Hotels across the country are housing ICE agents as they carry out violent raids, detention operations, and street abductions. Of course people are pushing back. Activists have been calling for boycotts of hotel chains like Marriott and Hilton that cooperate with ICE, arguing that businesses should not be providing material support for an enforcement regime built on mass detention…
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As hundreds of Minneapolis residents assembled in Whittier Park Saturday evening to demand once again that federal immigration agents leave Minnesota following the second fatal shooting of a legal observer in less than three weeks, one speaker demanded that the gathering must not simply be “another damn vigil.” “This is a turning point,” said Edwin Torres DeSantiago of the Immigrant Defense…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have created a crisis in Minneapolis hospitals since escalating anti-immigrant operations in the Minnesota city in early December. Health care workers who spoke to Truthout report that the number of agents in hospitals has risen sharply since the beginning of the year, with ailing or injured detainees regularly brought into emergency…
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In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance…
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Federal immigration officers shot a third person in Minneapolis in as many weeks, according to video posted to social media and confirmed by Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara. O’Hara said federal agents killed a 37-year-old man whom officials believe is a U.S. citizen who lives in Minneapolis. He said he had no information about what led up to the shooting but said the man…
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The Trump administration’s federal invasion and occupation of the state of Minnesota continues to sow chaos in the Twin Cities, but grassroots resistance to ICE and Trump has also exploded. And on Friday, Jan. 23, unions, community organizations, small businesses, faith communities, and Minnesota residents of all kinds will participate in a mass strike, a day of “No work, no school, and no shopping.” We speak with Aminah Sheikh, a union organizer and an active member and executive board member of Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America, and Nick Estes, an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and an associate professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, ““Shut everything down”: Amid federal invasion, Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23”
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Post-Production by Stephen Frank
Hosted and produced by Maximillian Alvarez
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Nick Estes:
It doesn’t matter if you have a tribal ID that ain’t stopping ice. Give me your hands. Give me your hands. A passport. That ain’t stopping ICE. An ID card. That ain’t stop an ICE. No,
Speaker 2:
No! Shame! Oh my God. What the [expletive]!
Nick Estes:
This agenda is not just about immigration enforcement. It’s a campaign of terror.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome everyone to The Real News Network podcast. My name is Maximillian Alvarez. I’m the editor in chief here at The Real News, and it’s so great to have you all with us as we speak. The state of Minnesota is under siege by our own federal government and residents.