For Minneapolis residents, the sight of federal immigration enforcement agents roaming through neighbourhoods and near their children's schools has become increasingly common.
Many have seen friends, colleagues and neighbours taken away – sometimes in broad daylight – by masked agents in unmarked vehicles.
“I have a three-year-old kid, and I worry a lot about him seeing this, having to explain it, or just how traumatising that would be for kids to just have this happening around them,” said Justin Fleming, a research scientist and resident of north-east Minneapolis.
“We see ICE everywhere now, it's a definite, notable uptick,” he told The National, referring to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
ICE's Minnesota presence is under a spotlight after an agent killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother of three, on Wednesday after a brief altercation as she was in her car on a froz
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