Minnesota resident Will Stancil is a lawyer, policy researcher, and onetime candidate for the state’s house of representatives who has long been a voluble progressive presence on X and Bluesky. Over the past week, Stancil has become a mainstay of citizen patrols, tracking ICE agents around the city in his Honda Fit and sharing his experiences with his 100,000-plus followers. On Friday, I spoke with Stancil about what he has witnessed over the past few days.
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Do the videos we’ve seen — of violent arrests, of agents deploying flash-bangs and tear gas on bystanders — capture the full extent of what’s happening?
No. In the private rapid-response channels, people will share many, many videos, and they don’t want to bring them public because they don’t want to be identified. People are worried. So there’s lots and lots more private stuff that is never circulating. The other thing is I think it’s really difficult to capture. The last few days have been calmer. But for the first week or so, it was really hard to convey the unrelenting pace of this stuff. I had a journalist come ride along — he just published an article about it. I had been talking about how crazy it was, and I could tell he was a little bit skeptical. He thought, Okay, maybe we’ll see an ICE car. In a two-hour ride, we chased four ICE convoys onto the highway, saw someone violently abducted alive in front of us, then saw a separate ICE convoy tear-gas a major commercial intersection for no reason at all. In two hours.
We have these rapid-response channels. I mean, I got to the point where — and this is very difficult to do — but I got to the point where I mute them or turn them off or leave them when I come home in the evening because getting the constant updates — as much as I want to be informed of my community, if I’m not out there and can’t do anything about it, I am a raw nerve all day and night. I come home and I just have to lie on the couch and just shut everything off and shut my brain off because you’ll go insane hearing about what all they’re doing.
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Where does this say that this tradeshow is DHS/Law Enforcement related?
I see no information beyond that of the company
Could be a funeral industry show for all we know?
Top of the page and bottom of the page. The site itself is a 3rd party site that manages convention programing. A few months ago, both the main BSE site and the programming site wiped the previous event off their sites to get ready for the next one(and no other possible reasons, right?), so I have to use Archive.org now. This is the same event that Kristi Noem was a keynote speaker at last April.
Here's a login bypassed article talking about Matthews Environmental Solutions. https://archive.is/xDuxX
Here's a reddit post that also mentions it. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1k5pmgt/border_security_expo_shows_off_illegal_immigrant/
People need to be paying very close attention to what this company is doing. There were also numerous construction companies showing off their ability to construct concentration camps. Of course, they were AI generated.
Aah I see in the footer. Thanks