ICE Is Pushing Minneapolis Underground
February 18, 2026 at 06:30PMA few weeks ago, after the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, Tom Homan of the Department of Homeland Security arrived in the Twin Cities to announce a winding down of immigration enforcement. But as Gaby Del Valle shows, the city remains under siege—and locals are resisting in every way they can think of:
People are fighting surveillance with surveillance. Garrett Guntly, a tech executive who has lived in Minneapolis for a decade, told me he’s installed a network of more than 20 cameras across the city. “I’ve been out there in negative 15 weather trying to install these things,” he said.
At first, Guntly felt awkward about asking his neighbors if he could set up cameras on their property. The response has been almost universal assent. Their reasoning, he explained, is simple: “The government’s already watching me. Why not my neighbors?” Unlike consumer-grade doorbell cameras, Guntly’s network isn’t connected to the cloud. It’s a network-based internet protocol system. “In layman’s terms, think of it as a CCTV system,” he said. “If the landowner agrees to have a camera on their building facing out onto the street, only then do they have access to the broader camera matrix. It’s a skin-in-the-game approach. If you’re part of the network, you have the network.”
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