University of Minnesota student groups teaming with far-left radicals to lead anti-ICE 'national shutdown'

Several University of Minnesota pupil groups are starring what they are calling a "National Shutdown" successful protestation of national migration enforcement, and they are joined by far-left radicals from crossed the country.

On its Instagram page, the university's Black Student Union made a station directing others to a webpage called nationalshutdown.us, wherever they tin endorse the time of action. The protesters are refusing to spell to enactment and schoolhouse connected Friday, and are besides promising not to shop.

"The lone mode for america to get justness for Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and the countless radical murdered by ICE is for the unopen down to spell national," the Instagram station says. "NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. VOTE NO TO ICE FUNDING."

The site, nationalshutdown.us, points to a antithetic domain, nationalshutdown.org. According to domain records, that tract popped up connected Monday. Information astir who purchased the domain is redacted.

ICE agents basal astatine the country wherever a pistillate was fatally changeable earlier successful the time during an enforcement cognition connected Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Christopher Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The Black Student Union is astatine the apical of the database of endorsers of the time of action, alongside the school's Somali Student Association, Ethiopian Student Association and Liberian Student Association. The Graduate Labor Union astatine the University of Minnesota besides endorsed the event.

The "National Shutdown" is motivated by the shooting deaths of anti-ICE agitators Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Good was changeable earlier this period by an ICE cause portion shadowing national instrumentality enforcement successful her vehicle. Upon a confrontation with instrumentality enforcement, she drove her car forward, successful the absorption of the ICE agent, who opened fire.

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Pretti, who had disrupted instrumentality enforcement connected astatine slightest 1 different juncture earlier his death, tussled with Border Patrol agents earlier helium was changeable dormant past Saturday. He was equipped with a handgun astatine the time.

The Somali Student Association has relentlessly promoted Friday's enactment connected societal media each week.

"This Friday we volition SHUT IT DOWN. Join america successful the streets successful Minneapolis astatine Government Plaza astatine 2 pm! We telephone connected those each crossed the state to articulation us. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA! JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD! JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI!" 1 station said.

A Friday greeting email from organizers of the shutdown demanded ICE's abolishment. 

A man, who appears to beryllium Alex Pretti, was seen successful a caller video kicking and spitting connected a instrumentality enforcement vehicle. (The News Movement)

"Only people’s powerfulness tin unit Trump to backmost down," the connection said. "The politicians successful Washington would similar to chopped backmost country deals to money ICE successful speech for insignificant reforms. But successful overwhelming numbers today, radical crossed the state volition instrumentality to the streets and request the abolition of this instrumentality of terror."

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But groups from crossed the state person besides vowed to articulation the effort.

The Council connected American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated arsenic a panic radical successful Florida and Texas, has endorsed the event, on with Black Lives Matter Detroit and the LA Tenants Union. So has the Palestinian Youth Movement and the ANSWER Coalition, some nationally-known far-left groups.

50501, a well-organized nationwide "rapid response" group, has besides endorsed the action. That group, on with the extremist Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), person posted messages connected societal media astir the event.

"Student groups, religion and assemblage organizations person travel unneurotic to telephone for a shutdown this Friday, not lone successful the Twin Cities but crossed the state to enactment an extremity to ICE panic and request justness for Renee and Alex!" said PSL connected Instagram post, tagging 50501. "We propulsion our afloat value down the telephone and promote each radical of conscience to instrumentality to the streets this Friday!"

Demonstrators protestation extracurricular of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building connected Jan. 9, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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In a abstracted post, PSL Twin Cities bragged that, "students are starring the mode successful taking bold enactment against ICE, CBP and the concern of our communities by the racist deportation machine."

"In fact, the fearfulness tactics person lone pushed the question forward," the station continued. "Hundreds of schools volition clasp locomotion outs connected Friday, January 30 successful effect to the telephone for a time of 'NO BUSINESS AS USUAL' led by Somali and Black pupil organizations successful Minnesota."

The University of Minnesota did not instrumentality a petition for comment.