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"ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities. The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul — density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population — are absent here"
just because they've stopped making a spectacle in bigger cities does not mean they're leaving folks alone
https://www.theverge.com/policy/878713/ice-minnesota-dhs-suburbs
ETA archive link: archive.ph/EP4Z9
@inquiline they are also moving more quickly in hopes of avoiding observers picking them up. Monarca is still doing observer training and moving out from the Twin Cities - sign up now!
apropos:
"And in western Wisconsin, we were pretty close to Minneapolis. So imagine all the tension that comes with that. Plus farmers are feeling the effects of ICE and CBP there because these agents don't just stay in Minneapolis. They've got quotas to meet. So they take field trips out into the surrounding countryside to find enough people to round up. So now on top of everything else, farms in that area have not been able to function because ICE and CBP are arresting citizens and people who have legal permission to be in this country. So nobody who looks like they could be arrestable even wants to go outside. And that's most of the farm workers in western Wisconsin. They're in hiding."
