Bangstad, owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company says that the Super PAC chipped in at least $10K to file the class action lawsuit on Sunday to unmask and identity MAGA Gestapo USICE and feds in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
September 2, 2025
Madison, Wisconsin - On Monday, Kirk Bangstad, the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company and Super PAC, which has the same name announced that on Sunday, he filed a class action complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Kristi Noem, Todd Lyons, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE), claiming that they are in violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution as a result of ICE's policy of conducting civil immigration enforcement with officers acting while masked or without visible identification and seeks injunctive relief from the court to cease such illegal policy mandates that allows USICE officials to wear masks and no identification when conducting immigration enforcement operations in Wisconsin.
According to Bangstag, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Wisconsinites to unmask, identify them (USICE officials) by name including badge number, and wear USICE insignia.
On Sunday during a press conference in Dane County after filing the federal lawsuit, Bangstad said, "Our lawsuit was filed on the heels of LRB 4042, a bill introduced by Wisconsin State Assembly Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D-Milwaukee) last week that seeks to effectively achieve the same goals as our lawsuit through legislative means."
"Unfortunately, legislative Democrats in this state are in the minority and the Republicans in charge won't pass this bill—because doing so would require them to muster up a level of courage that we haven't seen since Trump turned them into a cult of personality years ago.
"That's why we filed our federal lawsuit in Wisconsin's Western District. We hope that a judge on that court has the courage to meet the moment and protect Wisconsinites.
"For months, we called on Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul, to file a lawsuit to unmask ICE. We gave him the legal arguments on how to do it weeks ago and even gave him a draft of our completed lawsuit last week.
"We asked our email list of over 300K people to demand that Kaul 1) protect Wisconsinites from violent ICE agents who are racially profiling and illegally harassing U.S. Citizens and migrants alike, and 2) protect us from ICE impersonators--who get away with raping, assaulting, and robbing women because they look no different than real ICE agents who wear masks and hide their identities. We know that like us, several hundred of you wrote to Josh Kaul but have heard nothing back in return.
"After weeks of waiting for someone to get back to us from the Attorney General's office, and after our publicized deadline for him to respond by last Friday came and went, we filed our lawsuit this morning. We fully understand that our Attorney General should be doing this, not us, but here we are. Someone in this state needs to sue ICE, and if our AG isn't willing to do his job, then we'll do it for him.
"The lawsuit goes into detail about how ICE is currently violating our 1st, 4th, and 5th Constitutional Amendments by acting like a gang of thugs instead of respected law enforcement agents."
Wisconsin State Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D-Milw) proposed LRB 4042 bill to unmask and identity USICE officials, if passed by the Republican state controlled legislature, it would make it a state felony D for USICE agents and feds to wear masks and not identify themselves during immigration enforcement operations in the state.
Copy of lawsuit (57 pages) filed by Bangstad at link (PDF): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0606/5825/4063/files/Filed_Complaint_to_Unmask_ICE.pdf
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