""You'll be driving down 280 and a very large pickup truck will be going 75 miles per hour, bobbing and weaving through the cars, and you just know that's someone who's headed to detain someone,""
""My constituents, our communities, our neighbors are still in hiding, and the story is really becoming that people aren't accessing healthcare now for 2 months. People aren't paying their rent... The long-term effects of having people being in hiding, unable to care for their families, unable to receive therapy, go to the doctor, take your children to the doctor, the impacts of that are going to be generational.""
The streets of Minneapolis are eerily quiet, with restaurants closed and shops emptied as many residents avoid leaving their properties or putting out trash. Large pickup trucks speed through neighborhoods, signaling detentions by enforcement agents. Operation Metro Surge arrived in the city about three months after similar actions in Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles; a demotion of a border patrol commander and modest reduction in agents did not stop ongoing detentions. Many people have remained in hiding, avoided healthcare and therapy for weeks, and fallen behind on rent. The resulting inability to access medical care and support risks long-term, generational harms. Rep. Leigh Finke has publicly opposed the surge.
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