"Just days before Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan formally announced that the Department of Homeland Security's deadly surge of thousands of armed and masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into their city would end, 1,600 Minnesotans had filled the cavernous Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis with the chorus of their singing resistance:"
"When the dawn came on Thursday, after more than two months of violence and cruelty-which included thousands of arrests, detentions and deportations, and the killing of poet and mother of three Renee Good and intensive care nurse Alex Pretti-Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey came as close as a Minnesotan can to declaring victory."
""They thought they could break us, but a love for our neighbors and a resolve to endure can outlast an occupation. These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that it's not just about resistance-standing with our neighbors is deeply American," said the mayor, who in January announced, "To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis!""
Minneapolis residents mounted sustained, peaceful resistance against a major federal immigration-enforcement surge into the city. Thousands of armed and masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents entered, prompting mass marches, thousands of arrests, detentions, deportations, and deadly violence including the killings of poet and mother of three Renee Good and intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti. Just days before Tom Homan announced the operation would end, 1,600 people filled Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis to sing in resistance. Mayor Jacob Frey credited the city's 435,000 residents, vowed a community comeback, emphasized support for immigrant residents, and called for ICE to leave. Advocates demand abolition of the agency and impeachment of Kristi Noem.
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