Nada Tawfiq
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the arrival of immigration enforcement officers was not going to help keep the city safer, that it was only going to sow fear and chaos because it was going to pit the community against federal agents.
And not just that, that federal agents weren't cooperating with state officials.
And so despite the kind of
efforts of officials last night to tell residents, if you aren't peaceful, you're really playing and taking the bait of the Trump administration because they want to use that as a reason to further militarize Minneapolis.
That's what the officials here in Minneapolis believe would happen.
Despite that, I think there is another fear, which is
If ICE doesn't leave the city, and by all indications, Christine O.M.
is saying they will get to those 2,000 ICE agents in the Twin Cities, then what happens?
It's not just the fear of protests, but it's also the fear of more incidents like these happening.
Neda Tofik in Minneapolis.