Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning.
Chapter 2: What is causing the ICE surge in Minneapolis?
The ICE surge in Minneapolis is fueling more protests and clashes.
We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.
The Venezuelan opposition leader has handed over her Nobel medal to Trump, but it doesn't seem to have swayed him to support her. And why soccer fans around the globe aren't happy about World Cup ticket prices in the U.S.
It's a complete scam. Fans are being fleeced for basic tickets and it's not good enough.
It's Friday, January 16th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today.
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Chapter 3: How are local communities responding to ICE enforcement?
As federal and local leaders continue to trade blame, protests continue in Minneapolis. The Washington Post's video reporting shows enforcement agents firing bursts of what appears to be tear gas as demonstrators shout and throw things at them. On Wednesday night, a Venezuelan man was shot and injured by a federal agent.
The Department of Homeland Security said their officers were reacting to being attacked as they attempted to make an arrest. Right now, there's close to 3,000 federal agents in Minnesota, as the Trump administration expands its presence there. Heavily armed agents have been reported forcibly entering houses, pulling over a school bus, and seizing people at work.
The ACLU has now sued the government, accusing it of indiscriminately targeting Somali and Latino communities without probable cause. Yesterday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry repeated his call for ICE to leave.
This is not sustainable.
Chapter 4: What happened during the meeting between Trump and Maria Corina Machado?
This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in. And at the same time, we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order.
But Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has promised to continue the surge and defended the operation to reporters.
Every single action that our ICE officers take is according to the law and following protocols that we have used for years, that this administration has used, that the previous administration used. They are doing everything correctly.
Meanwhile, President Trump has, not for the first time, threatened to invoke the centuries-old Insurrection Act, which enables the president to deploy the military on U.S. soil. In response to the surge, some local groups have begun tracking the movements of federal agents.
Chapter 5: Why are World Cup ticket prices controversial in the U.S.?
Madison McVean is a reporter with the Minnesota Reformer.
The idea behind a rapid response network is that when people see an ICE raid happening, they can alert other members of the network so that they can all respond, inform people of their rights, warn neighbors, and protest ICE.
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.
The observers continued following that vehicle until it came to a stop in a parking lot and the observers parked nearby. Then the ICE vehicle backed up and blocked in the observer's car. The agents got out of the vehicle. They came up to the car and told the observers, stop following us. This is your first warning.
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.
It seems like the ICE agents aren't doing these big protracted raids anymore. They're getting in and out quickly before people have a chance to respond. So in response, these people that are in rapid response networks have shifted to more of a proactive approach. They're following ICE vehicles around, filming them, and basically trying to discourage them from making arrests in the first place.
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.
We're seeing people escort immigrant workers, teachers, restaurant employees to and from work to make sure they arrive safely. Lots of immigrant families are sheltering in place right now because they don't feel that it's safe to go outside. So churches and other community organizations are gathering donations of food, things to do indoors for kids.
I think Rene Good's killing, really, rather than scaring people away from doing this work, has brought more people to it.
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Chapter 6: What actions has the ACLU taken against ICE's tactics?
There are various ways that you can distribute a scarce resource, and basically FIFA has chosen to have two filters. One is a lottery, so random luck. They did two lotteries in the fall, and then they are currently doing their biggest one. And the other way they are distributing this resource is with prices.
And those prices are far higher than any previous World Cup, costing hundreds of dollars, with the final running well into the thousands. Now, FIFA says it's a nonprofit and it reinvests the money it makes into promoting and developing the game around the world. But the decision has still generated a worldwide backlash from fans in other countries more accustomed to double-digit U.S.
dollar prices. Take soccer-mad Scotland. The country is appearing at the World Cup for the first time in nearly 30 years, and they're so excited that their government declared a national holiday to mark the first game. But the ticket costs have enraged fans, even becoming a political issue. Speaking to the BBC, Scottish lawmakers like Anas Sarwar have been demanding action against FIFA.
It has to be stopped because this is a deliberate fleecing, not just of Scotland fans, but actually fans from every nation that's represented in that World Cup.
I'm sure FIFA knew all along that the prices would be controversial because they were going to be so much higher than previously. And because American people... are much more accustomed to paying premium prices for sports tickets than the rest of the world. And so there was always going to be some sort of issue here that got people talking inevitably.
And that, Bushnell reports, illustrates a pretty wide cultural divide between fans in the U.S. and fans abroad.
It's two very different visions of what sport is and what sport should be. In the US, it is thought of as entertainment, as a commercial product that you can seek out, as an experience that you can seek out and buy. And so the conversation about ticket prices often comes down to supply and demand.
Whereas in Europe, especially, and also other parts of the world, sport is more seen as like a public good. And like these teams... are seen as community institutions that shouldn't just be treating their fans as customers.
Bushnell says a lot could have been done to keep ticket prices affordable for a common fan, but so far this seems to be working out in FIFA's favor, given that 500 million people apply to purchase tickets.
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