As the ICE crackdown continues, empathy lives and hope stays alive

By: O. Ricardo Pimentel

Outlets: Wisconsin Examiner

Published: February 3, 2026

Words: 770

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Gracias, Minnesota.

Gracias, America.

While Minnesota is where much of the resistance has been happening, my gratitude spills beyond its borders because the resistance has been virtually everywhere ICE brutality occurs.

Even before two citizens were killed by immigration authorities in Minneapolis recently, the country responded with a collective “ugh” to federal agents’ tactics.

It hasn’t escaped notice that this purge’s purpose, according to abundant evidence from the Trump administration, is to prevent the

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