Here’s How Professional Activists Sabotage ICE Arrests

While the accomplice media go about making the next “Maryland Man” out of the Minneapolis woman fatally shot after allegedly trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, more details are emerging about the radical life and times of Renee Nicole Good. 

As the New York Post reports, the 37-year-old woman was known as an anti-ICE “warrior” in a group called “ICE Watch.” The Post describes the resistance movement as a “loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids” in sanctuary city Minneapolis. 

In fact, ICE Watch and radical groups like it have popped up around the country, emerging during President Donald Trump’s first term and exploding in this first year of a second term laser-focused on cleaning up America’s illegal immigration mess. 

‘A Very Thorough Training’

The Post reports that Good joined the Immigration & Customs Enforcement resistance activists last year through her 6-year-old son’s “woke charter school.” Southside Family Charter School is a liberal indoctrination factory described by its co-founder as “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to the Post. 

Good and her “wife” Rebecca, 40, moved to Minneapolis last year and began getting involved in the local ICE Watch campaign, according to the publication. 

“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends Southside Family, told The Post during a vigil at the site of Wednesday’s fatal shooting.

ICE officers were conducting a targeted operation at the time. Video shows officers instructing the woman to get out of her vehicle, which was moving closer to the agents. At that point, Good’s vehicle backed up before accelerating forward toward an ICE agent standing at the front of the vehicle. He fired his gun at the driver. Good was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the near-miss “an act of domestic terrorism.” She said Good had been “stalking and impeding” the officer’s “lawful operations” all day. 

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” the agency said in a press release. The unnamed officer “used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”

The officer, according to DHS, was injured after being dragged by a vehicle some 50 yards during an enforcement effort last June in Minneapolis. Agents were attempting to bring into custody Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala during a traffic stop. The Mexican national was described as a “serial criminal illegal alien,” a child sex offender “who has been committing violent crimes in the U.S. for nearly 15 years.” When Muñoz-Guatemala attempted to flee, the ICE officer’s arm was inside the vehicle. 

The incident, which occurred in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood, was caught on camera. 

‘Organize Actions’

Muñoz-Guatemala is one of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants groups like ICE Watch have attempted to protect from ICE arrest across the country. 

The New York State Youth Leadership Council (NYSYLC), which bills itself as “the first undocumented youth-led organization” in the Empire State, promotes “Cop and ICE Watch” training on its website. It teaches what anti-ICE activists call the S.A.L.U.T.E method of monitoring activities, an acronym that stands for reporting on the Size and Strength of the enforcement operation, the Activity and Action, the Location, the Uniforms the officers are wearing, the Time and Date, and the Equipment the agents are using. 

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Activists report their findings through phone messaging apps such as Signal, “an integral tool in activism against ICE across the country,” Minnesota Public Radio reported in a story last month as DHS stepped up immigration law enforcement efforts in the Twin Cities. 

“The chats, and the anti-ICE efforts in the city, are decentralized, based on blocks or neighborhoods or even apartment buildings. Many of these neighborhood chats were birthed during the unrest following George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, when police had largely disappeared from many parts of the city, and neighbors organized safety patrols,” MPR’s Jon Collins wrote in a glowing piece tracking ICE Watch rookie Lucia Webb’s second day on duty. In the story, Webb complains that ICE agents pulled her over after she was following them and tracking their activities. Webb insisted that she could follow the officers after she was told she could be arrested. She told the liberal publication that she asked the ICE officers “if they were embarrassed to be kidnapping people like ‘Nazis.’” 

Not surprisingly, Webb is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota against federal immigration authorities, accusing ICE of violating constitutional rights. 

Webb and her radical friends send their reconnaissance information to a tipline, which is used to call protesters to the scene of ICE arrests and “organize actions like a late-night noise demonstration” at a hotel where ICE employees were said to be staying, according to MPR. 

‘Direct Action’

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) runs a similar monitoring program called the Eyes on ICE Text Network. The organization joined a chorus of leftists condemning ICE and the Trump administration for Good’s death. Like most Democrat politicians trying to make political hay out of the incident, the ICIRR’s comments were anything but measured. 

“Today, ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on the streets of Minneapolis. ICE and the MAGA/Trump regime are pulling from the same playbook that they did in Illinois: bring violence to local neighborhoods, lie relentlessly, and kill community members,” the group accused on its social media accounts. 

According to nonprofit tracker InfluenceWatch, the ICIRR raked in more than $80.4 million in revenue in 2023, with more than $77 million in government grants. Yes, the taxpayer is paying for this seething leftist “nonprofit.”  

“The left loves to train people in what they call ‘direct action’, which almost always can be translated as lawbreaking. It’s not a tactic that is good for our country and lawbreaking is not something that nonprofit groups should be encouraging or funding,” said Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, which operates InfluenceWatch. 

The Next George Floyd

Protests are one thing. But anti-ICE activists on numerous occasions have attempted to impede law enforcement operations, physically assaulting officers and ramming them with vehicles. DHS in November reported that there had been nearly 100 vehicle attacks against federal immigration law enforcement agents since Jan. 20, more than doubling the number of vehicular attacks during the same period the previous year. 

Liberals and their partners in the propaganda press have painted Good as a martyr in Trump’s “aggressive” immigration enforcement campaign. They, of course, fail to note that the left’s constant attacks on ICE and Border Patrol agents for enforcing the nation’s immigration laws has spurred an explosion of violence against the federal law enforcement officers. 

“We are seeing the results of the Left’s constant demonization of the men and women of law enforcement. Dangerous criminals – whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens – are turning their vehicles into weapons to attack ICE and CBP,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said last month. 

To the left and its power-hungry leaders, Renee Good is the latest “Maryland Man,” aka illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The accused human trafficker, MS-13 gang member and wife beater was characterized as a poor, hard-working “migrant” by a lying left and corporate media, even as the truth got in the way of that narrative. 

More so, it appears the left is, fittingly, turning Good into the next George Floyd — the felon who had fatal levels of fentanyl in his system when he died in police custody. As “social justice” liberals lifted Floyd up as a martyr of “police brutality,” they went about tearing down cities like Minneapolis in 2020’s “summer of love” insurrection.  It feels like were on the precipice of that disastrous time once again.

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.