“I got kidnapped by ICE. They came to my neighborhood, they took me, arrested me and detained me for two days. An ICE agent called me a racial slur,” Nasra Ahmed said.
“ICE asked to see my ID and decided it was nice to be racist and say really nasty things to me. They pushed me hard, they used a lot of violence, I got a concussion. I was screaming, I was crying, I was so scared. I’ve never been arrested in my life,” the 23-year old African woman continued as she spoke at a St. Paul, Minnesota press conference describing her assault at the hands of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 14 January 2025.
African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Chairman Omali Yeshitela explains that colonial imperialism—headed by the U.S. and driven by fears of white-lessness and west-lessness—is in its death throes. Colonized people are resisting, fighting back and building economic institutions for black power and self-determination. Propaganda, lobbyists and white hysteria within the system, are responsible for the vicious attacks against the African community in Minnesota. White power faces an existential threat and they know it from the ruling class to the white workers, from the white right to the white left. Here’s a brief timeline in order to illustrate how the modern-day paddy rollers began to attack Africans in the land of lakes area:
- On Nov 29, 2025, Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis begins with more than 2000 federal agents of immigration and border control. Costs taxpayers $18 million per week.
- On Dec 26, 2025, YouTube poster Nick Shirley posts a viral YouTube video promoting false (previously litigated) claims of ongoing fraud in a Somali community.
- On Dec 30, 2025, a Somali-owned daycare is vandalized.
- The Somali community contributes to the economic and civic life of Minneapolis. The majority of them are U.S. citizens. Threats to the community rapidly accelerated,
- The Somali community organizes to train people on ICE response and educate people on broader issues such as affordability.
- On Jan 20, 2026, Aimee Bock, the white woman who was the ringleader of the fraudulent food benefit payments is now portrayed as victim by corporate media.
- On Jan 21, 2026, the real victims continued to be targeted, terrorized, attacked and detained in ongoing raids around the country.
ICE is an extension of the Fugitive Laws that allowed for the capture of runaway African captives. These actions are about colonial terrorism, not immigration. The bounty hunting methodology being employed today, perhaps administered out of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in St. Louis, echoes the slave hunting practices of centuries past, the 7,000 disappeared victims of Chicago’s Homan Square Jail, and the very essence of the U.S. colonial State. African, Indigenous and Mexican people are primary targets of this wave, as always.
Although much of the spotlight is on Minnesota, we must remember that these rabid dogs are running loose throughout the U.S. Any claim of fraud in the African community is bogus.
These masked marauders might as well put a pillowcase over their heads. They are the same thing as the Klan. White settler-colonialists came to the Americas and took everything in sight, killed buffalo, killed Chippewa, Lakotas and other Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans. That is why most of the midwest and particularly upper midwest U.S. has a strong German heritage.
While protests, press conferences and mass rallies are going on in Minnesota, the question is to what end? Protest serves a role in the overall defeat of colonialism, but as Chairman Omali Yeshitela said, protest alone means you support the system to some degree if there’s no actual challenge to the system itself.
The Uhuru Movement is in Minnesota with the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) and Uhuru Solidarity Committee (USM), and these Uhuru Movement institutions have been on the ground and deepening the political understanding of the masses.
The Uhuru Movement is calling for real material support, real reparations to the African communities worldwide through USM, and InPDUM calls for community control of the police among other demands. The movement knows that policy changes within the system is meaningless as long as the African masses remain subjects of abuse.
Join the movement and come to St. Louis, Missouri on April 17-19, 2026 for the African People’s Socialist Party International Plenary. Here we will hear from Chairman Omali Yeshitela as he continues to provide an African Internationalist’s understanding of Minnesota and the world. It’s not Trump; it’s the whole damn system.
This time til it’s won!
One Africa, One Nation!
