I’ve seen insurgencies up close — and anti-ICE actions look eerily familiar
As a career FBI official who specialized in countering nefarious networks both at home and abroad, anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis are following the same playbook.
nypost.com
2 Feb 2026 ~~ By James A. Gagliano
Americans remain bitterly divided over the
chaos that’s engulfed Minneapolis as President Donald Trump seeks to deport illegal-immigrant criminals.
Some see the protesters thwarting the enforcement of immigration law as “protecting friends and neighbors” — a form of righteous vigilantism.
Others contend Trump’s efforts are legal and necessary — despite the tragic deaths of two civilians who unlawfully interfered with federal enforcement action.
The tactics and behavior of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are
under deserved scrutiny in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
But what about the
anti-ICE provocateurs, agitators and instigators hell-bent on disrupting and impeding immigration enforcement?
Just
how do they “spontaneously” materialize en masse to scream profanities, blast whistles and block official vehicles?
On Saturday, The Post revealed a piece of that puzzle with leaked data from an
operation calling itself the “Community of Service.”
The group, led by a cadre of dispatchers, uses the secure messaging app Signal and the business-focused scheduling program AirTable to track ICE activity, schedule volunteer patrollers and spy on the license plates of suspected DHS vehicles in one sector of Minneapolis.
Dispatchers and patrollers working in round-the-clock shifts can quickly rouse members to the site of any ICE action with emoji-coded text messages.
And “Community of Service” appears to be just one of many separate anti-ICE cells taking part in these disturbances, all of them covering their electronic tracks and using aliases to shield their identities.
As a career FBI official who specialized in detecting and countering nefarious networks both at home and abroad, it’s all eerily familiar.
When I deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, I saw similar spotter tactics employed by any number of guerilla groups who communicated via handheld radios to initiate IEDs on roadways traveled by American troops.
The organized crime outfits and narco-traffickers I pursued during my 25-year FBI career sought to protect themselves with tactics much like those of “Community of Service,” operating in separate cells so that compromising one wouldn’t expose the rest.
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Former CIA senior operations officer Rick de la Torre told FOX News Digital last week that the Minneapolis protests strongly resemble the insurgencies outlined in official US Army and CIA manuals — “decentralized movements”
embedded among civilians that wield propaganda to “exploit triggering events,” prioritize rapid communications and focus on “persistent surveillance” of their foes.
No wonder
FBI Director Kash Patel announced last week that his agency would be examining anti-ICE encrypted group chats on Signal to determine if users “broke the law” or “incited violence.”
Of course, opponents argue this is overreach.
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Expect more of these state-sanctioned insurgency tactics to be unleashed when the enforcement of America’s immigration laws comes to a sanctuary city near you.
Commentary:
We have entered the Second Civil War and once again it's the Leftist Democrats now ideologically Marxist Socialists.
Jan 6th, 2021 was nothing compared to the Left orchestrating this anti-ICE protest. These folks are attending how-to classes and are being paid to disrupt anything that Trump is doing. They are using whistles which are high pitched and will raise a human's cortisol level which puts them into a state of anxiety.
Biden was wrong when he claimed that Trump and MAGA are our to destroy this country. It's the Democrats and their acceptance of Marxist Socialist Communism. They're doing it now.
Trump should federalize the Minnesota Nat'l Guard, back them up with the 82nd Airborne and start arresting these so called protesters that are being paid for their violence a mayhem.