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Inside Minneapolis: A Day in ICE's Largest Immigration Crackdown

The Washington Post
January 20, 20262 days ago
A day in the life of ICE’s largest immigration crackdown

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a large-scale operation in a U.S. city. Activists monitored federal agents, while individuals faced deportation, pleaded for goodbyes, and pursued loved ones. An asylum seeker expressed anxiety about their new life and potential deportation, highlighting the operation's impact on immigrants and their families.

MINNEAPOLIS — On the seventh Friday of the largest immigration enforcement operation in a U.S. city, during a presidency defined by the issue, a growing cadre of activists searched tinted car windows for masked federal agents. A man facing a deportation order in connection with a rape more than 20 years ago begged one of those agents for a final moment to say goodbye to the mother of his children. A child care worker blowing desperately on a whistle sprinted after two federal officers pursuing a person. And a 22-year-old Ecuadorian asylum seeker ventured out nervously to a new job in a city that seemed to be tilting on end, in a country threatening to shake her loose.

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