Good morning. It is Saturday, January the 24th. I'm Ali Velshi.

Since the Trump administration ramped up its incursion into American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, we've seen plenty of videos showing the barbaric tactics that the government is

using against civilians, citizens and non-citizens alike. The aggression on display in many of these

images has been shocking, both in terms of their brutality and their apparent legality. We've seen

videos of masked federal officers, breaking car windows, pulling people out of their vehicles.

We've seen them liberally use pepper spray on protesters, sometimes spraying it just inches away from

their eyes. And then this week we saw this. A man with a blanket draped over his shoulders,

wearing nothing but his boxers and a pair of slip-on shoes, handcuffed and escorted out into the snow by officers.

This is quite a story. This man is 56-year-old Chong Lee Scott Tao. On the day he was taken last Sunday,

January 18th, the temperatures in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lives, only reached a

high of 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

Tao is a naturalized American citizen. He's of Hmong descent. It's an ethnic group that has

roots in ancient China. Over the centuries, conflict has forced the Hmong to migrate south

to countries like Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Many of the Hmong families have settled in

Minnesota. They arrived from Laos.

They started coming to the United States in the 1970s as the Vietnam War ravaged the region and drove them out of their home.

Some of those Hmong refugees helped American troops during the war, including Tao's late mother,

a nurse who worked at a hospital in Laos that treated many American soldiers

and their Hmong counterparts who fought alongside them. Today, the Minneapolis-St. Paul region

has the largest concentration of Hmong people in America, and that community is now among

those being terrorized by the encroaching presence of ice in the state. There are a lot of disturbing details about

Tao's arrest. Despite the government's insistence that it carried out targeted operations,

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