Question Everything A Minnesota Dad Takes on ICE
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Jan 31, 2026 Mike Corey, a Minnesota dad, public historian and former data journalist, shares how he documents and organizes local responses to a federal ICE surge. He talks about daily life under heightened enforcement. He explains neighborhood Signal networks, verifying crowdsourced reports, and why he shows up in person to film tense encounters.
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Everyday Life Feels Like A Siege
- ICE's operation has made daily life in Minnesota feel like an ongoing, pervasive emergency affecting even white, affluent families.
- Regular residents are inventing new information systems to track federal agents because official sources are absent or untrustworthy.
Use Signal And Presence To Stay Informed
- Join local Signal groups to get near-real-time alerts about ICE activity and community responses.
- Use presence and visible nonviolent observation to both document events and provide a degree of protection.
Self-Organized Local Networks Scale Fast
- Neighborhoods self-organized rapidly into many local Signal chats performing dispatch, plate checks, and rapid response with no central leadership.
- These grassroots systems scale because they are local, decentralized, and rely on volunteers' initiative.