00:00The streets in Minneapolis are quiet and empty, but it doesn't have anything to do with the snowy winter weather.
00:08Even inside, in this shopping mall, customers are nowhere to be seen.
00:13Recently, business owners here have said that the ice presence in town has scared away their customers.
00:19A lot of employees don't want to come to work.
00:22Some vendors don't even bother opening their shop because they don't expect any customers.
00:27People who used to have 15 to 20 customers coming in in an hour say now they're lucky to have just one.
00:35Others are struggling to make rent, having to pull together funds.
00:39Immigrants, but also U.S. citizens from minorities, are afraid of meeting the same fate as hundreds of others
00:46who have been arrested by immigration officers in recent months.
00:50The fatal shooting of Rene Good by an ICE agent in early January further increased tension and fear in the population.
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