Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Faced with mounting public anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, federal immigration officials are disputing accounts that their agents targeted a five-year-old. Senior ICE official Marcos Charles said during a news conference today that officers were targeting the child's father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, earlier this week.
Arias fled from law enforcement officers and left his child behind.
Chapter 2: What recent events have sparked protests in Minnesota regarding ICE operations?
Again, middle of winter, in a car. We will enforce the law as it's written, but we will go above and beyond to reunite families because that is who we are.
Charles says a father and son are together at an immigration facility pending immigration proceedings. Local officials paint a different picture, adding that the child was among four minors detained recently. The Twin Cities region has been seeing daily protests since an ICE agent fatally shot Rene Good, whose death is now under investigation.
This hour, many Minnesotans are staging mass protests they've described as an economic blackout. Clergy, labor unions, grassroots organizers and many businesses are taking part. despite below zero temps. More than a dozen governors have declared states of emergency in anticipation of the extreme winter weather expected over the next few days.
Samuel King with the New York Public News Network reports they're urging residents to finalize preparations.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul says parts of the state, including New York City and Long Island, could see 12 to 18 inches of snow. The state also faces some of the coldest temperatures seen in years, so Hochul says people should hunker down and stay off the roads. Top of mind for her is the December 2022 snowstorm in western New York, which killed more than 40 people.
That's what I'm trying to prevent is always reminding people that hypothermia can settle in quickly, frostbite can settle in, and that's something that maybe a lot of people in other parts of our state aren't even aware of.
Hochul says state employees will work remotely on Monday and is asking private employers to do the same. For NPR News, I'm Samuel King in Albany.
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is extending its investigation into abuses in Iran. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
The UN's top human rights official Volker Turk says the killing on the streets of Iran may have subsided, but as he puts it, the brutality continues.
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