Thousands pack lefty activist group Monarca’s anti-ICE training — where they’re urged to annoy agents ‘like a mosquito’
By Shane Galvin
Published Jan. 10, 2026
Updated Jan. 10, 2026, 7:48 p.m. ET
ROSEVILLE, Minn. — More than one thousand people crammed into a Minnesota church Saturday for “training” in how to deal with ICE in the wake of Renee Nicole Good’s fatal shooting — during which the radical leftist organizer urged participants to annoy the agents like “mosquitoes.”
Program sponsor Monarca trains so-called “upstander legal observers” to follow, track, report, and record Department of Homeland Security officers while they are in the midst of operations, and urged the mostly white, middle-aged and elderly attendees to attend protests with gas masks, sunglasses and phone chargers.
“And a pencil,” they said. “In Minnesota, bring a pencil; a pen will freeze.”
Speakers decried the ICE as a “white supremacist police force that has no oversight,” urging the crowd at Roseville Lutheran Church to be persistent in their confrontations.
One speaker blasted “conservative men” and spoke of the alleged “misogynist goals of a white person and nationalist movement that is strangling our nation.”
Another speaker, who explained just how aggressive legal observers were allowed to be, told trainees to annoy ICE agents “just like a mosquito.”
Tables were set up at the front of the church to hand out whistles, which have been used by protesters to draw attention to ICE officers that they are shadowing.
The large crowd split up into groups affiliated with churches, schools, or neighborhoods and shared anecdotes of rumored ICE encounters, with some claiming their family members were “in hiding” and others insisting they knew children who were “stalked” by agents while walking home from school.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/us-news/minnesota-activist-group-monarca-training-civilians-to-follow-ice-agents-and-is-ramping-up-activities-showing-in-force/