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Here’s who’s really behind the Minneapolis ICE resistance movement


Published Jan. 8, 2026
Updated Jan. 9, 2026, 6:32 a.m. ET


Who was Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent?


Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota, The Post has learned.

Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good was shot dead Wednesday after allegedly trying to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle.

Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the “Trump agenda,” and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records.


Rebecca and Renee Good in an undated photo. Renee was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday.Instagram / @renee.n.good


Nekima Levy Armstrong is an attorney and civil rights activist who organized many of the protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. She has also been active in documenting ICE operations in the city.Nekima Levy Armstrong/Facebook

The controversial group was also behind recent pro-Venezuela protests and “No Kings” demonstrations against the Trump administration throughout the country last year.

 


Renee Nicole Good’s wife screams ‘drive baby, drive’ just seconds before ICE agent shoots her in dramatic footage taken from his phone


In addition to Indivisible Twin Cities — which does not identify its leaders on its website — other protest leaders include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an anti-Israel group whose Minnesota chapter’s executive director Jaylani Hussein has rallied against ICE at protests.

“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, speaking into a megaphone at an anti-ICE demonstration Wednesday.


Video posted to X shows the scene where Renee Good was allegedly shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.X/@maxnesterak


Radical grassroots groups in Minneapolis organized protests and vigils after the death of the 37-year-old activist mom who allegedly tried to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle.AFP via Getty Images


Good, a sometime poet, has been described by leftist sources as a “legal observer” during the residential ICE action where she died.

Good, who moved from Colorado to Minnesota last year, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and a member of “ICE Watch,” a coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in Minneapolis, The Post recently revealed.

Nekima Levy Armstrong, the founder of the Racial Justice Network, has also been a leader of the demonstrations.


PhD student Edwin Torres DeSantiago heads up the Immigrant Defense Network, an umbrella group that works with 90 other nonprofits on immigrants’ rights.dreamerinpolitics/Instagram


The Minnesota attorney and civil rights activist is one of the people helping organize the so-called “legal observers” who show up at raids throughout the city to document the federal agents’ activities, according to social media posts.

She also posts information about vigils and demonstrations on her social media accounts. Armstrong played a prominent role during the protests after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May 2020, according to reports.

When embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he would not be seeking re-election amid a sprawling welfare fraud in the state earlier this week, Armstrong criticized his move as a “retreat.”


Rebecca and Renee Good only recently moved to Minnesota.Instagram/Rebecca Good


Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, speaks at a vigil in Minneapolis for Renee Good, who was shot in her car during an ICE operation Wednesday.REUTERS

“When Democrats respond to bad-faith attacks by retreating, they don’t just lose candidates,” Armstrong said 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.”

Other protest leaders include Edwin Torres DeSantiago, who heads up the Immigrant Defense Network, which describes itself as an umbrella group for more than 90 nonprofits and religious groups working to protect the rights of immigrants.

Born in El Salvador, DeSantiago is the first undocumented immigrant to pursue a doctorate at the University of Minnesota.

Following Good’s death, DeSantiago accused President Trump of sowing “terror and chaos” in Minneapolis.


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