Trump's Minnesota Siege Begins to Break

As federal immigration agents fanned out across Minnesota, an underground network of neighbors became a lifeline for families too terrified to step past their own front doors.

WASHINGTON — For one family living in an apartment in Minneapolis, Monday was the first time they had walked outside since December 4th.

That is eighty-three days.

In that time, Donald Trump continued signing executive orders in batches like grocery receipts, and the machinery of a federal government continued turning itself toward the project of making people like this family disappear. ICE agents fanned out across Minneapolis. People were pulled from cars. Children were left behind in backseats, screaming.

And this family stayed inside.

On Monday, some families there decided they would send their children back to school. Not all of them. Not even most of them. But some. In a city that has spent three months watching its immigrant neighborhoods go quiet the way a forest goes quiet before a fire, that counts.