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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome says federal agents |
| 0:22.2 | deployed to Minneapolis will wear body cameras effective immediately. In a statement on social media, |
| 0:27.6 | she says the program will be expanded nationwide as funding becomes available. The move comes |
| 0:32.7 | after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens during President Trump's immigration |
| 0:37.3 | crackdown in Minnesota. |
| 0:39.3 | Bystander video has been an important part of documenting agents' actions. Meanwhile, immigration |
| 0:44.5 | agents in Minnesota have arrested more than 100 refugees, despite their legal status. NPR's |
| 0:50.1 | Jennifer Ludden reports it's part of a larger administration plan to re-examine refugee cases. |
| 0:55.3 | When ICE agents arrested one 20-year-old refugee, his mother says she felt the same fear her family had fled in Venezuela. |
| 1:05.0 | Their massed paramilitary groups kidnap people, she says. |
| 1:08.7 | She did not want to use her name for fear of retaliation. |
| 1:11.9 | The Trump administration says it's reviewing refugee cases for potential fraud. But Jane Gropman, |
| 1:18.3 | with the International Institute of Minnesota, says they are already intensely vetted. |
| 1:23.1 | You know, the FBI's already checked them. They've had biometric screenings. Many have been detained in Texas, then released with no charges. |
| 1:30.6 | A class action lawsuit calls arresting refugees unlawful, and a judge has ordered them stopped while the case plays out. |
| 1:37.2 | Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Minneapolis. |
| 1:39.6 | President Trump is urging House Republicans to back a spending package that passed the Senate last week. |
| 1:45.2 | The measure would fund most of the government and keep the Homeland Security Department funded |
| 1:49.1 | through next week. Trump said on social media that, quote, there can be no changes at this time. |
| 1:55.1 | Democrats are demanding reforms to immigration enforcement after the fatal shootings in Minneapolis. |
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