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How the 2020 Minneapolis Protests Set Up the City To Fight ICE
Minneapolis became ground zero for resistance to ICE in 2026—and Michelle Phelps, sociologist at the University of Minnesota and author of The Minneapolis Reckoning, argues that’s not a coincidence. She joins the show to trace how networks, muscle memory, and skepticism of official narratives built during the 2020 protests carried directly into this year’s mobilization. We discuss why the city was already on the Trump administration’s radar, why the pullback of federal enforcement counts as a limited but real win, why Phelps calls it a “hollow” or “pyrrhic” victory given that deportations…
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