Sergio Martinez Beltran

Another thing that's clear, many people in Minneapolis do not want ICE around.

And it's starting to seem like residents are more defiant, willing to protest more.

We've already seen federal agents use pepper spray and tear gas to call some of these protests.

So the escalation in enforcement and protests is something I'll be paying attention to.

You're welcome.

There are more than 2,000 immigration agents here.

And you can see them driving in unmarked cars.

You can also see residents following them and alerting the community that ICE is around.

I have witnessed some of these operations.

In one of them, immigration agents stopped at a parking lot and asked people charging their electric cars for proof of immigration status.

All of the drivers were people of color and all of them had proof.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Minneapolis.

Right now, there are more than 2,000 federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

That's three times the size of the Minneapolis Police Department.

This week, more Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents are expected to come to the state to help carry out President Trump's crackdown on immigration.

Multiple residents in Minneapolis neighborhoods told NPR they've seen ICE agents going door to door.

Vice President J.D.

Vance in a recent news conference said agents were doing this to find, quote, criminal illegal aliens.

ICE in the past has focused on targeted arrests, so all of this is highly unusual, but this is all part of the Trump administration's effort to deport millions from the U.S.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Minneapolis.