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Madison McVean is a reporter with the Minnesota Reformer.

This mirrors similar groups we've seen pop up in places like Los Angeles and Chicago.

McVan recently went on one of these community patrols in Minneapolis with two observers who decided to follow a truck with ICE agents inside.

McVean told us that the increased attention on immigration action has meant that ICE has shifted their strategy slightly from what we saw in Chicago and in L.A.

last year.

McVean told us her observations have led her to believe that people in the community are more galvanized than ever to support their immigrant neighbors.

ICE did not respond to the reformers' requests for comment.

Venezuela's Nobel Prize-winning opposition leader was at the White House yesterday.

Hoping to rally Trump behind her cause, Maria Corina Machado told reporters after she had come with a gift.

A White House official confirmed to ABC that Trump accepted the medal, though even if it now sits on the Oval Office mantelpiece, the Nobel Committee has underscored that the honor itself is non-transferable.

For Machado, she said the meeting had gone very well, but it appears she still has some persuading to do, as the White House reiterated their position yesterday that Machado doesn't have the support to lead a post-Maduro Venezuela.

Vera Bergen-Gruen is a national security reporter with The Wall Street Journal and was covering the exchange.

Instead of backing her, the White House is messaging that it has a cooperative relationship with the current leader of Venezuela, Delce Rodriguez, who was Maduro's vice president.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said Trump likes what he's seeing.

Rodriguez gave her first State of the Union address to the country yesterday, where she outlined what sorts of changes could come to the state-owned oil industry.

Oil remains a key part of why Trump thinks he can work with Rodriguez.

But Bergen-Gruen told us the extent of the relationship so far has been surprising.

As Trump has expressed uncertainty about Machado, a number of Florida Republicans who represent a state with the largest Venezuelan population in the United States have said that the opposition leader has their backing.

That includes Senator Rick Scott, who was asked about it on Capitol Hill yesterday and said that he disagreed with Trump's assessment.

As for Machado, Bergen-Gruen said she's on a bit of a campaign to make her case and get more visibility.