Lower Thirds:

0:03	Report by | Janelle Dumalaon
0:55	Bob Rice | Cafe Owner
1:49	James Cook | Civil Rights 
2:33	Ryan Van Wagener | Protestor

Script: 

In the Twin Cities,  ICE is everywhere. 

And everyday, a deluge of headlines. The detention of a five year old. An internal memo authorizing ICE officers to enter homes without a judge’s warrant. A court suspending a decision barring federal officers from using tear gas against peaceful protesters.

The federal surge is reshaping these cities in Minnesota - and the daily lives of the people who live in them.

Bob Rice’s Pow Wow Grounds has morphed from a beloved local cafe and gallery into a support center, collecting donations for delivery to families too afraid of ICE to leave their homes — as well as feeding and supplying volunteers watching out for ICE and warning their neighbours. 

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+++Bob Rice, Cafe Owner+++
Okay. This stuff here, we use it for observers. We have first aid kits and hand warmers, foot warmers, hats and gloves and things like that.  We have food here. We have different soups to give to anyone that comes in here

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And there’s also legal advice to be had there. James Cook is a civil rights lawyer who has spent the last weeks giving pro bono legal aid to ICE detainees and protestors. 

((JAMES TAKES CALL))

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JAMES: This is James Cook. This is James Cook. How can I help you? 

((My husband is currently at the Whipple Building.))

JAMES: What's going on?

((He's being held by ICE.))

He drives over to the Whipple Building everyday - the downtown federal hub for ICE operations that’s at the center of protests over immigration enforcement. He tries to find detainees, or find out if they have been moved to other detention centers around the country.

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+++SOT James Cook, Civil Rights Lawyer+++
I was trying to locate people. Everybody we found, they were in another location, right? El Paso, Texas, Fort Bliss, Camp, Montana. Then somebody was in another part of Minnesota. Then we had another guy. I don't know. I mean, they're in different places. 

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He’s not actually able to get anyone out - but hopes that being able to track down detainees helps their loved ones figure out their next steps. And so he keeps returning. 
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And he’s far from the only one.  Demonstrators have gathered here every day too - despite freezing weather.. And ever more of them have their own experiences with federal agents. Ryan said he was briefly detained after sitting on the road to try and restrict ICE vehicles from coming and going. 

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+++Ryan Van Wagener, Protestor+++
They held me in the holding cells for a while, and then when they let me back out, they kept my phone as evidence, but so they threw me back out here at 1:30 in the morning. I didn't have my glasses, I didn't have my phone 
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But despite his experience, he says as long as ICE is here, then he has to be too. 

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+++Ryan Van Wagener, Protestor+++
 “Yeah, I every day, while I'm on the train here, my heart is pounding, but like, just because I'm scared doesn't mean I'm not going to keep coming out here and protesting.
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Elsewhere in the city are various reminders that residents are as active in the streets as the federal agents are. Like these neighborhood patrollers, watching out for ICE on many street corners. 

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++++SHORT VOX POP FROM ICE WATCH PATROLLER IN THE GREEN JACKET ++
“Out in the neighbourhood, just trying to keep eyes, keep each other safe.I am going to keep doing that, I live here,  this is my home." 
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Or fathers dropping off distance learning materials for children staying home to steer clear of ICE.

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+++SHORT VOX POP of REMOTE LEARNING GUY+++
we take them to the kids, so they can keep learning in a safe environment.”
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And another volunteer, 

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++++SHORT SOT of Mike++++
Canned goods, canned beans, rice…
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He’s delivering groceries on the doorstep of a migrant family in hiding. 

ICE may be everywhere. But so are the people mounting a resistance to them. And in this stand-off, neither side is blinking…with the federal government doubling down, and many locals digging in, the endgame is uncertain. 

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