Special Episode: Trump, ICE and cruelty on the streets of Minneapolis
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily and Lewis report from Minneapolis which has become the dark heart of President Trump's ICE agent immigration crackdown. We patrol the streets with ICE watchers - witnessing a raid alongside the patrollers literally sounding the alarm. We are at a far right rally - watching a January 6th insurrectionist get chased out of town. And we are with people from Somali and Latino communities who describe to us how their lives have been turned upside down by Trump's random and often lawless deportation plans.
Why Minneapolis? Why now? And could Trump really send the army to the streets of the city?
Later - Trump suggests he wants Greenland because he didn’t get given the Nobel peace prize. Yes, really. How will this work out for Europe and NATO?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:11.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | You think there's one right in front of us, size? |
| 0:16.2 | I'm good. The streets of Minneapolis are full of menace. |
| 0:30.6 | What you heard there was an early warning system, a small army of local people taking to the streets to warn people in this city |
| 0:42.1 | against the dangers from their own government. Ice agents on the streets taking people for detainment. |
| 0:50.3 | In a digital age, it's such an old-fashioned arcane response. It's a whistle blown by a person, |
| 0:58.0 | but it's a warning sign to an entire community that their lives might be in danger. We are in |
| 1:04.8 | Minneapolis. We are on the streets with ice, with immigrant communities, with the people |
| 1:10.2 | whose lives have been turned upside down. |
| 1:13.1 | And the stories we're going to tell you today are in part chilling and in part an extraordinary |
| 1:18.0 | response from those who live there. |
| 1:20.6 | Welcome to the Newsagents from Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. |
| 1:29.4 | The News Agents. |
| 1:31.1 | It's Emily in the capital, D.C. |
| 1:33.0 | And it's Lewis in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. |
| 1:35.0 | And later, we're going to be joined by John, who's in London, talking Greenland and Stalmers' |
| 1:40.7 | response to that latest threat from Donald Trump. |
| 1:43.9 | But first, we are going to start with Minneapolis. |
| 1:46.1 | Emily and I have spent the weekend in a very, very cold, very, very cold Minneapolis. |
| 1:51.0 | About minus 20, minus 20 here at the moment. |
| 1:53.9 | But that has not stopped. |
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