Charles Homans

And so there was a very palpable sense there that anybody could

be a target who was an immigrant or even ethnically Latino or otherwise not white.

I think that what is different in Minneapolis is that there is a more pervasive sense that not just could anybody in those categories be a target, but that there's a good chance that those people will be a target.

Because it's a small city, non-white people here tend to be very visible because it is a heavily white city.

And there are just so many federal agents here.

And so there's a sense of real vulnerability that feels different from other places where these federal raids have happened.

But I think the extent of what's happened so far and the uncertainty about what could happen from here has led a lot of people to ask themselves these real questions about how far they're willing to go in the response efforts here.

You know, I've talked to people who have said, like, am I going to need to start hiding people in a spare room in my house?

I mean, those are questions that people are seriously asking themselves and each other right now.

And there is a real sense that this is an important moment in history that's unfolding and how people respond to it does have the ability to kind of direct, you know, which direction history goes from here.

Thanks for having me.