Anna Connelly
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You could be in a neighborhood where you're like, everything's normal.
Like, I don't see any of this versus you're in a neighborhood where you're literally seeing ice running through your yard, you know, chasing people.
So our volunteers, it's literally just watching, right?
They have like their vests and they have their whistles, whatever, and they're just ready to call and get everyone inside immediately.
There's, I can't remember if it's Brooklyn Park or Brooklyn Center, but in a suburb,
where if you guys saw the news article about two women were detained and they ended up saving one of the agents because he was having a seizure.
Did you see this?
Okay, you need to read that article because it's insane and just shows how untrained these people are because this man in the passenger seat starts having a seizure and the other agents have no idea what to do.
And the women who've been detained save his life.
So where that was, I can't remember which city it was, but there's tons of ICE agents there.
It's a large Latino population and they've been just, you know,
It's what we all know, right?
They're at schools, they're in hospitals, they're at these places where all the criminals are.
And it's like, well, no, you're just attacking like hardworking parents.
So they're the parents I know have been literally like getting in a line around the school and they'll like line up to the front door so that people are just walking through.
So, yeah, it's been crazy.
But I think it was like November.
I'm trying to think because I have a that's the other thing, right, is is even people who are not even immigrants are terrified if you just have brown skin.
I have a friend who was adopted from Columbia.
She has white parents.