ICE Detains Americans and Targets the Press | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“We cannot be neutral about the dismantling of our democracy and still expect to be protected by it.”
Walking in the footsteps of great journalists who came before her, local Minnesota reporter Georgia Fort has been bearing witness to history as she covers ICE’s Operation Metro Surge on the ground in Minneapolis.
Georgia Fort is the founder of BLCK Press, a social enterprise newsroom in Minnesota, mobilizing the next generation to advance representation in the media workforce.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome home, y'all. This is Native Lambot. It's Solo Pod Day. I'm your host, Angela Rye. |
| 0:19.2 | And today we are still talking about ice just taking over |
| 0:24.6 | Minneapolis. And the residents, the citizens there are not letting it go by easily. They are holding |
| 0:31.4 | ice accountable on every side. They are ensuring that they are protecting citizens from |
| 0:36.0 | horns, car horns to whistles. They are ensuring that ice's protecting citizens from horns, car horns to whistles. |
| 0:38.8 | They are ensuring that ICE's road is not easy. |
| 0:41.2 | Now, one thing I want to flag for you all, these days you can't necessarily trust the data |
| 0:47.1 | coming out of this administration because they throw out numbers all the time that may or may not |
| 0:52.3 | be fact checked. |
| 0:53.0 | But the Department of Homeland Security |
| 0:55.6 | Secretary, Christy Noem, is saying, as of today, more than 10,000 people have been detained |
| 1:02.8 | by ICE in Minnesota. What we know so far is some of these people are citizens. They're saying |
| 1:08.4 | they're all illegals. First of all, we all know that human |
| 1:11.5 | beings cannot be illegal. They can be undocumented people, but we know for a fact. They have even |
| 1:17.8 | detained people who are Native American, indigenous to this country, people who've been there |
| 1:23.9 | before them, right? This is what we're up against right now in this day and age, |
| 1:28.3 | right on the other side of the Martin Luther King holiday. I'm thrilled to introduce to some of you. |
| 1:34.4 | I know many of you, many, many of you have seen her incredible journalism on the ground in Minnesota. |
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