1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

Investigate the DHS surveillance operation exposed in the Minnesota 15 case, defund Homeland Security Investigations, and disband ICE. Court records reveal that 119 HSI agents, including 11 undercovers, used Reaper drones, Patriot Act financial tools, infiltrated Signal chats, and commercial data brokers to spy on community organizers in the Twin Cities. That is not immigration enforcement. That is a secret police operation targeting First Amendment-protected activity. Defense attorneys and former law enforcement officials are comparing this directly to COINTELPRO, and the comparison holds. HSI repurposed funding mechanisms built for drug cartels and terrorism investigations and turned them on people organizing know-your-rights trainings and community meetings. Agents also obtained phone records of journalists covering the story using administrative summons reserved for customs violations. This is the apparatus of an authoritarian government, not a constitutional republic. The Minnesota 15 case is almost certainly not isolated. HSI agents from Los Angeles, Arizona, and specialized units nationwide were pulled into this single investigation. Elected officials must act before this infrastructure is used against more communities. Investigate every aspect of Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master, cut the funding that makes operations like Keyhole possible, and end the agency carrying this out.