Who provides the funding for anti ice groups in Minneapolis and how much do the paid protesters receive?
Executive summary
A range of national and local advocacy groups — including Indivisible, the ACLU, Voto Latino, the Disappeared in America Campaign, and local groups such as the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) — have been named as organizers or trackers of the wave of anti‑ICE protests after the Minneapolis shooting [1] [2] [3]. A conservative outlet and a syndicated report have claimed “far‑left” groups are funding the protests, but none of the reporting provided supplies verifiable evidence of centralized funders or of payments to protesters, and there are no documented figures in the sources for money paid to individuals to protest [4] [1] [2].
1. Who the reporting identifies as organizers and coordinators of the protests
Multiple mainstream outlets and organizers’ trackers list national civil‑rights and immigrant‑advocacy groups among those coordinating vigils and demonstrations labeled “ICE Out for Good,” with Indivisible maintaining an events tracker and organizations like the ACLU, Voto Latino and the Disappeared in America Campaign publicly associated with nationwide actions [1] [2]. Local Minnesota organizers such as the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) are also active on the ground, offering legal help and organizing local demonstrations and resources for those affected by ICE actions [3]. News coverage of the Minneapolis and Portland shootings cites these groups as key actors amplifying and coordinating protest schedules, not as secret financiers [1] [2].
2. Claim that “far‑left” groups are funding the protests — source and context
A syndicated conservative piece repeats an exclusive claim attributed to the New York Post that “far‑left groups are behind funding the anti‑ICE protests” and even links organizations like the Council on American‑Islamic Relations to that framing; however, the piece presents the claim without detailed financial evidence in the excerpts provided [4]. That claim sits apart from the empirical event‑reporting in mainstream outlets, which document organizing activity and event counts rather than tracing money flows [1] [2] [5].
3. What the mainstream reporting actually documents about funding
Contemporary reporting compiled here focuses on the scale of demonstrations, which outlets track in the hundreds to thousands of local events nationwide, and names participating organizations and local leaders — but does not identify specific donors, grant flows, bank records, or fiscal sponsors paying for the Minneapolis protests [1] [2] [5]. Coverage from Reuters, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC and others centers on the shootings themselves, public officials’ responses, arrests and the spread of demonstrations; none of those reports provide documented funding sources for protest activity in Minneapolis [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].
4. Paid protesters — evidence and absence thereof
The collection of reporting consulted contains no verified evidence that protesters in Minneapolis were being paid to attend, nor any figures indicating how much individuals would receive for participating; arrests, crowd sizes and organizational affiliations are reported but not payments [6] [8] [5]. Assertions that protesters are paid are common in political disputes and can be used to delegitimise grassroots movements; in this instance, the conservative outlet’s framing that links “far‑left funding” to the protests is not accompanied by transactional documentation in these sources [4].
5. Competing narratives and possible agendas
There are two competing narratives in play: mainstream outlets document widespread spontaneous and organized protests tracked by civil‑rights and immigrant‑advocacy groups [1] [2], while at least one partisan outlet emphasizes a narrative of outside “far‑left” funding intended to diminish the protests’ authenticity [4]. The latter framing serves political ends — casting demonstrations as astroturf rather than grassroots — but the sources provided do not corroborate those financial allegations; absent transparent donor records or independent audits, the funding claim remains an unproven assertion in the material reviewed [4] [1].
6. Bottom line and limits of available reporting
Based on the reporting available here, the protests in Minneapolis are organized and amplified by named national and local advocacy groups (Indivisible, ACLU, Voto Latino, Disappeared in America Campaign, MIRAC and others) but there is no published, verifiable accounting in these sources that identifies who specifically “funds” the protests or any payments to individual protesters, nor any dollar amounts for such payments [1] [2] [3] [4]. The absence of documented financial evidence in mainstream coverage means claims about centralized far‑left funding or paid protesters remain allegations in the supplied reporting rather than substantiated facts [4] [1].