Since early 2025, Minnesota, especially Minneapolis, has been a hotbed of ICE activity and local pushback. Federal agents have stormed homes, worn masks with no ID, and met fierce resistance from people in the city. But there was something most outsiders didn’t know: some of that resistance unfolded on Tinder.
Now, there’s a video tearing through social media, more specifically Reddit. The post claims that a group of women in Minneapolis used dating apps to get sensitive info from ICE agents.
In the video, a man says the Trump administration spent months trying to track down who was leaking ICE operations in Minneapolis. He points the finger at a local group of women who, supposedly, used Tinder to connect with ICE agents and pull info from them.
One of the women from the operation looks right at the camera to call out the man who went public without asking. “It’ll always be a man who ruins the project women built themselves,” she says.
She says several women in the city got involved, using dating apps as part of what she describes as an informal but organized project. According to her, they kept things quiet through strict vetting and didn’t trust outsiders, especially journalists. She also mentions they sometimes shared fake info on purpose so their real network wouldn’t get exposed.
She goes on to call out a man who allegedly blew their cover, accusing him of just wanting attention and stealing credit from the women behind the effort. She adds that some in the group basically used dating apps as part of their jobs, and the operation was still running until not long ago.
Per Closer to the Edge, about twenty women in Minnesota used dating apps, mostly Tinder, to match with ICE agents. They managed to pull off three major things: they grabbed photos of agents’ real faces (since those guys showed up masked with no IDs), picked up info on secret raid locations (agents handed this over shockingly easily when a match flirted), and if their cover got blown, they sent chat logs straight to the agents’ wives.
Internet Reacts To Minnesota Women’s ICE Tinder Honeypot Operation
Reddit’s response was largely sympathetic to the women. “The women are true heroes. Thank you for your service,” one person wrote, while another simply called them “Angels doing the Lord’s work.”
Several comments focused on the operational logic of the whole thing. “Women make the better spies statistically speaking because men fell for the same trick every time,” one person wrote. The broader pattern came up quickly, too: “It will always be a man that ruins the project that women are doing on their own — and this isn’t the first time women created a ring to get information out of men,” another added.
One comment reframed the entire story in a way that shifted the focus: “Who was leaking information? Not the women — the ICE agents were themselves the leak this video is about. Shifting the leakiness to the women allows these agents, who had no operational security awareness, to escape responsibility for their failure. That said, kudos to the gals.”
So now, somewhere in a DHS field office, new rules are getting written about using dating apps during operations. Apparently, some agents needed it spelled out: don’t give up mission details just because someone on Tinder flirts with you. The women understood this all along. They were counting on it. And, for a while, it worked, until it didn’t.
