Some Americans are carrying their passports in Minnesota: "The reality of Minneapolis right now"

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Source: CBS News

January 29, 2026 / 2:01 PM EST


Some American citizens have begun carrying their passports in Minneapolis, fearful that they'll be mistaken for undocumented immigrants and detained amid a surge of federal agents to the city.

CBS News spoke with several people of color, some from immigrant backgrounds, who said they weren't leaving their homes without passports in the event they had to prove their citizenship.

"Wrong place, wrong time"

Dana, who did not want to use her last name, said she's making her children carry their passports around because people don't immediately know her background when they look at her.

"I've been hiding in the house for the last two weeks, working from home," Dana, who is in the process of getting her own passport, told us. She said her oldest child was home from college and she wouldn't let her go into the city. "Wrong place, wrong time, something could happen, and I worry about myself, and I worry about my children," she said.

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In Minnesota, some U.S. citizens have told CBS News they are carrying their passports as federal immigration officers continue to detain people in the city. CBS News' Lana Zak spoke to three people who explained why they are carrying the documentation with them.

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11:37 AM · Jan 29, 2026

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. 1. There is danger of loss of passport. After ice roughs up people

And drops them off in the woods, their paperwork is missing

[bdamomma]

2. Why normalize

this crap, why????? Shouldn't we tell them to kiss off????? Showing papers and ID, they are fucking laughing at us. We are Americans, they are the one who should us their ID's. Just venting.

[dem4decades]

3. Your papers please. Or however you say it in German.

[Griefbird]

4. ICE can't read passports

That wasn't part of their training. Your passport means nothing to them. They'll gladly shoot you anyway.

[Sailingdiver]

5. Sadly, my wife, a naturalized citizen

Started carrying her passport card with her at all times for this reason.

And, now she is very worried about her daughter, who received her derivative citizenship, is a LPR - daughter is under 18 and has now been in the US about a year (legally with visa). Yes we are working on obtaining her daughters certificate of citizenship so we can get her a passport, too.

But they just don't care.

I'll never forgive any of the cult for their vote.

[Tree Lady]

6. I just found out my next door neighbor has a green card

I thought she was a citizen through her husband has been in country for decades. She told my husband she wears a pouch now and keeps papers with her at all times. She just left overseas to visit her father who lives in Japan and I am worried for her, noticed first time in all the years we have lived here she didn’t take her kids.

This really is crazy.

[GP6971]

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