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Not every arrest by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement during Operation Metro Surge brought out the crowds in Minnesota.
Some arrests were loud: residents blowing whistles to alert others, taunting masked ICE officers on the streets and chanting support for immigrants.
But in the case of Marjorie Flores and her husband of 15 years, Luis Caiza, there was silence the day ICE came to Maple Grove.
It was Jan. 10 just before 7 a.m. and the temperature was 19 degrees. Flores remembers the roads were iced over; she felt it when she was yanked out of the car by ICE agents.
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Flores spoke to MPR News in an interview conducted in Spanish. She said she saw no cars or people nearby that day when it was usually a busy stretch of road. No rapid response teams. No cameras or whistles....
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