US immigration thugs escalate terror campaign, as sentiment for Minneapolis general strike grows among workersOn Sunday night it was revealed that a man living in Minneapolis who was kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs on January 6 died on January 14 at the Camp East Montana concentration camp in El Paso, Texas. Multiple outlets reported that Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, from Nicaragua, was found unconscious and unresponsive at the facility last week.
Diaz is at least the third person to die at the sprawling tent camp in south Texas in the last month and a half. On January 3, ICE announced that Geraldo Lunas Campos died at the same facility after “staff observed him in distress.” This purposefully vague statement was aimed at concealing the fact that Lunas Campos died after he was attacked by guards at the facility.
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner was likely to classify Lunas Campos’ death as a “homicide,” with the preliminary cause of death being “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.” That is, Lunas Campos did not receive enough oxygen because severe pressure was being applied to his neck and chest.
Santos Jesus Flores, a witness to the incident, told the paper he saw at least five guards fighting with Lunas Campos after the latter refused to enter a segregated cell without his medication. Flores told the Post he saw guards choking the father of three and that he heard Lunas Campos scream, “No puedo respirar,” Spanish for “I can’t breathe,” before falling unconscious.
“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” Flores said.
In the first 19 days of 2026, at least six people have already died while in the custody of ICE. These deaths are unfolding amid the ongoing federal occupation of Minnesota, where roughly 3,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents have been deployed to carry out mass raids and attacks on the working class as part of the Trump administration’s drive to establish a presidential dictatorship.
In addition to deaths in ICE custody, at least two people have been shot by immigration thugs in Minnesota since the start of the year, including the murder of Renée Nicole Good on January 7 by DHS agent Jonathan Ross. As social opposition mounts, Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurre
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