Quill Lawrence

Thousands gathered outside the Manhattan VA hospital, filling the sidewalk between massive snow banks.

Hundreds of Freddie's colleagues at the Minneapolis VA held a memorial earlier this week, despite an email from that VA's director saying she had been told to postpone it.

At the New York City vigil, a VA nurses union official asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.

The Trump administration has blamed Preddy's death on Minnesota officials for failing to cooperate with ICE.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

A U.S.

official who is not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed to NPR that an Army military police battalion stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has received a prepare-to-deploy order from Minnesota.

That's in addition to the 1,500 soldiers with the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Alaska told last week to ready themselves to support the Trump administration's massive ICE deployment in the Twin Cities.

Protests have continued in Minneapolis for two weeks since an ICE agent shot to death Renee Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

The Trump administration is not investigating the shooting, but has opened investigations into Democratic Minnesota government officials for allegedly blocking federal immigration enforcement.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

A U.S.

official who is not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed to NPR that an Army military police battalion stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has received a prepare-to-deploy order from Minnesota.

That's in addition to the 1,500 soldiers with the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Alaska told last week to ready themselves to support the Trump administration's massive ICE deployment in the Twin Cities.

Protests have continued in Minneapolis for two weeks since an ICE agent shot to death Renee Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

The Trump administration is not investigating the shooting, but has opened investigations into Democratic Minnesota government officials for allegedly blocking federal immigration enforcement.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

Camp Asalia has housed more than a thousand Afghans since the chaotic U.S.

withdrawal from Kabul in 2021.

Many say they can't return home because they helped American forces during the war and would face reprisals by the ruling Taliban.