Emily Witt
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And I think many people have said, well, he's not exactly been a moderate voice in Trump's administration.
I think that's true.
Yeah, I don't think they're dialing it back.
You know, our photographer was out yesterday and saw two immigrants get detained.
They're talking about building more permanent housing at Fort Snelling to house the people that are stationed here.
You know, they're changing their tactics up.
They're using smaller vehicles.
It doesn't feel like it's stopping.
They may be changing the rhetoric and bringing in slightly less flamboyant people to lead things, but...
I don't know how this sustains itself in the long term, but on either side, though, because there's a lot of... It's just the city, you know, people aren't working, people are staying home, people aren't going to the doctor, they aren't going to school.
The city's really been in a state of emergency now for weeks, and it's exhausting, and people are really tired.
They're saying something between 2,500 and 3,000 were the last numbers that I heard as of mid-January.
I mean, that's where we have a lot of journalism still left to do.
I think people here, the reports are people here are being taken and then sent very quickly out of state.
It seems like most often to Texas where, you know, if somebody knows they're detained, they can file a habeas petition and, you know, try to get them out.
an actual hearing.
But from what I'm hearing, the conditions are really terrible.
It's really cold there.
The food is bad, all of that.
And so people are...