Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. We begin in Minneapolis.

These are live pictures of protesters braving frigid temperatures as anger mounts over federal agents' use of violent

and legally questionable tactics as part of the White House's immigration crackdown.

Businesses across the state of Minnesota are closed today as part of the so-called

ice-out demonstrations calling on agents to leave the state. It comes amid a cascade of jarring images from on the ground in Minneapolis,

as thousands of federal agents have surged the area amid the aftermath of ISIS shooting and

killing of Renee Nicole Good.

We've seen authorities pepper-spraying protesters in some cases in the face while they were

on the ground and apparently detained,

as you see right there. A U.S. citizens was detained at gunpoint and without a warrant,

and authorities led him out of his house in his underwear in the cold. He was later released

and is vowing to file a civil rights lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.

And a five-year-old boy, Liam Ramos, was taken into custody as he made his way home from

preschool, with school officials claiming ICE used the child as, quote, bait to arrest his asylum-seeking

father, Border Patrol, and ICE officials pushing back on that claim earlier today and

defending their tactics.

Did everything they could to reunite him with his family.

Tragically, when we approached the door of his residence, the people inside refused to take him in

and open the door.

Now, a lawyer for the boy's family says he's currently being held at a detention facility in San Antonio,

Texas with his father.

Meanwhile, the Minneapolis mayor saying today that what's happening in his city is no longer

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