Not what the Huffington Post see’s there….
It would seem to be a ‘Sell’ in the media....
Both side’s ARE dug in….
Top Trump administration officials certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after federal immigration enforcement agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse in Minneapolis.
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino lost his job. Border czar Tom Homan said he’s pulling 700 federal agents out of the state. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she’s sending body cameras to every DHS field officer in Minneapolis. Even President Donald Trump sort of registered problems with his surge of Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers in the state that continues to spark widespread protests, traumatize immigrant communities and has left two Americans dead, Pretti and Renee Good.
“Maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch,” Trump told NBC Newson Wednesday, when asked if he’s learned anything from how his massive ICE operation has played out.
But for at least some residents, nothing has changed on the ground. At all.
“We had 2 abductions in my area on Monday and 2 more today,” Nate, a Minneapolis real estate agent involved in community efforts to protect immigrants from ICE, told HuffPost in a Thursday message. “They drew guns on observers in South [Minneapolis] yesterday and were jumping out of cars today about a mile and a half from us.”
Nate, who requested using only his first name, said he knew of at least eight observers ― citizens documenting potential legal violations by federal agents ― who were detained in Minneapolis by ICE on Friday. At least three were released later in the day….
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While the Trump administration may not be easing up at all in its efforts to intimidate and hunt down immigrants, neither are the residents of the Minneapolis-St.Paul region. In interviews with dozens of people over the past two weeks, it was clear that virtually everybody is hunkering down together and coordinating to carry out sophisticated operations to keep their neighbors safe during ICE’s “occupation” here….
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“We are not intimidated, by the way,” she said. “We are undaunted.”
Nate, the real estate agent, said he’s in it for the long haul when it comes to fending off ICE in his community, whether it’s continuing to bring food to neighbors, helping with ICE patrols or being an observer when masked ICE agents show up. It’s just part of his daily routine now, he said,
Besides, he added, Minnesotans are stubborn as hell.
“This is like a very black-and-white issue to me. This is either justice and righteousness, or this is the opposite. You are on one side or the other,” said Nate.
“We aren’t going away.”
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