This is a breaking story, so the information is a bit mixed. There are reports of church services in both Minneapolis and Saint Paul being disrupted by anti-ICE protesters, but I suspect that the reports are all about the same disruption, naming the two different cities.
With that caveat, there is no doubt that the services at at least one church were disrupted by anti-ICE protesters storming the service to drown out the pastor who, they claim, is associated with ICE.
JUST IN: Minneapolis church service interrupted by anti-ICE demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/foZylllRY1
— Stall (@MindsetHaven) January 18, 2026
Don Lemon live-streamed (one of?) the invasions, comparing the protest to those of the 1960s. I'm not sure that a sit-in at a Woolworth's is quite the same thing as this, but perhaps there were similar protests about which I am unaware.
This is disgusting.
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) January 18, 2026
Radical protesters enter an evangelical church (Cities Church, St. Paul, MN) and disrupt a worship service to protest an ICE agent who is a pastor there.
Absolutely despicable. pic.twitter.com/i42NoozcCq
It's not actually clear to me that the Pastor really IS associated with ICE. Too early to tell.
🚨 BREAKING: Leftist rioters in Minneapolis just STORMED A CHURCH after Don Lemon erroneously accused the priest of working with ICE
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 18, 2026
WTF?!
Just like Walz and Frey, Lemon is lying to spark riots out here.
Lemon’s desperately trying to be relevant again. pic.twitter.com/517KQ8b2v8
Presumably, the protest was planned some time ago, if Don Lemon was tipped off about the protesters storming the church. Apparently, if Don Lemon is to be believed (not a sure bet, of course), more such protests are to be expected.
🚨 BREAKING: Anti-ICE leftists just STORMED a St. Paul, Minnesota church with Don Lemon
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 18, 2026
"This is the beginning of what’s going to happen here!”
MENTALLY DERANGED.
These people know no bounds.
Using a church to vouch for child r*pists and m*rderers! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/bei0RPQS72
It's quite cold here in the Twin Cities, so invading warmer spaces is a much more attractive option than outdoor protests, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the activity move indoors, and clearly, protesters are trying to make life difficult for everybody, not just ICE agents. Hotels are no longer serving ICE agents out of concern for customer safety and are no longer taking reservations.
They are getting threats.
NEW: I’m told multiple ICE agents with rooms booked at the St. Paul Downtown Doubletree by Hilton received this notice today that their rooms are being cancelled & the hotel will temporarily close “due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul.”
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 18, 2026
I called the hotel &… pic.twitter.com/wNGsLq0vDt
NEW: I’m told multiple ICE agents with rooms booked at the St. Paul Downtown Doubletree by Hilton received this notice today that their rooms are being cancelled & the hotel will temporarily close “due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul.”I called the hotel & checked online & they are indeed not taking any bookings right now. They referred me to other hotels. I'm told this also happened today at the Intercontinental St. Paul, with ICE agents with bookings there notified the hotel will be temporarily closing today due to the ongoing unrest in Minnesota. An agent who talked to the front desk manager there says he was told it was done to protect staff because they have been getting threats from unknown individuals for lodging DHS agents.
The threats appear to be very real. On social media sites, people are talking about building IEDs, poisoning ICE agents, and other types of terrorism.
🚨 SUBMITTED: Crazy leftists are proposing that people poison ICE agents.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 18, 2026
Totally normal stuff. pic.twitter.com/d6G58PQbUL
I expected that with the temperature going down the temperature of the protests would too, but I underestimated both the commitment of the terrorists and their willingness to step things up by threatening the general public.
BREAKING: Far-left anti-ICE mob storms Minneapolis church, shuts down Sunday servicehttps://t.co/pPraBJvcVz
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 18, 2026
A commenter noted that storming the church is a violation of federal law, and yes, it is.
The Anti-ICE protestors in MN just gave the FBI and DOJ a federal nexus to investigate and arrest them.
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) January 18, 2026
This is a clear violation of the FACE act and, if repeated, a federal felony. Oops.
Video link below. Share! pic.twitter.com/5xj1ga97Wb
This should be interesting. Not that local police will arrest anyone. But there is clearly video, and the feds could definitely investigate the people involved.
It's hard to conclude anything but that the violence will kick up yet another notch. We are in the revolutionary violence stage, and our local elected officials seem determined to back the "protesters" over law enforcement, no matter how violent and disruptive they are getting.
Church service in St. Paul shut down by a mob of anti-ICE rioters on Sunday.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 18, 2026
Imagine if any other group did this to any other religion.
This is truly appalling.pic.twitter.com/dMScGCLCjU
Ordinary people are getting accosted in the streets and in restaurants now because they are "suspected" of being ICE agents. Nothing says fighting fascism better than randomly accosting people and demanding that they prove they are not members of a group you dislike.
BREAKING NEWS 💥 MINNEAPOLIS
— Erik Bryant (@Trumpwon) January 18, 2026
ICE protesters disrupt a Sunday service at Cities Church.
Protesters are upset because the pastor there is allegedly the director of the ICE field office in Saint Paul, MN
This is a developing story pic.twitter.com/dc7gO4AEPK
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