00:00Community leaders and health care workers are expressing outrage after they say ICE agents were allowed inside a Minneapolis hospital
00:07for more than 24 hours.
00:08They claim that agents even handcuffed a patient to their bed, all without a valid warrant.
00:14Jason Rantala is outside Hennepin Health Care right now and he joins us with more on what happened. Jason?
00:20Yeah, Emilio, community organizers say ICE agents were allowed to stay by that patient's bedside for more than 24 hours.
00:28But earlier today, frontline health care workers and lawmakers gathered outside the hospital here, demanding change.
00:36Over the holiday, leaders with UnidosMN say ICE agents got into HCMC's emergency department without a judicial warrant.
00:44They say those agents were given access to staff-only areas like break rooms and parking lots.
00:50Unidos tells us ICE was confronted and removed from HCMC, but that was more than 24 hours later.
00:56State Representative Ayesha Gomez says this is how that all went down.
01:01Our Hennepin County commissioners worked with leadership of the hospital, including the leadership of security,
01:09established that there was no judicial warrant and told them that they had to leave and they left.
01:15This is an individual with a high medical risk, that that individual, if he was detained, he could have lost
01:23his life.
01:25In a written statement online, Hennepin Health Care acknowledged the incident, saying the agents, quote,
01:29adhere to our established processes and they left after security asked for documentation to support their continued presence.
01:37Unidos is demanding hospitals like HCMC adopt clear protocols when it comes to ICE.
01:42Hennepin Health Care says their protocols already follow that guidance.
01:47DHS, we reached out to them.
01:48They have not responded or provided a comment to us on this incident.
01:53Amelia.
01:53All right.
01:54Jason, thank you.
