Elizabeth Kautz

People are afraid to leave their homes, to go to the grocery store, and might never return, and their children are left.

It is horrific.

Just ahead of the three-day conference, mayors released a statement calling for the Trump administration to end, quote, unnecessary chaos caused by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, a Republican who represents Burnsville, Minnesota, says residents are being harassed, intimidated, and cruelly treated.

Asked for a comment about the mayor's call to dial back ICE action, the White House pointed to remarks Monday by Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, who said Trump doesn't want to see people getting hurt or killed in the streets.

But she blamed Democrats for their, quote, deliberate and hostile resistance.

For NPR News, I'm Eve Zuckoff.