Minnesota turned into a war zone between ICE and leftist activists.
Your tax dollars are paying for it.
And Minnesota taxpayers are funding this war activists are waging against ICE.
Taxpayer Money Built This Revolving Door
The Legal Rights Center collects nearly $5.7 million in government grants every few years.
Taxpayer money — federal, state, and local.
The center uses that cash to fund the People's Bail Fund of Minnesota through its Know Your Rights MN project.
The fund launched this summer with one mission: keep anti-ICE activists cycling through arrests and back onto the streets.
Activist gets arrested blocking ICE.
Bail fund posts bail using taxpayer money.
Activist shows up to court, bail money returns.
Same money springs the next criminal.
The activists brag about it on their website, calling it a "revolving fund" that can "free many defendants over time."
The same $10,000 bails out dozens of criminals who can go back to obstructing federal law enforcement.
The Legal Rights Center updated its website to feature this bail fund on January 15th.
One day after Tim Walz told Minnesotans to film ICE agents and promised "accountability is coming" for federal officers.
Teaching Grade-Schoolers How to Dodge Cops
The Legal Rights Center isn't just running a bail scam.
They're training children to evade law enforcement.
Know Your Rights MN hosts workshops teaching kids as young as elementary school age how to hide from police.
The workshops cover surveillance cameras, social media monitoring, and cellphone tracking.
Kids learn to disguise their walking style and eye color.
One workshop instructs children on how to change their gait so police can't identify them on video.
They're teaching grade-schoolers about accomplice liability and expunging criminal records.
Follow the Money to George Soros
Tax records show the Legal Rights Center collected $460,000 from the New Venture Fund — the money-laundering operation run by Arabella Advisors.
George Soros uses that dark money network to fund left-wing causes.
The center grabbed another $30,000 from the Pohlad Family Foundation in 2020 to "protect community during protests."
That money came during the George Floyd riots.
The Minneapolis Foundation kicked in $30,000 in 2024 for "fostering resilience" among criminals.
Tim Walz Gave Them the Green Light
After ICE shot and killed Renee Good during an operation in Minneapolis, Walz mobilized the Minnesota National Guard to back up protesters against federal law enforcement.
Walz urged Minnesotans to "protest loudly, urgently" against ICE.
He told them to film federal agents to build "a database of atrocities" for "future prosecutions."
Then the Legal Rights Center updated their website to promote bail funds for the protesters Walz told to resist.
DHS revealed Walz released nearly 470 criminal illegal aliens onto Minnesota streets since Trump took office.
More than 1,360 criminal illegal aliens with active ICE detainers sit in Minnesota custody.
Walz refuses to turn them over.
The Trump administration is investigating Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiring to obstruct federal law enforcement.
Minnesota Built the Blueprint Going National
Government-funded organizations, dark money groups, and activist bail funds coordinated this system.
Now it's rolling out nationwide.
The Legal Rights Center operates through former Attorney General Keith Ellison's old law firm.
The firm boasts it's "financially supported by the State of Minnesota" while focusing on racial preferences in who gets defended.
Know Your Rights MN promotes the Black Immigrants Bail Fund, which works to free "EVERY black immigrant" in ICE custody.
Plus the LGBTQ Freedom Fund, which posts bonds specifically for "queer migrants."
The goal is "dismantling oppressive systems like bail."
Minnesota turned taxpayer funding into a machine for obstructing ICE, training children to evade police, and keeping criminals cycling through arrests.
Cities across America are copying the model.
Sources:
- Mia Cathell, "Taxpayer-funded network of Minnesota defense funds bailing out anti-ICE agitators," Washington Examiner, January 23, 2026.
- ABC News, "Minnesota governor says he is preparing National Guard amid furor over fatal ICE shooting," January 2026.
- Fox News, "Minnesota Dept of Corrections says DHS lied about it not complying with ICE detainers," January 2026.
- Axios, "How Walz, Ellison, Minnesota officials are advising ICE protesters," January 2026.
- Minnesota Reformer, "Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions," January 14, 2026.
- Fox9, "Minnesota nonprofit with $35M bails out those accused of violent crimes," August 10, 2020.
- Rolling Stone, "George Floyd Killing: Minnesota Freedom Fund Is Bailing Out Protesters," May 30, 2020.
- R Street Institute, "The Crime and Safety Blind Spot: Has the criminal justice system become a revolving door for repeat offenders?" December 6, 2024.
