Report from the Front Lines In Minneapolis
By Pax Americana
Message and a story, shared with me this morning from an anonymous DHS patriot on the ground in MPLS right now:
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“It is about negative 20 in Minneapolis right now. Negative 31 with windchill.
I was leaving the building we are all holed up in. I think we’ve stacked close to 2,000 people in a building designed for 500.
I ran into a grunt officer who’s been sent here from Miami. He clearly had just got back from an operation. Dude looked absolutely exhausted.
We talk a little shit about how bad the weather sucks, how tired everyone is from the op tempo.
We get outside, I ask him point blank how he feels about risking his life going up against arctic temperatures, criminals, rioters, etc.
He stops, looks at me, and says “doesn’t matter. We do the job.” Then he walks off and jumps in a car to get on ANOTHER target.
No less than 10 seconds later, one of the garage doors where teams are staging at opens, and about 15-25 guys roll out in full kit and hop in cars for a different target set.
Guys are risking it all in -40 temperatures to grab foreign invaders, getting attacked by the very same countrymen they are trying to protect, with an entire city mobilized against them.
They don’t even think of stopping for one second. They don’t eat, they barely sleep, they survive on nicotine and black coffee and the occasional MRE. Not one of the dozens if not hundreds of men I’ve talked to even thinks of quitting.
Everyone, even senior leadership, is out there right now. There’s equivalent of general officers are out there on the ground making arrests and fighting through protestors alongside their guys.
I’ve never seen commitment like this before. These men are genuine heroes. Homeric. They’re putting it all on the line every second of every day. They know that the political winds can shift and that all of the work and sacrifices and dangers could be for nothing. They even know they’ll probably face serious retribution for doing the right thing. But they don’t care, they’re still getting after it.
Please, keep these men (and women) in your prayers. They’re a force of 20,000 going up against 20 million. Do everything you can to support them. Donate to their charities, go fund me pages that stuff. Call in fake ICE locations on the trackers to distract the protestors, tell everyone you know about the good work these guys are doing. If you can help ICE and CBP in any small way, do it.
Thank you and Godspeed!”
