Anti-ICE Movement Paving Way For ‘Armed Militancy’ Among Leftists, Terrorism Analyst Warns

Radical leftists are increasingly open to “armed militancy” in the U.S. amid protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, a watchdog report warns.

An anarchist manifesto on how to “build an insurgency in the US” and achieve “complete annihilation” of their political enemies has resurfaced on radical blog sites after being published in October, according to a Center for Security Policy report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The blog post aligns with other evidence that leftists are pushing toward long-term insurrectionist goals, relishing Minnesota’s confrontations between protesters and federal agents, Shideler found.

“Despite potential ideological reservations in some quarters, while difficult to quantify, an observation of anarchist and anti-fascist social media accounts does seem to suggest that support for armed militancy has increased steadily,” counterterrorism analyst Kyle Shideler wrote in the report. “This support includes a growing cadre of firearms trainers and armed organizations [around the country] with an explicitly revolutionary leftist orientation. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk and attacks on ICE detention centers and police, media interest in these armed groups has likewise risen.”

However, the anarchist post’s author critiques “ICE Watch” groups that follow and record agents and anti-Israel encampment protests as merely “reactive,” while the author lays out “a way to win the war against humanity waged by the US government,” Shideler notes. One proposed method is to conquer portions of U.S. territory, a tactic Shideler compared to the anti-ICE road blockades created in Minneapolis over the past week.

“The author is ultimately unapologetic that the goal is to use force to seize and control territory in a balkanized United States, from which they will eliminate their political opponents,” Shideler’s report says.

Minnesota activists used debris to slow down traffic at the blockades, check drivers’ license plates and deter ICE vehicles, assaulting a DCNF reporter in the process.

“The ideologically hardened right wingers are essentially enemy combatants,” the manifesto reads. “Whether they are currently active is not so much a question. If allowed to remain in a territory, they may be or could become agents of the counterinsurgent.”

“They must be thoroughly disabled and removed from liberated territories,” the author continues. “It is important to begin considering how to deal with these factions from the perspective of an abolitionist movement. Complete annihilation is essential.”