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More than a dozen ICE agents broke into the home of a US Citizen, Scott Thao, without a warrant or even explanation.

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New -- I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

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-- Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) Jan 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM

BREAKING -- ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest. "He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation ... [the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."

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-- Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) Jan 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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DHS later told AP that they were looking for two sex offenders who live with Thao. There are no registered sex offenders living at Thao's address nor any particularly close to him according to the Minnesota registry. DHS refused to provide the identities of the two offenders so they are either lying or they are allowing convicted sex offenders to secretly live amongst the people of America.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-01-20 10:10 AM | Reply

DHS later told AP that they were looking for two sex offenders who live with Thao. There are no registered sex offenders living at Thao's address nor any particularly close to him according to the Minnesota registry.

Speaking of sex offenders:

www.washingtonpost.com

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-20 10:16 AM | Reply

This was a completely unprofessional and over-the-top raid with agents mounting suppressors on their assault rifles.

Any decent Agent-in-Charge (AIC) or Site Commander in normal times would have been mortified that his SWAT team came up empty-handed after all the expenditure of manpower and money, and worse, that they detained an innocent person and made him suffer with humiliation and freezing temperatures.

ICE is spreading terror and PTSD throughout the population of Amerikkka.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-20 10:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It will get much wore before Trump is removed from office.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-20 10:32 AM | Reply

It will get much worse

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-20 10:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

>Be VC
>Wife looks like she's 12
>Get vanned

#6 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-20 01:34 PM | Reply

www.youtube.com

#7 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-20 01:36 PM | Reply

This is what idiot righties always claimed the 2A was for...

Now they're all panty wadded because some libruls showed up to ICE kidnapping locations armed.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-20 01:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#8 Yep.

The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution has done absolutely nothing positive for the USA.

Nothing positive whatsoever.

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-20 01:52 PM | Reply

ICE thugs pull guns on police officers 'of color' and demand papers

www.rawstory.com

It's hard to believe the-------------------'s goons are racist.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-20 01:54 PM | Reply

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color
www.rawstory.com

Now this is what I voted for!
--Boaz

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-20 02:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Getting paid. Easy case.

#12 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-20 02:04 PM | Reply

FTA: 'At a press conference on Tuesday, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said "he opposed abolishing ICE" but disagreed with how federal officers were carrying out immigration enforcement.'

That's why we are so jammed up now as a country.

Hammerheads still bleat about "fixing" ICE when this 23-year-old experiment should be scrapped, not "fixed."

"Oh, when the Democrats get back in power, they'll kick out the migrants in a kindler, gentler fashion, the way we used to do it, real quiet-like. We'll keep some for the carwashes, farms, restaurants, and slaughterhouses, see? But for now, leave my cops alone."


#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-20 02:11 PM | Reply

Where's all the ICE defenders?

#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-01-20 02:48 PM | Reply

George Will famously said that it's never the case that only one political party in the US collectively loses their minds. He's spot on about that.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-20 02:55 PM | Reply

- breaking into homes

They are prolly just applying their experience from earlier careers.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-20 03:22 PM | Reply

Any decent Agent-in-Charge (AIC) or Site Commander in normal times would have been mortified that his SWAT team came up empty-handed after all the expenditure of manpower and money, and worse, that they detained an innocent person and made him suffer with humiliation and freezing temperatures.

There are no decent AICs on these raids and the fact that there was no danger or target of interest there is a feature, not a bug. These cosplay p^&&ies just want to kick in doors and play toy soldier without actually risking anything.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-20 03:24 PM | Reply

I wonder if the number of arrests is all they're keeping tabs on. So, the totally tally was +1 from this joke of raid but never was -1 when he was released because *oops* citizen.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-20 03:25 PM | Reply

Republicans are full on Fascists.

They support arresting Americans, they always did.

Republicans are the biggest threat to America.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-20 03:32 PM | Reply

"Twin Cities police chiefs: officers report being targeted while off duty by ICE agents

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley says multiple Twin Cities officers of color have been stopped while off duty by ICE agents who demanded "paperwork" to prove legal status " and he says residents have reported similar stops.

In this clip, Bruley describes one incident he says involved ICE agents boxing in an off-duty officer, drawing guns, and knocking her phone out of her hand when she tried to record."

www.youtube.com

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-20 03:42 PM | Reply

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