Report: Radical Left Groups Linked To Soros Back Minneapolis Anti-ICE Movement

Radical left-wing organizations, including one that received millions of dollars from billionaire George Soros, are driving the anti-ICE protest movement in Minnesota, the New York Post reported on Friday.

At the forefront of the demonstrations is Indivisible Twin Cities, a group that presents itself as a volunteer-based grassroots organization. The group has played a central role in protests opposing ICE operations in the state, where Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed Wednesday after allegedly attempting to run over an ICE agent with her vehicle.

Indivisible Twin Cities is affiliated with the Washington, DC-based Indivisible Project, which describes its mission as defeating the “Trump agenda.” Public records show the Indivisible Project received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023.

The organization has also been involved in other high-profile demonstrations, including pro-Venezuela protests and nationwide “No Kings” rallies targeting the Trump administration last year.

Beyond Indivisible Twin Cities — which does not list its leadership on its website — additional protest organizers include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an anti-Israel group. Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter, has been a prominent presence at anti-ICE rallies.

“A young observer killed in the line of observing, we believe in a peaceful manner. They are lying, as you hear today. They already shared lies about what took place,” Hussein said through a megaphone at an anti-ICE protest on Wednesday.

Good, who occasionally wrote poetry, was described by left-wing activists as a “legal observer” during the ICE operation in which she was killed.

After relocating from Colorado to Minnesota last year, Good became deeply involved in anti-ICE activism. She was identified as an “ICE Watch” member — part of a network of activists focused on interfering with ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis — according to a previous Post report.

Another leading figure in the protests is Nekima Levy Armstrong, founder of the Racial Justice Network, who has helped organize demonstrations following Good’s death.

Armstrong, a Minnesota attorney and civil rights activist, has been involved in coordinating so-called “legal observers” who attend ICE operations across the city to record agents’ actions, based on her social media activity.

She has also promoted vigils and protests online and was a prominent organizer during the demonstrations that followed George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May 2020, according to reports.

Earlier this week, after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced he would not seek re-election amid a wide-ranging welfare fraud scandal, Armstrong sharply criticized his decision.

“When Democrats respond to bad-faith attacks by retreating, they don’t just lose candidates,” Armstrong wrote in a Facebook post.

“They legitimize the tactic. They teach voters that propaganda works, that cruelty carries no cost, and that marginalized communities can be used as political weapons without consequence. Whatever the intentions, the cumulative effect is strategic capitulation.”

Additional protest leadership includes Edwin Torres DeSantiago, head of the Immigrant Defense Network, an umbrella organization representing more than 90 nonprofits and religious groups advocating for immigrant rights.

DeSantiago, who was born in El Salvador, is the first undocumented immigrant to pursue a PhD at the University of Minnesota. Following Good’s death, he accused President Trump of spreading “terror and chaos” in Minneapolis.