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Brittany Packnett Cunningham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
571 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

I want us to understand that people are being pulled from their cars as they're driving to drop their kids off to school or driving from dropping their kids off from school, indiscriminate of who those people are.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Because plenty of those people have been U.S.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

citizens.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Plenty of those people have been green card holders.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

And I want to be really clear, even if those people aren't documented, nobody should be terrorized like this.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

I want us to understand that ICE is tracking the license plates of anybody engaged in any kind of activity.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

So if you are dropping off hot meals, they're tracking your license plate.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

If you are walking children to and from school to make sure that they do not end up like five-year-old Liam, they are tracking your license plate.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

If you are showing up at a meeting of clergy members and faith leaders, they are tracking your license plate.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

And they are doing this while driving around in vehicles that do not have license plates.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

ICE's vehicles are unmarked.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

But everyday citizens of Minnesota, because it's happening across the entire state, their license plates are being tracked.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Philando Castile was murdered after being pulled over for supposedly having a light bulb out on his car.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

But ICE gets to drive around with masks on, no badges, no identification, and no license plates.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Meanwhile, they're tracking activists and organizers at parents' license plates.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

We're talking in Minneapolis about a city of 300,000 people.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

And what's been reported is that 10,000 of those people have been disappeared.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

10,000 of those people have been kidnapped.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

10,000 families who just woke up one day and their family was gone, who went to work and who came back and the family was broken, who dropped their child off from school and they could not pick them up.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

That's a lot of people in a city of 300,000.