Emily Kwong

It's Consider This from NPR.

NPR correspondent Meg Anderson has called Minneapolis home for several years.

And when thousands of immigration agents arrived in the city earlier this winter, she had to adapt to reporting on a major story that had all of a sudden made her familiar surroundings in many ways unfamiliar.

When we sat down for this week's Reporter's Notebook, I wanted to talk to Meg about what it's like to cover this story unfolding in her own community.

Yeah, forever, for a really long time.

How has that changed your approach to your job itself, this experience?

How has that changed how protesters or community activists, people you interview, responded to you when you reveal that, hey, I live here too?

The administration has seemed to pivot.

A little more than a week ago, they swapped out Border Patrol field leader Gregory Bovino for the White House immigration czar Tom Homan.

And on Wednesday, Holman reduced the number of immigration officers in Minneapolis, removing 700 of them after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants.

Meg, as we talk now, has this changed the situation on the ground?

So it's a step back from what is a heightened.

Meg, this situation is not over, but even so, what lessons from this month of reporting will you take with you on stories that you report far from home?

This episode was produced by Lina Muhammad and Matt Ozook.

It was edited by Adam Rainey.

Our executive producer is Sammy Yannigan.

It's Consider This.

I'm Emily Kwong.

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