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Minneapolis Activists Used Encrypted Group Chats To Outmaneuver ICE. Now the Feds Want To Prosecute Them.

"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.

Eric Boehm | Coming: From the November 2026 issue


A woman being held on the ground by law enforcement officers | Photo: Whipple Building immigration protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February 2026; Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty
(Photo: Whipple Building immigration protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February 2026; Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty)

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Eric Boehm is a reporter at Reason.

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