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1/ The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.

Residents are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing community aid. Our photojournalist @pdicampo wanted to know: What do these people — his neighbors — look like in their daily lives?

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2/ Libby Blyth is an accountant driving people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE. She described them crouching fearfully in her backseat.

“I don’t want to be one of those people that sat,” she told ProPublica. “I don’t want to be somebody’s history lesson.
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3/ Barber Adan Tepozteco Gavilan started a food drive with his sister, Anai, that has provided food to hundreds of families.

“We’re going to continue to support as many families as we can, especially kids,” he said.
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4/ Elizabeth Anderson works in performing arts. She also arranges for drivers to take kids to school and coordinates food delivery for 100+ families.

She didn’t think what she was doing was out of the ordinary. “It just seems so simple. My neighbors need help,” she said.
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5/ Norman Alston, a high school wrestling coach who watches for ICE outside the school, said this is not political for him:

“Legal immigration, illegal immigration? That’s not my call… By the time you’re my neighbor, you’re my neighbor."
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6/ Jianeth Riera Lazo, a chef at a Minneapolis cafe, helps connect friends and family with food and rental assistance. But she confided: “I call [my friends] and I say: ‘Please think positive. This is going away very soon.’ … And then I turn off the phone, and I start crying.”
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7/ Nasrieen Habib founded Amanah Recreational Project, an organization that promotes outdoor activities for Muslim women.

She redirected her organization to provide food and rent assistance because, she said, “this is what it means to be Minnesotan.”
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"Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or led in their efforts by state or city officials," @pdicampo writes.

Here’s his full story about his neighbors, in their city, in their own words:
https://propub.li/41tfuld
“This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE

After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.

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