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ICE Leaving Minnesota Won’t Heal My Community’s Scars
Memories that won’t soon be forgotten.
Photographer: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images North AmericaA few hours after White House border czar Tom Homan announced the end of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, a steady stream of mourners gathered on the city’s south side. Their destination was the community-built memorial to Renée Nicole Good, located at the spot where her SUV came to a stop after she was shot in the head by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Some wiped away tears; others muttered in frustration; a few stared blankly at the flowers, notes, signs, and stuffed animals that were spread out along the curb. Mark Foresman, a 66-year-old retiree who’d arrived from a nearby suburb with his wife, Kathy, captured the mood in a single word: “Skepticism.”