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19. Put the name at the top of the text into Google News
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 08:23 PM
11 hrs ago

(or your news aggregator of choice)

https://news.google.com/search?for=brandon+siguenza&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Interesting that one of the top articles is from the Cato Institute. Strange bedfellows, indeed. I hope it is okay to post an excerpt - even though we disagree with Cato on so much, it seems we agree on this topic. (One would hope "Libertarians" would have some problems with ICE. But I guess I didn't look before now.)

Note that this article pulls no punches in referring to the homicide of Renee Good.

https://www.cato.org/blog/terror-minneapolis-ordeal-brandon-siquenza

Terror in Minneapolis: The Ordeal of Brandon Siguenza and Patty O’Keefe

The homicide last week of Minneapolis resident and US citizen Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in her own neighborhood has justifiably received national press attention and public condemnation. What should also be getting the same level of press, public, and congressional attention are cases like those of Brandon Siguenza and Patty O’Keefe.

Less than a week after Good’s killing, Siguenza and O’Keefe were engaged in ICE observation activities—following ICE vehicles and recording or otherwise observing the conduct of ICE agents. The legality of public observation and recording of police engaged in their duties in public has been well established for decades at this point. Despite that fact, in July 2025, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that “Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it’s videotaping them where they’re at when they’re out on operations.…”

In the case of Siguenza, O’Keefe, and other such public observers of ICE operations in Minneapolis, ICE is ignoring the law and engaging in violence and detention operations against the observers. On social media, Siguenza offered a description of what he and O’Keefe went through while in ICE detention after agents had arrested them. I’ve curated his account into this file.

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