rapidly deteriorated<\/a>. His parents, originally from Ecuador, had been scheduled for their hearing in late February. They are not in the U.S. illegally and have no criminal record. DHS is simply trying to end their asylum claims.<\/p>\nThe judge ultimately granted a continuance in their case, giving Ramos\u2019 family more time to defend their asylum claim.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said those things, then expedited their hearing for Liam and family,\u201d Stuenkel said of Trump administration officials. \u201cThey said those things, and they are still thick in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
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So much for Trump’s “softer touch” with ICE operations in Minneosta. Here’s a band of masked federal agents detaining a protester in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n
Photo by Charly Triballeau \/ Getty<\/p>\n
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\u2019s \u201coccupation\u201d here.<\/p>\n
They take part in daily ICE patrols through neighborhoods, with people watching for unmarked cars and alerting each other to sightings. They drive each other\u2019s kids to and from school, and even walk them into their homes, when those kids\u2019 parents are too scared to go outside. They coordinate trips to grocery stores for immigrant neighbors and food deliveries to their homes. Schools and churches have become pantries. Between getting their children ready for school and cooking dinner for their families, parents use secure messaging apps like Signal to keep their constant communication with each other secret.<\/p>\n
In Columba Heights, grandparents and retired teachers stand outside various public schools with whistles, blowing them when they see agents driving by when children are outside. School officials promptly provide cover.<\/p>\n
Stuenkel said ICE agents didn\u2019t detain anyone when they sat in her schools\u2019 parking lots last week. Their presence was meant to intimidate this community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not intimidated, by the way,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are undaunted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nate, the real estate agent, said he\u2019s in it for the long haul when it comes to fending off ICE in his community, whether it\u2019s continuing to bring food to neighbors, helping with ICE patrols or being an observer when masked ICE agents show up. It\u2019s just part of his daily routine now, he said, <\/p>\n
Besides, he added, Minnesotans are stubborn as hell.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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,\u201d said Nate. \u201cWe aren\u2019t going away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. \u2013 Top Trump administration officials certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[203372,23,46162,16950,6429,3,191965,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-456708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alex-pretti","tag-america","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-news","tag-renee-good","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}