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The Army Veteran Arrested for Protesting at a St. Paul Church Was Just Set Free

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03.02.2026

Mother Jones illustration; Julia Lurie

Ian Austin, the Army veteran who was arrested in Minneapolis on Friday by federal agents for participating in an anti-ICE protest, has been released without conditions.

Austin was featured in a viral Mother Jones video last week in which he was protesting outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based and detainees are held. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he said at the time.........

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