"Blanche and all the others have been blaming Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. Alternatively, they smear paid agitators. But the federal cowboys who flooded Minnesota streets actually ran headfirst into the state's formidable civil society a network of civically engaged people and organizations that makes this a risky place for the federal government to pick a fight with its own citizens."
"The resistance movement rooted in Minneapolis went mainstream because the Trump administration overplayed its hand, deploying its largest-ever surge of immigration agents as part of a retribution campaign. That outsized intrusion was ostensibly payback for the massive theft of federal welfare dollars by members of a refugee community, through a state bureaucracy overseen by Walz, a Trump nemesis a tidy storyline that revealed vulnerabilities in Minnesota's culture of generosity."
Federal officials expressed surprise at Minneapolis resistance, blaming local leaders or paid agitators. Federal agents' heavy deployment encountered Minnesota's formidable civil society, a network of engaged people and organizations that made confrontation risky for the federal government. Public backlash spread beyond Minnesota, with protest chants in Boston and cultural responses like Bruce Springsteen's song. The administration deployed its largest-ever surge of immigration agents as apparent retribution for alleged welfare fraud by refugee community members, exposing strains in Minnesota's culture of generosity. Racial profiling and excessive force galvanized urgent community action after the 2020 reckoning, and officials underestimated the depth of local resistance.
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