This week: Events Galore and Immigration News
SD49 Activist Bulletin: October 2nd, 2025. Written by Kat Johnson, SD49 Chair
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Hi, neighbors,
Events are coming up this week!
SD49 Monthly Meeting: Thursday October 9th, 6-8 PM
We’ll talk about things we do to feel better and these turbulent times. Bring your stories. Share your good and difficult experiences with elections and campaigns.
SD49 Fundraiser: Monday October 13th, 6:30-8:30PM
This local event will feature conversations with our district elected officials and opportunities to donate to their campaigns. RSVP to barrett@dflhouse.com. You will get event details including location.
Every Wednesday, 4:30-6:30PM
50 to 70 people gather at the north west corner of Highway seven and 101. We smile and wave and hold signs and flags to show the thousands driving passed we will not stand down while Trump tries to dismantle our country. 95% of cars honk, waving and thumbs up. It’s so encouraging and very fun to stand in a group of people working for change. Parking at the US Bank or near the Walgreens drugstore makes it easy. Spend an hour or two with us. Give it a try! Silver is gold: Old(er) people showing up at rallies are putting the lie to the current occupant’s fearmongering. LFG, old and young and everyone!
George’s Corner:
Good News! Immigrating fraud is vanishingly small here.
You may have heard of the Twin Shield enforcement sweep by FBI, ICE, USCIS and CBP last week. USCIS flew in its director to gin up the operation. They wasted millions in taxpayer resources to find a lot of not much.
This effort to find "fraud" did not find … much of anything. The fiction is aimed to breed more sweeps unless we push back and show that honestly - it is a waste of government resources. There is not pervasive fraud.
They looked at over 1000 cases, conducted 900 site visits, arrested 4 and referred 42 to ICE (presumably to start removal proceedings). That tiny number is less than 5% of 1000. The numbers and percentages they reported are more mythology than numerology.
Of the 1000s or 10,000s immigration benefit cases in the Twin Cities and the 1000+ cases initially thought to have something potentially problematic - only 4 out of more than a thousand posed a public safety threat. Only 42 of 1000 had violated rules in a way that made them potentially removable from the US.
