Francisco Segovia

Thank you.

Thank you for having me here.

It is a scary moment for thousands of families in Minnesota.

We see ICE agents all over the city driving their cars, stopping people, and we see people chasing them as well.

people whistling, alerting others that ICE is present.

A lot of videos of ICE arresting people and people crying, windows, cars' windows being broken.

So it is like, I will say, being in the, maybe in the middle of a civil war where people are running.

Yesterday, for instance, right outside my office, we saw a woman running,

I think she was telling businesses to close doors because ICE was around.

And we all from the office ran out, put our vest to see what was happening.

And right immediately ICE came to the corner, stopped the vehicle and arrested two people.

That's what we are going through right now.

It depends.

If there is a march, hundreds or thousands of people will show up.

But when there is an ICE action, what we have noticed, for instance, yesterday,

A lot of people get out of their houses.

And so people just get out of their houses, get into the street and become present and to begin chanting things like shame and, I mean, in just a matter of minutes.

you can see 30, 50, 100 people coming to witness and chant and say various things to ICE agents.

COPAL stands for Communities Organizing Power and Action for Latinos.

We came about in 2018.