Barack Obama Praises Minneapolis Residents for Uniting Together Amid ICE Operations: They Set a Moral Example

‘It created an awareness’

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OBAMA: "But the people of Minneapolis. Mobilized themselves. Organize themselves in pretty harrowing situations, and it’s bitter cold and If you have neighbors setting up committees and systems to deliver groceries to families and to document what was happening and when people had been detained, oftentimes, mistakenly or falsely they be. There are these detention centers, because the middle of winter, in there, they had been snatched that without a coat and citizens organize themselves to be at those detention center, so that when people were released after being incorrectly help, somebody was there with a coat. And a ride for them home. And, what that did was: oh, it. It it created. An awareness. And- and they set a moral example. We’re by even people who. Wanted, tougher immigration enforcement looked at. That’s why we didn’t mean that that’s not that’s, not war! We’re talking about. And, so that that’s a recent example that we see of. Of, the of the power of the citizenry. And sometimes. It doesn’t always work, but you keep at it. And, that’s where my faith comes in is: is that thing them of human spirit when it’s activated in citizens, even at very local levels,. It it did it wakes up other people’s consciousness"

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Barack Obama Praises Minneapolis Residents for Uniting Together Amid ICE Operations: They Set a Moral Example