Getting Real About ICE In Your Neighborhood
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen, like a lot of people in America right now, are feeling stressed and overwhelmed over what is happening in Minneapolis and across the country. Recently, the situation in Minneapolis escalated even further when federal agents shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti. This is just the latest in a massive upheaval in the city since thousands of armed and masked Department of Homeland Security agents were sent into the city in December.
They start the show checking in with each other about how they’re all doing right now and try to help each other process these times. Lucy opens up about being an immigrant in Miami during all this, Elizabeth shares the complicated situation on military bases, and more.
Later in the show, they’re joined by Slate writer Shirin Ali to talk through her latest piece, “Minneapolis Is Just the Beginning” and talk through ways families can prepare in case ICE comes to their city.
Helpful Resources and Mentioned in the Show
5 Calls (For calling your lawmakers)
Minnesota State Senator, Erin Maye Quade’s TikTok with advice
AACAP Resource Library on Children, Families & Immigration
10 Strategies for How Schools Should Respond to Help Children Impacted by ICE Raids
We The People Activist Toolkit
No Kings website
How Immigration Enforcement Became So Violent - What Next
Everyone Saw CBP Kill Alex Pretti - What Next
Video production by Micah Phillips.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Karen Feeding. |
| 0:10.0 | We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk about life, grief, |
| 0:14.6 | swap advice, and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. I am Dad to Noah, |
| 0:28.4 | who's eight, and Ami, who's five. We are here in freezing cold Detroit. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's |
| 0:38.7 | nine. And we live in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15, |
| 0:46.4 | Avery who's 13, and we live in Miami. Every week we answer your questions, share our own |
| 0:52.1 | parenting triumphs and fails, and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your friends. |
| 0:57.6 | But today we're doing things a little different. It's hard to avoid what's been going on in Minneapolis. |
| 1:04.4 | And believe me, our group chat is lit. I mean, it has been blowing up all through the weekend all this week. And it's stressful |
| 1:13.2 | and it's scary AF, as the kids would say. And honestly, we're not doing so hot. So we're going to |
| 1:22.7 | talk about it. So there's no times and fails this week, no listener question, just a straight up conversation |
| 1:29.7 | about how we're doing, what we're worried about. Then we are going to be joined by Slate writer |
| 1:35.9 | Shireen Ali, who will share some tips on how to help and keep your family safe if |
| 1:41.3 | ice comes to your city. So please stick around. |
| 1:49.4 | Welcome back. This weekend saw the situation in Minneapolis escalate even further when |
| 1:55.1 | federal agents shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Preti on Saturday. This is just the latest in a really massive upheaval in the city since thousands of |
| 2:04.9 | armed and masked Department of Homeland Security agents, customs and border patrol, ICE, |
| 2:10.5 | etc., were sent into the city in December. |
| 2:13.6 | There have been protests, reports of children being separated from their parents and taken into custody, a lot of people attempting to be legal observers of federal officer activities. |
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