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Tania Fischer and Carissa Coudray, volunteers with the mutual aid group Juntos Podemos, carry boxes of food into A & A Barber Studio in Minneapolis, Minn. on April 24, 2026. Juntos Podemos continues to distribute food and other donations to families as they recover from Operation Metro Surge.
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During Operation Metro Surge, mutual aid efforts in Minneapolis raised millions of dollars. But with most agents gone, and with increasing fatigue from community members, funds are drying up and people are moving on. Immigrants are not.
Jessica Serrato talks on the phone to her partner who is deployed to the Middle East while she gets her children ready for school in Southern California.
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President Donald Trump reacts to a question from a reporter after signing a series of executive orders, including, a pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in the Oval Office at the White House in February 2025.
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