00:0025 years in education. Never did I think that this would be America. Never did I think this
00:08would be, sorry, get a little emotional in my home. For Principal Mary Wenstrom, a normal
00:15school day no longer exists. Most of her students and their families are in hiding, fearful
00:22of being arrested by immigration officers. The highest priority is not just their safety
00:27but making sure that their families are able to be safe and fed. And I'm going to get this
00:31stuff. Dropping off food and clothing to 24 families and picking up some of their kids
00:37is now a daily routine. This is a large family, two families that live here. About 80% of her
00:46school are from immigrant backgrounds. Only a few are undocumented but having dark skin
00:52or a Latino or African last name makes them a target for ICE agents. At first like it's
00:59in the news and you think oh it's never going to come at our doorstep until it does. The
01:04Trump administration says at least 4,000 criminals have been arrested in Minnesota since Operation
01:11Metro Surge began. But many here find that difficult to believe when they've watched students be
01:17arrested in school parking lots and non-white colleagues be followed home by convoys of ICE
01:24agents. If ICE is spotted in the car park, the school goes into lockdown. Same as if there was
01:30an active shooter. Inside the terror that swept through this city shows as half-empty classrooms
01:37and silent hallways. About a third of the kids haven't come to school in over a month. My friends can't go to
01:44school because their parents and they are worried about being hurt and killed. I was born here and
01:51it's scary for me because my parents are African-American. They're from Liberia. Some have lost all
01:56contact with close friends. She said if I don't message you in a few days then I've probably me and
02:03my family have been taken by ICE most likely. This was maybe a few months ago and I haven't heard from
02:09her sense. It's going to be hard for people in Minneapolis to go back to normal after what they've
02:15seen in their city during the course of this operation. Many do not believe they'll see any real
02:22change in their lives until all federal officers are gone. There's a lot of trauma that's happening
02:29and so trauma you can't just say snap out of it obviously. This is going to take a lot of time of
02:36conversations and continuously building back better.
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