'Testing Grounds': How the U.S.-Mexico Border and Honduras Help Explain Immigration Enforcement Today
Latino USA
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4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What started decades ago at the U.S.-Mexico border didn’t stay there.
Journalist, author, and professor Jean Guerrero speaks with Maria Hinojosa and argues that communities on the southern border were a “testing ground” for the increased immigration enforcement that we’re seeing play out across U.S. cities. Jean also makes the case that Honduras may be the next laboratory for something called “startup cities” which could be replicated here.
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| 0:14.1 | We're proud Boricuas. |
| 0:15.6 | And what does that mean? |
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| 0:33.1 | This is La Brega Campeones. |
| 0:42.6 | Listen early and ad-free with Futudo Plus. The Trump administration has begun to pull most immigration officers out of Minnesota after immense protest and backlash. |
| 0:51.3 | There are under 500 ICE agents remaining in Minnesota. That's off of the |
| 1:00.3 | 3,000 surge that we saw here. Minnesota was one of the latest states to have hundreds of |
| 1:07.5 | ICE and Border Patrol agents descending onto its streets. |
| 1:11.6 | It was the largest immigration enforcement deployment in U.S. history, |
| 1:15.6 | and it reached a tipping point when two people were shot dead by federal agents. |
| 1:23.3 | There was Renee Maclin Good. |
| 1:25.4 | Renee Good was a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three who moved to Minnesota just last year. |
| 1:32.4 | And Alex Prattie. |
| 1:34.2 | Alex Prattie was 37 years old. |
| 1:37.1 | He worked as an ICU nurse taking care of critically ill patients at the Minneapolis VA medical center. And months before them, |
| 1:47.3 | in Chicago, Silberio Gillas-Gonzales was also gunned down. Breaking news out of the Chicago |
| 1:54.1 | area, Homeland Security officials say an ICE operation left an enforcement officer severely injured |
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