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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dualisa Kautel. Elected officials in Minnesota are calling for continued peaceful protest following the fatal shooting of a second person in Minneapolis during what the Trump administration calls an immigration enforcement effort. As Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports, the state's National Guard is now assisting local law enforcement.
The Department of Homeland Security claims that an immigration officer killed Alex Preddy in self-defense after the 37-year-old approached with a handgun. But witness video shows a group of agents struggling with Preddy and knocking him to the ground before one opens fire. It's unclear from the video whether Preddy attempted to use the firearm in his possession. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE is responsible for two of the city's three homicides this year. The chaos that we are seeing is caused directly by ICE, border control, and this federal administration. Preddy had a permit to carry a firearm. He was an intensive care nurse and had no criminal record. For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
A prominent immigration lawyer says a disturbance broke out Saturday at the South Texas ICE detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from Minneapolis was being detained. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports.
Immigration attorney Eric Lee was at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Dilley, Texas, about 70 miles south of San Antonio. He says guards ordered him to leave because there was a mass protest happening at the detention center.
Guards started to shout, everybody out, everybody out. There's been an incident. So I left and walked out. And as I was walking back to my car, I heard what sounded like hundreds of children shouting.
Lee spoke to a client afterwards who told him the protest was triggered by the treatment of Liam Ramos. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio.
The biggest winter storm in years has already cut power to more than 100,000 people in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
What are the recent developments in the Minneapolis shooting incident?
NPR's Frank Morris reports.
Debilitating ice, possibly up to an inch thick, is expected to sweep from Louisiana across Mississippi into Tennessee before striking the Carolinas. It brings back bad memories for people living in the Mississippi Delta, some of whom lost power for a month in an ice storm there three decades ago. Janice Kitchens, who teaches in a rural district south of Clarksdale, Mississippi, says her students can't afford a long outage.
It's all fun and games when you have everything you need at home. But a week or two without food or without proper food or enough, it could mean life or death.
Kitchen says resilience is a prerequisite for living in the Delta, but she's hoping her community misses the brunt of the storm. Frank Morris, NPR News, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And this is NPR News from New York City. There's muted reaction from Canadian leaders to President Trump's latest tariff threats. From Toronto, Dan Karpinchuk reports.
Referring to Prime Minister Mark Carney as governor and threatening a 100% tariff against Canada for its growing ties with China, Trump accused Carney of trying to turn Canada into a drop-off port for Chinese exports into the U.S. A week ago, Trump appeared to be in favor of the Ottawa-Beijing deal, but in the wake of Davos and Carney's support of Greenland's sovereignty, Trump lashed out. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says there is no free trade agreement being pursued with China and that Ottawa remains focused on Canada-U.S. relations. And some provincial premiers say they stand with Carney in building Canada's economy.
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