The Minneapolis hotel smashed up overnight by anti-ICE rioters was on a target list created by the Twin Cities chapter of Sunrise Movement, a radical group funded by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Video footage shows dozens of anti-ICE rioters descending on Home2 Suites by Hilton near the University of Minnesota late Sunday night. The group used noisemakers and pounded on trash bins before turning violent—the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s facade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. As they attempted to force their way in, those inside were forced to use two vending machines to block the hotel’s entrance.
NOW: Anti-ICE Protesters shatter windows at hotel where they suspect ICE Agents are staying. Debris seen inside hotel lobby. pic.twitter.com/p8g2O9b5vs
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 26, 2026
Anti-ICE protesters destroying sign of Home2 Suites Hotel in Minneapolis, were they believe ICE is staying.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 26, 2026
Hilton windows are smashed up, tagged and doors broke during anti Ice protest in Minneapolis Home2Suits hotel. There is 1 police officer for about an hour, who appears to be negotiating. Doesn't seem like more police is expected to come. pic.twitter.com/43xsIY2cHV
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 26, 2026
Sunrise’s list, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, catalogs nearly 70 hotels across the Twin Cities area that the group claims are housing ICE agents. It was updated Saturday—well before the attack on Home2 Suites—and includes hotel names, addresses, phone numbers, and even the "suspected" number of ICE agents staying at each location.
While the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said state officers responded to the hotel riot, it added they were "no longer on scene" after federal agents "deployed chemical irritants, clearing the group." One federal officer, bloodied by a rioter who threw an object at him, asked reporters on the scene, "Where is the local PD? That’s my question for the press." Customs and Border Protection commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed Monday afternoon that federal officers were in the building, calling it "an attack on law enforcement."
Protests and riots have gripped Minneapolis since the Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement operation in the city, particularly after a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good, an anti-ICE activist, on Jan. 7. Sunday’s unrest erupted a day after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a second anti-ICE activist, Alex Pretti, an armed 37-year-old, during a federal immigration enforcement operation aimed at arresting an Ecuadorian national, Jose Huerta-Chuma, who authorities say has a criminal history including domestic assault, disorderly conduct, and driving without a license. DHS said Pretti approached officers armed with a 9mm handgun and resisted their attempts to disarm him, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense, while bystander video shows Pretti struggling against several officers on the ground when shots rang out.
Sunrise, meanwhile, was founded to fight climate change, but has directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration and openly advocates to "abolish ICE." In Minneapolis, Sunrise Movement Twin Cities has hosted "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution" and has spent over a month organizing late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for hotels to operate.
Just hours before Sunday’s unrest broke out, Sunrise Movement Twin Cities hosted a virtual training titled "No Justice, No Sleep," which instructed attendees on how "to kick ICE out of your city" and "shut down hotels that are housing ICE."
The group has taken credit for forcing the closure of at least two Minnesota hotels.
"Our strategy to target hotels that are housing ICE agents is WORKING," Sunrise posted to Instagram on Jan. 19. "Two hotels in the Twin Cities just decided to pause their operations rather than house ICE agents. We need other hotels to follow their lead ... We the people have the power, and we’re not backing down."
Like many of the radical groups organizing anti-ICE protests, Sunrise is funded by the Left’s premier foundations and dark money networks, the Free Beacon reported earlier this month. Open Society Foundations has sent it $2 million since 2019, according to its grant database. Half of the money supported general "social welfare activities." The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, while the MacArthur Foundation—the 12th-largest private charity in America—gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures. Sunrise says it generally rejects "checks that come with expectations of input on our strategy." It also says donations go to support its local chapters with "materials, housing, technology, food, travel, training expenses, and more."
A flyer advertising Sunday’s demonstration—"anonymously submitted" to a local anti-ICE Instagram account—urged participants to "bring noisemakers, signs, [and] your anger" to "get these fascist bastards out of our cities."
The protest flyer was also promoted on Instagram by the University of Minnesota's Students for a Democratic Society chapter, a radical anti-Israel student group whose members stormed and occupied a campus building roughly a year after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel.
Sunrise did not respond to a request for comment.
