SEE IT: The Anti-ICE Slideshow Given To A Middle School Geography Class

Eighth-grade students at a Minnesota middle school were taught in geography class that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents use “tricky & violent tactics,” and were given extra credit for watching a British-produced video on the problem of illegal immigration in the United States.

Materials obtained by Defending Education show that the students at Hermantown Community School were given a highly politicized lesson on illegal immigration and ICE operations. The materials included a PowerPoint that adopted left-wing talking points on immigration and a video produced by a British broadcaster on ICE operations in Chicago.

The instruction at the Duluth-area school took place in December 2025 and featured a PowerPoint where students were asked: “In what ways do people think the Ice agents have ‘gone too far’?”

The answer said that ICE agents use “tricky & violent tactics,” that people have died in ICE custody, that agents have not filed “proper paperwork to track arrests,” and wear “masks to hide identities,” according to slides shared with The Daily Wire by Defending Education. 

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Another slide accused ICE of arresting and harassing “thousands of LEGAL immigrants and 170 U.S. citizens — including being dragged, tackled, beaten, tased.”

One slide alleged that detainees were being placed “in overcrowded & inhumane detention centers: super hot or cold, lights on 24/7, solitary confinement in a 2×2 foot box, overflowing toilets, long term shackling … lacking medical care.” That slide also featured a graphic of a poster claiming the United States was “torturing migrants and asylum seekers.”

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Another slide downplayed the crime of illegally crossing into the United States.

“The government said they were going to focus on undocumented CRIMINALS, but they are actually deporting mostly otherwise law-abiding undocumented people,” the slide read.

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In an email obtained by Defending Education, Middle School Principal William Wietman said the presentation was in line with state geography guidelines.

“All of our social studies classes have a current events component to them and this information is part of the MN standards in geography,” he wrote.

Nicole Neily, founder and president of Defending Education, told The Daily Wire that the presentation was an example of students being subjected to leftist politics while in the classroom.

“It’s bad enough that this biased lesson is replete with falsehoods — but [for] the school principal to defend such garbage truly adds insult to injury,” she said. “Students are being force-fed ideological propaganda during finite lesson time (when they’re not being encouraged by activist teachers to walk out of their classrooms, that is) and told what to think, rather than how to think. It’s little wonder that families are fleeing the public education system in droves.”

Students in the class were also given an opportunity to watch a 19-minute video on their own time for extra credit. The video was produced by the British government-owned broadcaster “Channel 4 News.”

The narrator of the video said that those detained by ICE were denied “due process” and that President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration could “forever” change “America’s reputation as the land of the free.” He claimed that Trump wasn’t focused on “keeping people out” but “kicking them out instead.”

The British host also claimed that “most people in the U.S. without legal immigration status aren’t criminals,” ignoring the fact that they broke the law by sneaking into the country.

Another slide linked to a video from 2016 called “TRUMP IS WRONG: The USA Is ALREADY Great!” One of the reasons cited was having the “world’s largest immigrant population,” and that this “diversity” meant “we get to eat delicious food.”

Part of the stated goals of Hermantown Community Schools is to use a curriculum that is “antiracist” and “culturally sustaining.” It defines antiracist as “actively working to identify and eliminate racism in all forms in order to change policies, behaviors, and beliefs that perpetuate racist ideas and actions,” and “culturally sustaining” as integrating the practices of “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities who have been and continue to be harmed and erased through the education system.”