Meg Anderson

That they – there's still more federal agents on the ground than there were before goods killing.

Yeah.

And –

It's a step back, but it's like not there's still there's as many as there were.

There's more than there were then at the very beginning of the surge at the beginning of December.

Tom Holman's rhetoric is more calm for sure than like Gregory Bovino, who was in charge before him.

But it isn't it's it feels way too early, I think, to say if it's going to cause any sort of real change for people living here.

Yeah, I mean, I like to think that I knew this already, but...

I am one of the parachuting in reporters sometimes, right?

And I just want, I do think I already knew this, but it's just like this continued reminder of like, when you go to a place and you report, it is like happening so deeply to the people that you are reporting on.

And it is so vivid and that it, and it doesn't go away when you go back home and write your stories and you're there for, you know, a week or a couple of days or whatever, like,

just continuing to remember like it's still happening to those people it is like at the very very center of their lives and I do think I knew that but I think it's just that much more vivid now well we really appreciate your reporting and everything you're doing and thank you for it yeah well you're welcome and thank you for thanks for having me on and to talk about it

Organizers of the protests and economic blackout are demanding that immigration officers leave the state.

For more than two weeks, people in the Twin Cities have been on edge as officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, escalate aggressive tactics against Minnesotans.

Martha Bardwell, a Minneapolis pastor, is participating in the day's events.

Community members have also been coordinating a massive network of resistance, delivering food to people afraid to leave their homes, standing guard outside schools, and loudly alerting the neighborhood when federal agents are nearby.

Meg Anderson, NPR News.

There's a general strike.

Organizers are encouraging community members to stay home from work, to not shop or dine out.

Many local businesses will be closed.