. You&#8217;ve got people uniting and coming together in this beautiful way,” he added. “And obviously we&#8217;ve got these threats out there from the federal government that were literally designed to intimidate Minneapolis residents, to intimidate me. But here&#8217;s the thing, we&#8217;re not going to be intimidated. We&#8217;ve got this beautiful city full of extraordinary people. I have never been prouder to be from Minneapolis.”
Video from the Minneapolis riots shows just how much “love” is being spread.
Footage that appeared online on Saturday shows a man being harassed and assaulted for wearing an American flag hoodie.
One of the protesters then tells the man that if he removes his hoodie, he “won’t get hurt.”
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Anti-Islam influencer Jake Lang, who was in Minneapolis on Saturday to “burn a Koran on the steps of Minneapolis city hall,” was violently attacked and beaten by a mob of anti-ICE rioters.
In multiple videos, blood can be seen on his head and neck as he’s chased and harassed.
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A group of tech engineers were having lunch in Minneapolis when anti-ICE activists confronted them under the misapprehension that they were Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
The activists were blowing whistles and yelling &#8220;get out of our f*cking neighborhood&#8221; and &#8220;if you&#8217;re not with us, you&#8217;re against us.&#8221;
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The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government&#8217;s deportation drive, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
The army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.
President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces if officials in the state do not stop protesters from targeting immigration officials after a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
But if the troops are deployed, it is unclear whether the Trump administration would invoke the Insurrection Act. Even without invoking the act, a president can deploy active-duty forces for certain domestic purposes such as protecting federal property, which Trump cited as a justification for sending Marines to Los Angeles last year.
In addition to the active-duty forces, the Pentagon could also attempt to deploy newly created National Guard rapid-response forces for civil disturbances.
The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to requests from Reuters for comment on the order, which was first reported by ABC News.
&#8220;If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT,&#8221; Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
The soldiers subject to deployment specialize in cold-weather operations and are assigned to two U.S. Army infantry battalions under the 11th Airborne Division, which is based in Alaska, the officials said.
Confrontations between residents and federal officers have become increasingly tense in Minneapolis, Minnesota&#8217;s most-populous city, after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good.
Trump, a Republican, has sent nearly 3,000 federal agents from ICE and Border Patrol to Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul since early last week, as part of a wave of interventions, mostly to cities run by Democratic politicians.
He has said troop deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Memphis and Portland, Oregon, are necessary to fight crime and protect federal property and personnel from protesters. But this month he said he was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, which have faced legal setbacks and challenges.
Local leaders have accused the president of federal overreach and of exaggerating isolated episodes of violence to justify sending in troops.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, against whom the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation, has mobilized the state&#8217;s National Guard to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies, the state Department of Public Safety posted on X on Saturday.
Trump has repeatedly invoked a scandal around the theft of federal funds intended for social-welfare programs in Minnesota as a rationale for sending in immigration agents. The president and administration officials have singled out the state&#8217;s community of Somali immigrants.
The Insurrection Act is a federal law that gives the president the power to deploy the military or federalize National Guard troops inside the U.S. to quell domestic uprisings.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart in Washington and Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue, William Mallard and Matthew Lewis)

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At least 5,000 people have been killed in protests in Iran, including about 500 security personnel, an Iranian official in the region said on Sunday, citing verified figures and accusing &#8220;terrorists and armed rioters&#8221; of killing &#8220;innocent Iranians.&#8221;
Nationwide protests erupted on December 28 over economic hardship and swelled over two weeks into widespread demonstrations calling for the end of clerical rule &#8211; resulting in the deadliest unrest since Iran&#8217;s 1979 Islamic revolution.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene if protesters continued to be killed on the streets or were executed. In a social media post on Friday, he thanked Tehran&#8217;s leaders, saying they had called off scheduled executions of 800 people.
A day later, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a public speech branded Trump a &#8220;criminal&#8221; for the casualties he inflicted on Iran by supporting protesters.
&#8220;We will not drag the country into war, but we will not let domestic or international criminals go unpunished,&#8221; Khamenei said, acknowledging &#8220;several thousand deaths&#8221; that he blamed on &#8220;terrorists and rioters&#8221; linked to the U.S. and Israel.
Iran&#8217;s judiciary indicated that executions may go ahead.
&#8220;A series of actions have been identified as Mohareb, which is among the most severe Islamic punishments,&#8221; Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir told a press conference on Sunday.
Mohareb, an Islamic legal term meaning to wage war against God, is punishable by death under Iranian law.
Trump said in an interview with Politico on Saturday: &#8220;it&#8217;s time to look for new leadership in Iran.&#8221;
U.S.-based rights group HRANA said on Saturday the death toll had reached 3,308, with another 4,382 cases under review. It said it had confirmed more than 24,000 arrests.
The Iranian official said the verified death toll was unlikely to &#8220;increase sharply,&#8221; adding &#8220;Israel and armed groups abroad&#8221; had supported and equipped those taking to the streets.
The clerical establishment regularly blames unrest on foreign enemies, including the U.S. and Israel, an arch foe of the Islamic Republic which launched military strikes in June.
The violent crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests, according to residents and state media.
One resident in Tehran said he had witnessed riot police directly shooting at a group of protesters, who were mostly young men and women. Videos circulating on social media, some of which have been verified by Reuters, have shown security forces violently cracking down on demonstrations across the country.
The Iranian official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, also said some of the heaviest clashes and highest number of deaths were in the Iranian Kurdish areas in the country&#8217;s northwest.
Kurdish separatists have been active there and flare-ups have been among the most violent in past periods of unrest.
Three sources told Reuters on January 14 that armed Kurdish separatist groups sought to cross the border into Iran from Iraq in a sign of foreign entities potentially seeking to take advantage of instability.
&#8220;I am against this regime and have taken part in protests, but I witnessed some armed individuals disguised as protesters shooting at civilians. They were not ordinary protesters, they carried guns and knives,&#8221; an Iranian in a northwestern town told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The Norway-based Iranian Kurdish rights group Hengaw has said some of the heaviest clashes during protests that erupted in late December were in Kurdish areas in the northwest.
Getting information out of Iran has been complicated by internet blackouts, which were partly lifted for a few hours early on Saturday. But internet monitoring group NetBlocks said the blackout seemed to have later been reimposed.
Faizan Ali, a 40-year-old medical doctor from Lahore, said he had to cut short his trip to Iran to visit his Iranian wife in the central city of Isfahan as &#8220;there was no internet or communication with my family in Pakistan.&#8221;
&#8220;I saw a violent mob burning buildings, banks and cars. I also witnessed an individual stab a passer-by,&#8221; he told Reuters upon his arrival back in Lahore.
(Additional reporting by Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore,Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Alexander Smith)

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While the Iranian government is shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands, where is the hue and cry among our college protesting class? Where is it? Why have they gone so silent?
According to reports coming out of Iran, thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of Iranians are being killed in the streets by the Iranian regime. The Iranian people are now rising up against the Ayatollah-led regime, their mullah rulers, who have been leading them down a primrose path to both economic and despotic hell for the past 47 years.
Hundreds of thousands of people, apparently overnight, were still in the streets in Iran, braving actual bullets.
For all the people who pat themselves on the back for their bravery online, what actual bravery looks like is walking into the streets, arm in arm, standing up against people with machine guns who are firing live ammunition at you in order to achieve freedom for your people.
A bombshell new <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/">report</a> from CBS News suggests the Iranian government has murdered somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 protesters since the ongoing national revolt began.
Meanwhile, there are apparently zero protests on college campuses in favor of the protesters. I have yet to see a major movement of congressional Democrats getting together in solidarity with the Iranian people.
The media coverage until the last couple of days has been scant on what is now a weeks-long, ongoing protest revolt against the regime, which is happening because the Iranian regime is absolutely weak in economic terms. The rial is now trading at a fraction of a penny.
The Iranian economy is running at low ebb because of the maximum sanctions that were placed against the regime by the Trump administration. It is also because of the overwhelming military successes that Israel has experienced since October 7 in cutting off the terror arms of the Iranian regime and of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in places ranging from Iran to Syria to Yemen to Iran itself. That obviously includes the 12-day war that happened last year, in which Iran proved to be a military paper tiger, unable to prevent the Israelis from flying sorties in broad daylight over Tehran and culminating in the American strike against Fordow, the nuclear facility in Iran.
There&#8217;s also a lack of water and power in Iran.
The mullahs, who promised an Islamic utopia, simply delivered an Islamist hell, and the people of Iran are sick of it. They are tired of it.
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This is not the first protest movement in Iran. In 2009, there was a major protest movement that Barack Obama not only ignored, but undercut by negotiating with the Iranian regime, calling them “moderates,” and then trying to bring them into the fold of nations, which, as it turns out, was a horrifyingly bad idea that allowed them to strengthen themselves at the expense of America&#8217;s actual allies in the region.
Then, of course, he signed the 2015 JCPOA, which was designed to allow Iran and the mullahs a pathway to a nuclear bomb. The Trump administration came in, reversed the polarity, and put the pressure on the Iranian regime. Then Joe Biden came in, took his foot off the pedal, and started to talk again about a revived JCPOA.
By October of 2023, the Iranians were helping to spur the October 7 terror attacks in a seven-front terror war against Israel that ended, ironically, with Iran&#8217;s forces being absolutely devastated.
So now people are out in the streets, literally by the millions. And Iran is doing what Iran does best —they turn off the internet for the last several days, no information getting in, no information getting out, and they shoot people in the streets.
At this point, we are talking about a minimum of at least 3000 people who have been murdered on the streets of Iran. The number is probably significantly higher. We have seen pictures emerging of stacks of body bags. We&#8217;ve seen videos emerging of Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces and members of Iranian militias mowing people down.
President Trump is taking a strong position, telling Iranians to keep protesting, take over the institutions, save the names of the killers and abusers.
If the Iranian regime were deposed, that would be a sea change in geopolitics. Iran is a large-scale supplier of oil to China and a large-scale supplier of Shahid drones to Russia. Iran is the chief sponsor of global terrorism on planet Earth, having spread its terror tentacles not only throughout the Middle East, but also into Europe and into Latin America.
If the Iranian regime were to change, that would weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon. You might see an actual decent government with the capacity to destroy Hezbollah. You might see the possibility of an actual, broad Abraham Accord-like agreement between Iran and Israel.
I&#8217;m going to say it for the 100th time: This does not mean that the United States ought to put hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in Iran to topple the regime. No one is talking about that. What we are talking about is a risk-reward calculation, whereby targeted American action could have a disproportionate effect on the future not only of the Middle East, but on geopolitics as a whole.
Imagine if the Houthis stopped harassing shipping in the Red Sea anymore because their sponsor state, Iran, was gone. Imagine if the Chinese had to be a little bit more careful about their playing around with anti-American forces in the Middle East, because the mullahs weren&#8217;t there to help them out. Imagine if the Russians did not have a gigantic supply of weaponry coming in from Iran.
A lot of people on the horseshoe theory Right are mirroring Ben Rhodes’ and Barack Obama’s foreign policy; many of them are simply dismissing a lot of the numbers coming out of Iran. You might notice that these are the same people perfectly willing to trust Hamas&#8217;s numbers in the Gaza Strip.
The same people who, in specious fashion, were labeling Israel&#8217;s targeted action in the Gaza Strip a genocide, have now gone extraordinarily silent when it comes to Iran literally mowing down protesters in the streets. That’s pretty incredible stuff from our human rights-loving friends.
The silence of the Left in the face of the brutality of the Iranian regime toward an innocent citizenry is staggeringly hypocritical and vile.

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Just hours after Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent she attempted to hit with her car, protesters began descending on Minneapolis.
By midnight on the day of Good’s death, protesters had blocked off both sides of the street with torn-off doors, trash cans, wooden crates, and signs adorned with quotes from Assata Shakur, a woman the FBI put on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” <a href="https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181914429/fbi-most-wanted-terrorists-list-who-is-assata-shakur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list</a>.
For five days in sub-freezing temperatures, they marched and chanted that Good didn’t deserve to die. Many said ICE agents deserved to die.
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Small groups of people were present just after 1am at either end of the street. <a href="https://t.co/aY6rxrhEvO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/aY6rxrhEvO</a>
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll/status/2009163367332851988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
The shooting occurred at 34th Street and Portland Avenue, where roughly 30 candles were set in the snow to mark the vigil site.
The Daily Wire spoke with mostly Minneapolis residents that night, but by Thursday morning, the crowds began to include people from across the country. Just before 7:00 a.m., about 2,000 protesters lined up at the St. Paul ICE Field Office. While the crowd from the previous night seemed solemn, this crowd carried intense anger.
“I started yelling at them, you know, just calling them names and the basic stuff.”
What did the basic stuff mean? The protesters answered soon enough.
“Go kill yourself,” one shouted.
“You f*cking traitorous scum,” yelled another.
From 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., protesters hurled insults at ICE officers as their vehicles arrived at the facility. When demonstrators blocked the roadway, officers responded by sending tear gas and pepper balls at the crowd’s feet.
By 9:00 a.m., the crowd dispersed from the ICE field office. On the way out, a woman wearing an AFL-CIO vest quipped, “We hit our goal time.”
One woman told The Daily Wire that it felt wrong for her to be at Good’s memorial because she’s a white woman with a lot of privilege. “I feel like white tears are not always helpful or necessary,” she said.
At one point, The Daily Wire team swung by a local McDonald’s. On the front door was a sign that read “No ICE Access In This Business.”
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A Minneapolis McDonald&#8217;s is REFUSING to let ICE agents enter. <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@breccastoll</a>: &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t help but notice there&#8217;s a sign that says, &#8216;No ICE,&#8217; on the door.&#8221;
Security Guard: &#8220;This is private property, so you can&#8217;t just break the law because you&#8217;re a federal agent&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sTNdM55mcA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sTNdM55mcA</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/2009353171337134366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
After The Daily Wire contacted McDonald’s corporate office, the company noted that it was “in touch with the owner/operator of this franchised restaurant and have confirmed that this flyer was posted without approval and has since been taken down.”
Later that evening, The Daily Wire verified that the sign was gone.
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NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/McDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@McDonalds</a> says the franchise has taken down the anti-ICE flyer.
&#8220;We&#8217;re in touch with the owner/operator of this franchised restaurant and have confirmed that this flyer was posted without approval and has since been taken down.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@realdailywire</a> got ICE back into McDonalds <a href="https://t.co/qzjfXvt186" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/qzjfXvt186</a>
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll/status/2009410831126024512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
That night marked the first of two major evening protests. Despite sleet and snow, an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people gathered to protest ICE and mourn Good. Protesters sprayed graffiti on buildings and disrupted traffic, prompting several nearby businesses to close their doors.
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NOW: largest protest I’ve seen today. Estimating 4000-5000 people <a href="https://t.co/gTUysXsLK0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/gTUysXsLK0</a>
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll/status/2009450086666010775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
While Thursday was the largest protest up to that point, Friday night would greatly surpass it.
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“CLOSED FOR STAFF SAFETY”
This restaurant had to close its doors on the busiest night of the week.
Businesses are being affected. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@realDailyWire</a> <a href="https://t.co/AmhfHqOmXJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AmhfHqOmXJ</a>
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll/status/2009816432121446671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
Friday followed the same pattern: morning protests, visit to the shooting site, and plans for nighttime demonstrations. Protesters claimed they had &#8220;received word” that ICE agents were staying at the Canopy Hotel. By 7:00 p.m., streets were blocked, and demonstrators swarmed the area with whistles, musical instruments, and noise-making devices intended to disrupt the officers’ stay.
One sign read, “We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.” The sign appeared to reference the 2020 Minneapolis protests following George Floyd’s death, when large parts of the city were damaged.
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Protestors have gathered outside the Canopy Hilton Hotel where they think ICE is staying and are banging instruments.
One sign says “WE’VE DONE IT BEFORE AND WE’LL DO IT AGAIN.” <a href="https://t.co/WJMlJ85mKX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/WJMlJ85mKX</a>
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/breccastoll/status/2009792842802352425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
During Friday’s protest, police and sheriff patrol cars were swarmed, and streets were blocked for roughly seven hours, from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. The night ended with multiple arrests as protesters were handcuffed and taken into custody.
On Saturday morning, The Daily Wire made one last stop. The team returned to the ICE Field Office where Representative Ilhan Omar spoke to protesters. “We’re going to show all of them the door out,” she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omar-ripped-inciting-violence-after-mn-ice-shooting-make-sure-people-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to the crowd. “We are going to make sure that these people pay for what they have done to us.”

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There’s still chaos surrounding what&#8217;s going on with ICE.
The anger is palpable in places like Minneapolis. People don&#8217;t believe they&#8217;re breaking the law even when they&#8217;re breaking the law. But if you get in the way of ICE officials who are attempting to pursue a federal operation, you are violating federal law, and you will get yourself into hot water.
 According to The Washington Post:
<blockquote>The fatal shooting of Renee Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a residential street here, has brought new attention to these activities. &#8230; Federal court rulings say citizens can observe and record police activity in public areas as part of their First Amendment rights, and many of the observers are doing nothing more than that. They say that they believe authorities are less likely to use force if someone is recording and that they are providing a public service by letting their communities know when federal immigration officers are nearby.
But as officers and agents employ aggressive tactics, some activists have blown whistles to warn community members of approaching law enforcement, tried to follow immigration enforcement vehicles or used their own cars to block the roadways — entering murkier legal territory. Some legal experts said such behavior could in theory justify obstruction-of-justice charges, but they added that any such prosecution would be unusual.</blockquote>
I interviewed Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for Homeland Security, who noted that the department’s “top priority are these gang members who are murderers, rapists, child pedophiles.”
“I see the reports every single day,” she continued. “And what we&#8217;ve seen is just flabbergasting as far as the number of criminals who have been allowed to walk around with impunity in this country. There&#8217;s been over a thousand known or suspected terrorists that we&#8217;ve arrested in the last year, 3,500 members of Tren de Aragua that we&#8217;ve arrested and there&#8217;s plenty more who are out there. And that&#8217;s why we have been flooding the zone to get these individuals out of our country.”
I asked if ICE needed to be as visible as they are while pursuing these operations.
“I think we should take a step back and talk about what a sanctuary city means when we&#8217;re talking about Minneapolis, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,” she replied. “What exactly does that mean? It means that these sanctuary city politicians are harboring these criminal illegal aliens, but it also means that our law enforcement is not permitted to work with them  &#8230; ICE law enforcement is not allowed into the jails.”
“So if Chicago picks up a criminal illegal alien — maybe they picked up somebody who was convicted of rape and that person is in their jail — they&#8217;re not allowed to release them to ICE or coordinate their eventual release to ICE for eventual deportation,” she continued. “What happens is that person will serve a certain amount of time, then they&#8217;ll be released back onto the street. So the reason that we have such a large law enforcement presence is because we can&#8217;t go into those jails to target those criminals, and so we have to really sweep the city, and target them using intelligence, using our case analysis, and make sure that we&#8217;re going after these individuals.”
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“Immigration enforcement is polarizing, particularly to those on the Left, but the truth of the matter is, this was the mandate that President Trump was given when he was elected into office,” she asserted. “The American people saw that crime was surging. If you look at Minneapolis alone, since Governor Walz became governor, homicides in Minneapolis have increased 50%. But I think when you look at this particular incident, of course, any loss of life is tragic. And we pray for the deceased and her family. But what happened leading up to this, those facts are incredibly important.”
“At 10:25 a.m. Central time on Wednesday, January 7, what happened was this individual had been impeding and blocking in our eyes, law enforcement officers,” she explained. “She had been doing that throughout the day, obstructing lawful operations, which is a felony. At one point, our ICE law enforcement officers approached her vehicle and said to get out of the car, she was going to be under arrest, and they commanded her to stop obstructing operations. That&#8217;s when she would not obey those lawful commands. And that&#8217;s when we see in the video, the law enforcement officer is in front of her. She hits the gas, and he was in fear of his own life and he was in fear for the law enforcement who were around him. She weaponized her vehicle she used as a deadly weapon on an officer. He responded as his training instructs him to do. And unfortunately, there was a loss of life here. But our officer conducted himself in the way he should have. And he did save his own life.”
I asked her what her reaction was to major Democrats comparing ICE to the Gestapo, suggesting that we are living now under the predations of a police state, and vowing that they were going to try to impede ICE operations themselves.
“They&#8217;re clearly legally illiterate, because ICE, CBP, and other DHS law enforcement are conducting these operations with the law behind them,” she answered. “If people don&#8217;t like ICE enforcing the rule of law — which is what our men and women are doing every single day — these politicians should change the law. They can lobby Congress to change the law.”
“But continuing to demonize and vilify our law enforcement, you&#8217;re going to see more incidents like this because people who are either brainwashed or lunatics are going to take matters into their own hands,” she predicted. “We&#8217;ve already seen these vehicles be routinely and perpetually weaponized against our law enforcement. We have a 1,000% increase in assaults against law enforcement. Just last week alone, we had ten of these vehicle rammings. These vehicles are deadly weapons. And one of our law enforcement officers could easily end up killed if we don&#8217;t see a stop to this.”
“As far as the political nature of this for the Democrats, Minneapolis has been a flashpoint because of the massive amount of fraud that we&#8217;ve seen and that Homeland Security Investigations are investigating,” McLaughlin said. “And so I think that there is a part of this where they&#8217;re trying to circle the wagons and really use this as a smokescreen so people stop talking about the fraud.”
Something left unnoticed is that the number of deportations from red states often outnumbers the number of deportations from blue states. The difference is that the blue state governors and sanctuary city mayors are trying to obstruct operations in these blue areas.
In red states, as they cooperate with ICE, these operations tend to go off pretty easily without a hitch. And then the deportations are actually pretty sizable. So it is not as though the Trump administration is only targeting blue areas of blue states. A huge number of deportations are happening in red states and red areas now.
But the rhetoric of the Left ignores that. They are intent on using whatever they can to target the Trump administration, and if it means vilifying the men and women of law enforcement, they are only too happy to do so.

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