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After deaths, protests and political backlash, ICE surge set to end in Minnesota · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the news hour. The Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: is barreling toward a shutdown after Democrats refuse to budge
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  Speaker 1: on a funding bill and lawmakers left Washington for a
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  Speaker 1: ten day recess. The Department's funding is set to expire
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  Speaker 1: Friday at midnight.
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  Speaker 2: The deadlock comes as President Trump's immigration campaign faced intense
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  Speaker 2: scrutiny on Capitol Hill today, and his Borders are announced
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  Speaker 2: a significant drawdown to its operations in Minnesota. Lisa Dejardin
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  Speaker 2: begins our coverage good Morning.
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  Speaker 3: In Minneapolis from Tom Holman. A change of.
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  Speaker 4: Course I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred that
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  Speaker 4: this Surge operation conclude.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump's Borders are declaring an end to the tumultuous
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  Speaker 3: immigration crackdown in Minnesota, which in recent weeks saw a
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  Speaker 3: flory of street arrests, widespread protests, and the killing of
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  Speaker 3: US citizens Renee a Good and alex pretty by federal
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  Speaker 3: officers and an entire community on edge. Holman touted the
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  Speaker 3: operation as a success.
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  Speaker 4: As results were efforts here, Minnesota is not less of
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  Speaker 4: a sanctuary state for criminals.
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  Speaker 5: He said.
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  Speaker 3: Most agents will relocate, but a small footprint of personnel
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  Speaker 3: will remain to enforce immigration laws.
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  Speaker 6: President plump made a promise of mass deportation, and that's
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  Speaker 6: what this country want to get.
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  Speaker 3: But on the block where mister pretty was killed, skepticism lingers.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of trust.
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  Speaker 2: In what is being said by mister Holman and anyone
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  Speaker 2: in the administration.
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  Speaker 7: To be Franks. This is just one Blue state that
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  Speaker 7: is suffering what's happening, and other Blue states will continue
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  Speaker 7: to be under tack and Ice isn't going anywhere. This
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  Speaker 7: is just a stop on their checklist.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot of damages that are left here for
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  Speaker 8: us to clean ups.
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  Speaker 3: Lyn Wynn, who owns a restaurant in the Twin Cities suburbs,
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  Speaker 3: said the fear among immigrant communities will be hard to shake.
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  Speaker 8: We certainly feel that at the community itself was probably
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  Speaker 8: still very strong and so be there. But I know
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  Speaker 8: on a long term impact, it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, we are cautiously optimistic that mixed emotion, echoed
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  Speaker 3: today by Minnesota Governor Tim Walls.
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  Speaker 5: The fact of the matter is they left us with
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  Speaker 5: deep damage, generational trauma. They left us with economic ruin
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  Speaker 5: in some cases. While the federal government may move on
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  Speaker 5: to whatever next thing they want to do. The state
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  Speaker 5: of Minnesota and our administration is unwaveringly focused on the
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  Speaker 5: recovery of what they did.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in Washington, today's announcement came as the Senate Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security Committee gaveled in for an oversight hearing, first to
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  Speaker 3: testify Minnesota Representative and Majority whip Tom Emmer, who defended ICE.
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  Speaker 6: It was heartbreaking, and any loss of life is tragic,
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  Speaker 6: but make no mistake, it was all a direct result
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  Speaker 6: of radical sanctuary state and city policies in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Wallmaker's directed questions at state leaders like Minnesota Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: and Democrat Keith Ellison.
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  Speaker 9: We haven't had any cooperation up until now, which is
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  Speaker 9: really unusual.
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  Speaker 3: He indicated hope for better cooperation with ICE, but said,
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  Speaker 3: so far they have not seen that. On the investigations
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  Speaker 3: into the fatal shooting of Renee.
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  Speaker 9: Good, we have been denied access to critical evidence in
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  Speaker 9: the case to evaluate it. Information like the car, the
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  Speaker 9: gun shellcasings, other critical information needed to complete an evaluation
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  Speaker 9: in an investigation we simply haven't had access to. We
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  Speaker 9: hope this changes.
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  Speaker 3: Next, the nation's leading immigration officials faced senators. We can
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  Speaker 3: roll the video and the video of how their agents
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  Speaker 3: acted as senators played the moments leading up to Alex
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  Speaker 3: Pretti's killing frame by frame.
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  Speaker 4: Is filming of I or Board of Patrol either an
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  Speaker 4: assault or a crime in any way, mister Scott.
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  Speaker 6: No, Sir.
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  Speaker 3: CPB Commissioner Rodney Scott pledged to release officer bodycam video
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  Speaker 3: but declined comment and who was at fault in alex
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  Speaker 3: Pretty's death, citing investigations underway.
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  Speaker 10: This woman's clearly trying to at her back turn, trying
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  Speaker 10: to get away, and he shoves her pretty violently to
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  Speaker 10: the ground. Just looking at that, would you think that
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  Speaker 10: that's not de escalation or you just say you can't
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  Speaker 10: answer that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not justifying that action. I'm saying I don't
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  Speaker 4: have enough information in front of me to say it
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  Speaker 4: is or is not, because I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 4: before in the video.
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  Speaker 10: Or I think what's important about the encounter isn't even
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  Speaker 10: the specifics of the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: It's about what are your officers trained to do. Scott,
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  Speaker 3: as well as Acting Ice Director Todd Lyons, both indicated
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  Speaker 3: that an officer may draw their firearm when the agent
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  Speaker 3: believes it's required to do so including when approaching a
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  Speaker 3: stopped vehicle. Senator Rand Paul, who chairs the committee, urged
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  Speaker 3: the agencies to re evaluate. You have to look at
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  Speaker 3: what your rules are for drawing weapons, because it appears
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  Speaker 3: to me they're not using the same standard as the police.
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  Speaker 3: Both officials said they never told Homeland Security Secretary Christy
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  Speaker 3: Nome that their assessment of mister Pretty was that of
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  Speaker 3: a domestic terrorist.
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  Speaker 10: How would she possibly come to that kind of conclusion
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  Speaker 10: to tell the American public that when they're watching this video.
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  Speaker 4: I can't speculate on what someone else would say or why,
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  Speaker 4: sir Miss Ryan's sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I can't speculate to let the Secretary thought that time.
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  Speaker 10: So it seems to me a really big question, which
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  Speaker 10: means that we have to have Secretarynome here.
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  Speaker 3: For her part, Secretarynome was in California this afternoon.
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  Speaker 11: I know that some of the operations in Minnesota are changing,
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  Speaker 11: but we're going to continue to stay focused with our
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  Speaker 11: investigators through the Homeland Security investigations on the fraud that's
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  Speaker 11: been going on.
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  Speaker 3: Back in Washington, the midterms, and whether these agencies will
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  Speaker 3: deploy to the polls came up.
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  Speaker 6: We do civil enforcement and criminal law enforcement there's no
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  Speaker 6: reason for us to deploy too.
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  Speaker 3: At polling Facilityigan Democrat Alissa Slotkin argued, there's reason to
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  Speaker 3: believe they could.
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  Speaker 11: It's not fantasy, it's not made up. These are things
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  Speaker 11: that the President and his cabinet have suggested. If we
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  Speaker 11: do not have serious reform and change, then you will
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  Speaker 11: be contributing to the average American who woke up very
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  Speaker 11: supportive of law enforcement, being terrified that they and their
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  Speaker 11: community will be next.
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  Speaker 3: But the future of any reform and of agency funding
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  Speaker 3: are now unclear. The hearings now adjourned for the PBS
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  Speaker 3: News Hour. I'm Lisa Dejardin.
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