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‘My hands were really shaky’: high-school journalist documents ICE raids

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Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds – their presence has jolted Minneapolis’s young people

When immigration enforcement agents came on to her Minneapolis high school’s grounds on 7 January, Lila Dominguez was in the school’s basement working on an article about an ICE agent shooting Renee Good earlier that day.

The high school junior was glued to her phone watching videos from outside the school.

 

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