On the Ground in Minnesota
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
4.8 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week Alex travels to Minneapolis to see first hand how the community is responding to the terrorizing presence of ICE and the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. She shines a light on the grassroots efforts of mothers mobilizing to help both students and teachers who fear being targeted, and speaks to Reverend Dan Johnson about how his congregation has been impacted as well the very un-Christian nature of this administration’s tactics. Then Alex sits down with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to talk about how President Trump’s rhetoric contributed to the attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, whether judicial interference can stop the federal government’s overreach, and why access to voter rolls is an issue at the center of this crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm rolling. |
| 0:02.0 | We're at the Minneapolis airport, which is where regular planes land, but it's also where |
| 0:07.0 | deportation planes take off. |
| 0:09.0 | About an hour ago, a bus left with people who have been charged with, I guess, violating |
| 0:17.0 | the terms of their entrance to the United States and are set to be deported. |
| 0:21.1 | And they are going to be brought here. |
| 0:23.0 | And then on one of these planes, one of the private chartered planes, they will be loaded on |
| 0:28.7 | in shackles and taken to who knows where, someplace where their lawyers can't get in touch |
| 0:34.8 | with them in all likelihood and their family has no idea where they are. |
| 0:38.1 | And it could be California or Oklahoma or Texas, |
| 0:40.9 | but this is where it happens. |
| 0:43.5 | And just because Greg Bovino isn't here anymore, |
| 0:47.6 | and Christy Noam is on the outs, |
| 0:50.7 | and Tom Homan is on his way in, |
| 0:52.4 | it doesn't mean that ICE's work in this state is finished and not by a long shot. |
| 0:58.8 | It's fucking cold. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello from Minneapolis. |
| 1:04.0 | And yes, it is fucking cold. |
| 1:06.3 | It is very, very, very cold here. |
| 1:08.9 | And it has been an extraordinary week. |
| 1:12.7 | On Saturday, Alex Prettie, an ICU nurse at a veterans hospital, was shot and killed |
| 1:17.7 | on the street by federal agents. |
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