Minnesota State Senator: ‘[ICE] Harass People Who Are Just Driving Their Kid to Swim Lessons’

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QUADE: “Yeah, it’s almost indescribable what is happening on the ground because it looks different in every part of the state. There are tens of thousands of Minnesotans out constitutionally observing, there’s even more providing rides, hiding families, delivering food, buying groceries, taking to medical appointments. But what really happens is you have ICE, they idle outside of apartment buildings, they idle outside of bus stops. They go on to school property. They drive around recklessly through neighborhoods. They go into entire restaurants and try to detain workers. They harass people who are just driving their kid to swim lessons. It is indescribable how ever present they are in our state, in every community and how dangerously they act. And you could just be going about your daily life and encounter them. And that has not changed. Like, to date, I can tell you that is still happening. I had to leave my phone in another room to do this interview, because I’m still getting all the messages of where they are just in my own community, not in the entire state. So on the ground, it is still very hellish and it is very, very difficult. And we want to make sure that our neighbors stay safe and we will not breathe out until we actually see them leave, because right now they have not left.”