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The Daily

On the Front Line of Minnesota’s Fight With ICE

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For weeks, protests around Minneapolis have caught nationwide attention as the city shows open defiance to a federal immigration crackdown. But behind the scenes, a quieter organized resistance has taken shape. Anna Foley and Michael Simon Johnson, producers for “The “Daily,” go on the ground in Minneapolis to capture that effort, and Charles Homans, a New York Times reporter, explains why the city has become ground zero in the fight over the government’s deportation strategy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

0:05.8

I'm out now.

0:08.0

I'm out now.

0:10.1

I'm out now.

0:12.3

For weeks, protests around Minneapolis have caught nationwide attention, as the city shows open defiance to a federal immigration crackdown.

0:21.4

But our immigrant neighbors are under attack.

0:24.3

What do we do?

0:25.4

We're not going to be.

0:27.3

But behind the scenes, a quieter, organized resistance has taken shape.

0:33.2

Today, our producers, Anna Foley, and Michael Simon Johnson,

0:37.4

go on the ground in Minneapolis to capture that effort.

0:40.8

And our colleague Charles Holman's explains why the city has become ground zero

0:45.2

in the fight over the government's deportation strategy.

0:58.2

It's Wednesday, January 21st. This is Michael

0:59.4

21st.

1:05.0

This is Michael Simon Johnson.

1:09.4

I'm here with New York Times reporter Charlie Homans, and we are,

1:14.4

what neighborhood are we in, actually? So this is the Lynn Lake area of Minneapolis. We're in

1:19.3

South Minneapolis, and it's named after this intersection that we're standing at, actually,

1:23.2

which is Lindale Avenue and Lake Street. It's kind of the place where sort of the recent waves of immigrants and settled refugees

1:29.5

and the Minneapolis of the kind of white liberal urban culture intersect.

1:35.7

And those groups have been kind of have been brought together in an interesting way

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