NPR News: 01-31-2026 5PM EST
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiyvone. |
| 0:04.7 | A federal judge has ordered the government to release a father and his five-year-old son, |
| 0:09.5 | who were taken into custody during the crackdown on immigration in a Minneapolis suburb last month. |
| 0:15.2 | Little Liam Conejo Ramos was detained by officers. |
| 0:18.5 | At the same time, his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, was arrested, |
| 0:22.2 | with both moved to an immigration detention center near San Antonio. At federal district court |
| 0:27.8 | for the Western District of Texas, Judge Fred Berry condemned what he called a perfidious lust for |
| 0:33.2 | unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty. A federal judge in Minnesota has declined to order |
| 0:39.2 | a halt to President Trump's immigration enforcement surge there. Kat-Lonstorf reports. Attorneys representing |
| 0:45.0 | Minnesota and the Twin Cities argued in court that the federal actions on the ground were causing, |
| 0:49.4 | quote, tremendous damage and asked the court to immediately halt the immigration surge with a |
| 0:53.5 | temporary restraining order. |
| 0:55.3 | U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, a President Biden appointee, denied that request while acknowledging |
| 1:00.4 | that the surge, quote, has had and will likely continue to have profound and even heartbreaking |
| 1:05.3 | consequences for the state of Minnesota. But she said that an injunction halting the operation |
| 1:10.0 | would go too far and harm the |
| 1:11.7 | federal government's efforts to enforce immigration laws. The operation has sent thousands of |
| 1:16.3 | immigration agents to the city, sparking weeks of protests and the killing of two U.S. citizens by |
| 1:21.0 | federal agents. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Minneapolis. Many parts of the U.S. are seeing wind-chill |
| 1:27.0 | temperatures in the single digits or even below zero this weekend. |
| 1:31.0 | And PR's Rebecca Hersher reports wind chill can be dangerous. Wind chill is basically how cold it feels outside when you combine the air temperature with wind. |
| 1:40.6 | It can cause frostbite and hypothermia. Dressing warmly can help protect people from wind chill conditions. |
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