"We are told that federal agents only arrest the 'worst of the worst,' and that neighborhood observers are violent protestors. Our experience is very different.
We have seen our neighbors racially profiled and wrongfully detained, all who are here legally, with no criminal record. Our children witnessed federal agents descend on their school at dismissal time, spray students with chemical irritants and wrongfully detain their teachers."
"For all of our gloom about the future, it appears we aren’t giving up. Perhaps the Golden Age really is upon us after all. It’s just not the one Donald Trump thinks it is."
"We grew up in Stevens County. We are farm kids, 4-H kids, and Morris Tigers. We attended Faith Lutheran and Zion Lutheran Churches, and we were raised by a community of neighbors who always looked out for one another. That community instilled in us values we still carry today, and for that we are grateful."
Liz (Wendt) Leino, Jenny (Wendt) Roark, Ed Spohr, Mary Spohr, Sara Spohr quoted by Angela Denker
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Minnesota #resistance
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/dissonance-and-departure-in-minnesota
"We are told that federal agents only arrest the 'worst of the worst,' and that neighborhood observers are violent protestors. Our experience is very different.
We have seen our neighbors racially profiled and wrongfully detained, all who are here legally, with no criminal record. Our children witnessed federal agents descend on their school at dismissal time, spray students with chemical irritants and wrongfully detain their teachers."
"The fundamental reasons Homan was sent in and Bovino was sent packing remained. The people of Minneapolis had demonstrated a sustained commitment to resisting ICE and CBP actions through tracking, observing, documenting and warning about federal immigration enforcement across the city."
~ Jay Kuo
"They used whistles, communication apps, community organizing and their own cars and bodies to make detentions and arrests harder to conduct. And they turned out by the tens of thousands in subzero weather to make their voices heard."
