On March 27, 2025, ICE agents arrived at an off-campus residence in Minneapolis and detained a graduate student at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
The university confirmed it. The governor confirmed it. The senators confirmed it.
But three days later, here’s what no one will say:
Who was taken?
Why?
Where are they now?
There is no name. No nationality. No charges. No legal documentation made public. Just a silence that sounds an awful lot like complicity.
This is not “immigration enforcement.” This is authoritarian theater, orchestrated by a regime that wants to make fear visible, permanent, and inescapable — without ever having to justify itself.
THE TRUMP-NOEM-MILLER PLAYBOOK IS IN EFFECT
Let’s be clear: this didn’t happen in a vacuum. It happened in Trump’s America, Part II — a sequel even darker than the first.
This is what it looks like when Stephen Miller’s fascist fantasies become federal policy again.This is what it looks like when Kristi Noem, Trump’s heir apparent, calls student protesters “terrorists” and demands universities hand over names.
This is what it looks like when the president of the United States refers to “vermin,” jokes about mass deportation trains, and rebuilds the very system that once stole children in the night.
You think it’s a coincidence that this student was taken just weeks after Trump’s DOJ threatened “uncooperative” campuses? You think it’s a coincidence that this student was taken days after the University of Minnesota received a federal warning over “pro-Palestine activity”?
You think it’s a coincidence that this student — not a criminal, not even accused of a crime — has simply vanished?
No. This is the blueprint.
And if we don’t say the word now — authoritarianism — we might never get the chance again.
JOIN US MONDAY: PROTEST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
We are gathering. Not to whisper. Not to plead. But to demand.
PROTEST DETAILS:
Monday, March 31 — Noon
Outside Morrill Hall
100 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN
Bring your voice. Bring your questions. Bring your rage. Because the only thing more dangerous than ICE disappearing a student is if we let it happen in silence.
THIS ISN’T JUST A STUDENT. THIS IS A STRATEGY.
ICE is targeting students to make you afraid to organize.
They want to turn your visa into a leash. Your education into a threat. Your freedom into a warning to others.
But they don’t want to fight us in the open.
They want us to vanish into news blurbs and procedural ambiguity.They want plausible deniability backed by actual terror.
We are not playing along.
WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW:
1. Join the protest at Morrill Hall on Monday, March 31st at noon
2. Use the hashtag #WhereIsTheStudent to flood their silence
3. File a FOIA request — we’ll help (link coming)
4. Sign up for our April 1–4 campaign: #ExposeTheFools
5. Call out Noem, Miller, and Trump by name. This is their playbook.
6. Show up and participate in a protest on April 5th.
They want us to believe this is normal.
They want us to look away.
They want us to be afraid of asking the simplest question in a democracy:
Where is the student?
Let’s ask it — again, and again, and again — until the silence shatters.
#whereisthestudent#exposethefools
