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Pushkin.
Hello.
Hi.
My wife.
Hi.
My husband.
How are you?
I'm getting through.
Yeah.
So you wanted to talk?
I did.
I feel like we haven't had much of a chance to connect over the last couple weeks
because there's been a lot going on here.
Here is Minneapolis, where I live,
and the epicenter of what the Trump administration is calling Operation Metro Surge.
Since it all began with the regular business,
of work, child care, and running a household,
Emily and I haven't really had a chance to sit down and actually talk.
I knew she had a lot she wanted to tell me.
So I asked her to start at the beginning.
On Wednesday, January 7th, I had dropped Aggie off at school.
And I was driving down 36th, which is a one-way.
There were, I don't know if it was six or eight vehicles coming directly,
toward me, going the wrong way, down a one-way at full speed.
And I really thought I was going to have a head-on collision.
Then they just suddenly stopped.
And then a bunch of men started running out of the cars.
And they were all masked.
And all the vehicles were unmarked.
My brain just wasn't connecting what was happening.
And then I saw two women running toward this scene with,
with whistles.
And then somewhere in my head, it clicked like, "Oh, this,
this is an ICE raid."
I didn't even know exactly what that meant,
but I just felt so clearly like something wrong is happening.
And so I parked and I jumped out.
I ran up to the building as they were all pulling away.
The woman who had a really little, like, five-pound dog,
one of the ICE agents just swerved right at the dog.
And I was really emotional because I was, still had a lot of adrenaline.
I was coming on the one-way and they almost hit me.
One of the women there hugged me.
And she just kept saying, "No, I know.
I said, who do they think they are?"
Who do they think they are?
Oh, my gosh, it's just too much.
I mean, that's when everything just, like, exploded.
I got home and, you know, I had news on the background.
And I saw that a woman had been shot dead.
And that turned out later that this was Renee Goode.
And she had just dropped her kid off from school, too.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
She was shot about 40 minutes after I had that encounter,
about four blocks away.
I went to the vigil that night.
Okay.
There were a lot of people there.
I think everybody there really felt an obligation to be there.
While I was there, I got a text from Katie,
my sister, telling me that ICE had showed up at Theo's school.
Theo is her 14-year-old nephew.
And that they had pepper sprayed a crowd of teachers and students.
So she texted me that and then wrote,
"I have no idea how to process this with my child."
When did I learn that ICE was a thing?
When did you learn that ICE was a thing?
Do you remember?
No.
Do you?
And Auggie.
You know, Auggie's nine.
And so that's been one of the really hard things here is to know what you tell your
kid.
I've been trying to talk to him about it just as honestly as possible with trying to
emphasize, you know, that he's safe.
But even if he is safe, there's a lot of kids right now around this city.
His age, who aren't.
And that's, how do you explain that?
You know?
You told Auggie about Renée Good?
Yes.
And what was that like?
I first told him that a woman had been shot by ICE.
Then the next day, Julian came over and Eli, Julian's dad, said something to me about
Auggie.
He said, "You know, Auggie, you know, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
You can't do that."
And he said, "No, you can't do that."
And I said, "No, you can't do that."
And I said, "No, you can't do that."
He said, "No, you can't do that."
about, "Oh, and you encountered them that morning in front of Auggie." And so then Auggie was like, "Wait, what?"
"You're okay?" "Yeah, I'm okay." "But you wouldn't have stopped if I was in the car?" "No. No, honey."
And we talked about it for a couple minutes, and then he said, "Okay, I think we need to stop talking about this now."
And so I respected that and stopped talking about it.
So then the Thursday and Friday after Renee Good was killed, schools were canceled across the city because it just wasn't safe.
I stayed home with Auggie, and some of his friends came over.
And throughout the day, kids would be playing, and they'd be fine, and then they would say, "It's so sad."
Like, "This is so sad that I murdered somebody."
This is what Auggie's friends were saying.
Yeah, yeah.
And I actually have a really clear memory that day.
We were working with the hot glue gun, and Julian somehow cut his hand.
And the concern that they all just sort of rallied around him and were so worried about his hand.
Julian?
Yeah.
He's like the Mr. Tough Guy.
I know.
And then there was this moment after I bandaged it up that we all—and I've never had a moment with the boys like this—where we all sort of like hugged each other.
The boys went for this?
They allowed this?
Yeah.
And I do think it was just like this moment of vulnerability that we were all feeling such a weight, you know, that it just allowed us to have this moment of coming together.
It was really beautiful.
Wow.
I mean, everything is completely overwhelming.
But you still have to eat.
You still have to walk the dog.
And, you know, kids are still kids.
That next morning, I was laying in bed, and Auggie came in wearing a captain's hat and a suit jacket and started rapping about yachts.
Yachts.
I want one for my birthday.
Yachts.
I can get it because it's a vacay.
Yachts.
They're really great.
Yachts.
It was all about going on yachts and having cookie vacays.
God, I would love a cookie vacay right now.
We could all release.
Let's go. I want it for my birthday, yas. You don't need to take a bath, yas.
Tuesday. This is Tuesday the 13th, less than a week since Renee Good had been killed.
Once again, I had dropped Augie off at school, and I was driving home, and suddenly all these vehicles start swerving around my car, and I'm a little bit boxed in.
And then I started hearing the whistles, and so I decide to get out.
There's ICE agents all over. They're going up to an apartment building, yelling, you've got to open up the door.
And, you know, the crowd is slowly growing, but pretty quiet.
And then they come out of the apartment building, and they have. Two guys who, to me, looked like children, early 20s at the oldest, but I'd be surprised if it was even that.
One of them is wearing a T-shirt and shorts, even though it's, you know, it's very cold outside.
I mean, it's so cold. It's the kind of cold that, you know, you take your gloves off for a few seconds, and your fingers just really hurt.
Like, it is hard to be outside in this weather.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And when we see the kids. We just start screaming, shame on you!
I'm a mom.
You know, like, shame on you is the word that comes to mind.
And we're yelling, you know, they're kids, and. Shame on you!
Sorry, this is going to be the hardest part for me.
So everything escalated, I should just say first, like, everything escalated very quickly.
It just becomes chaos.
Our ICE agents are just pushing people, shoving people, kicking them, you know, they have them down on the ground.
And I can't even describe the feeling where, like, literally three feet from me, I see a man, like, just a Minneapolis guy on the ground, and an agent just pepper spraying him straight in the face from three inches away.
And I mean, every part of you just wants to run and just, like, tackle that guy.
But you know you can't.
And so you just yell.
Because what else do you do?
But just to stand there and see somebody brutalized like that, you just feel so powerless.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
So I'm standing on the corner, and they're trying to get this car to. This woman in the car.
And there's nowhere she can go.
I mean, it was just chaos.
And they're screaming at her.
There's, like, 15 agents, you know, just surrounding her car, screaming at her.
They just broke the window!
They broke the window in the car!
They broke the window!
All of a sudden, they break her passenger side window.
Then they go around to her side and forcibly pull her out of the car.
And she's screaming.
Hmm.
And then they've just got her by all fours and start carrying her away.
And then I see that they have a white-haired man that they are carrying by all fours.
And they open the back door of a black SUV and literally, like, stuff him in.
That's the only language I know how to use.
Sorry.
So they stuff him into the vehicle, and then. There's flash bombs all over the place.
And then the first. I just hear a bunch of, like, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
And I figure out that these are, I guess, what are flashbangs.
And then smoke just starts to pour out.
Smoke all over.
And then it hits your throat first.
And it starts to burn, and you're starting to cough, and you're like, ooh, that's strong.
And then it hits your face.
Yeah.
Skin on your face.
And then your eyes start to burn.
And for a second, you're like, oh, this hurts, but it's okay.
And then each second that passes, you're just like, oh, it's not okay.
Oh, it's really not okay.
And then you're just, like, fucked.
And then I just can't really move.
I'm doubled over.
And I grabbed. I've got a fistful of snow to put on my eyes, and I can't see in any way.
And then I just feel, like, a hand reach out for me and grabs my hand.
And they start to just guide me away out of the gas.
And then there's a guy there wearing a bandana, and he says, this is my house.
This is my house.
It's the most Minnesotan thing of all time.
We walk in the house.
None of us can even see, really.
And he says, I'm sorry it's so messy in here.
Thank you.
That's much better.
I had a bottle of water, and we're pouring it over my eyes.
Thank you very much for the hospitality.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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One week after Rene Good
and a week and three days before Alex Preddy,
another person in Minneapolis was shot by ICE agents.
He was at his home when it happened.
He was shot in the leg.
It wasn't fatal,
and the incident didn't get as much media attention.
The man's name was Julio Cesar Sosa Celis.
He was Venezuelan, and he had no criminal record.
There are different accounts of what happened that night,
but in a nutshell,
the federal government claims Julio
had been targeted for arrest,
that he fled during a car chase,
and that when he was caught,
he was shot by an ICE agent in self-defense.
The FBI says otherwise.
Their investigation determined
that ICE wasn't looking for Julio at all,
and that he was not a part of any chase.
Julio's roommate was mistaken for someone else
while driving,
and he got into a car chase with ICE.
The roommate led the agents back to the house
he and Julio shared with their partners and their babies.
Eyewitnesses say the shooting wasn't self-defense,
that the men were fleeing into the house
when shots were fired.
At the end of the night,
Julio and his partner, Indriani, were arrested.
But the story I want to tell
isn't about the shooting itself.
I want to tell the story of the family
Julio and Indriani left behind,
what their life was like before that night,
and what it's been like ever since.
So far, Julio and Indriani's family in Minnesota
haven't spoken with any journalists,
but it turns out I have a connection
to Indriani's mom, Yamilis.
It was very tenuous,
through friends of friends,
but it was enough for me to be trusted.
And so, one cold night,
a week after the shooting,
I text Yamilis my photo
so she could identify me through the front door's small window,
and I go over to talk.
Hi.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Hello.
Hello.
Since Julio and Indriani have been incarcerated,
Yamilis has been taking care of their three-year-old son,
her grandson.
Yamilis has been taking care of her three-year-old son,
Yamilis has been in the U.S. since 2023,
but with the shooting,
she fears that she and her family have become targets,
even more so targets,
of ICE.
So she doesn't leave the house,
not to grocery shop,
not to go to work.
She keeps the blinds drawn,
the lights outside,
off.
She says she prays that God will just make her house invisible.
Yes, Yamilis.
Yamilis.
Jonathan.
Jonathan.
Yes, yes.
I'm with my interpreter, Eric,
who's not really an interpreter,
but my former. I'm with my former office mate,
who works as an immigration lawyer.
This is Eric.
Nice to meet you.
Hola.
Eric, ¿cómo está?
The house is full of life.
Four kids of her own,
ages 9 through 14,
and her three-year-old grandson,
Julio and Indriani's son.
Once inside,
one of the kids locks the door behind us.
Estamos más seguros.
Since the shooting,
even though her children have open asylum cases
and social security numbers,
Yamilis has kept them all home from school.
Her 14-year-old, Alejandra, attends class over video.
I ask her if her teachers know why she hasn't been in class.
Yeah, but I, like, I didn't tell all my teachers,
so my grades are going down.
Oh.
So I'm scared about that, too.
I'm sorry.
I really want to go to school again,
but my mom's like,
you need to stay here
because the ice can take you and things like that, you know?
But I really want to go to school again.
Yamilis' 10-year-old son, Javier, walks over.
He has a question he wants to ask me.
Yes?
Oh, I wish I knew.
I'm so sorry.
As her partner, Danielle, makes himself dinner,
and the kids come and go from the living room,
Yamilis tells me about her life before all of this,
why she left Venezuela for the United States,
in the first place.
We were living hidden.
My fear of returning is really strong.
When I ask why that is,
Yamilis just says political persecution
and leaves it at that.
Her daughter, Indriani, had already migrated to the U.S.
and made a home for herself and her son in Minnesota.
Yamilis really missed them.
To see them again,
she and her family embarked on a difficult journey,
mostly done on foot.
She and her partner, Danielle,
towed four little kids across South and Central America
and through Mexico.
We didn't have phone.
We didn't have money.
I had some coins.
That's it.
We walked for two months.
Sleeping in the street.
Eating what people would give us.
We walked a lot.
But always happy.
With a lot of faith.
In being able to once again see my daughter and my grandson.
On the way from Colombia to Panama,
they passed through the incredibly dangerous rainforest
known as the Dari.
Dari and Gap.
Donde han muerto muchísimas personas también.
Where a lot of people have died.
The Dari and Gap is a roughly 60-mile stretch of rainforest.
It's the only gap in the Pan-American Highway.
No road, not even a dirt trail.
The area is filled with strong rivers,
flash floods, and wild animals.
There is no police.
Many migrants are murdered and raped during passage.
But of all the places they traveled through,
Yamilis says the parts of Mexico,
controlled by the cartels,
were the scariest.
She describes how while trying to avoid
the immigration authorities,
her family escaped into the forest.
So three armed men came kind of out of the trees.
Ellos preguntaron en ese momento,
¿No le va a pasar nada?
They said, nothing's going to happen.
¿Traen el dinero?
Give us your money.
¿Traen los teléfonos?
Give us your phones.
Yo le dije, no hay dinero ni teléfono tengo.
They said, I don't have money or phone.
Yamilis gestures towards her 12-year-old daughter
who's sitting on the couch.
Ella lloró porque veía las pistolas.
She cried because she saw the guns.
Me dijeron que se calle o la mato.
And they said, she better be quiet or we'll kill her.
Mi hijo varón.
My son.
Es curioso con las pistolas.
He was curious about the guns.
Si me vuelve a mirar, lo mato.
And they said,
He looks at me again.
I'm going to kill him.
Nos desnudaron.
They took all our clothes off.
Para saber si teníamos dinero escondido.
Looking forward to see if we had hidden money.
When they didn't find anything,
they let them go.
Yamilis and Daniel had heard about a train
that carried migrants from Mexico City
to the American border.
The train was referred to as
La Bestia, the Beast.
It's also been called the Train of Death.
Passengers ride on top of the train
or on top of freight cars.
Loss of limbs, maimings, even death occur
as people try to board the moving train.
The family was told by other migrant travelers
where to wait for the train.
They waited and waited.
Viene el tren, grandísimo.
Then comes this big train.
Y todo, ahí viene el tren.
Everyone starts cheering the train, the train.
Veo que muchas personas comienzan a correr
y a correr y a correr.
Personas que andaban solas.
And I saw a lot of people start running and running.
And running and running.
Pero yo sí dije a Dios en ese momento,
Dios, si es de ti que nos montemos, que se pare.
And I said to God in that moment,
God, if it's your will for us to get on this train,
let it stop.
Porque andando el tren,
yo no puedo montar más mis hijos, no.
Él se puede montar más los niños, no.
Because the train moving, I could get on
and my husband could get on, but the kids, no.
They have to jump on.
Claro.
Clearly.
Y no podía agarrar dos niños más y el dos niños más.
And I couldn't jump.
I couldn't jump and grab onto the train
with holding two of my children
and him holding the other two.
Y si me soltaban, me podía matar el tren.
And if I fell, the train could kill me.
When the train came to a full stop,
Yamilis took it as a sign.
The last car of the train.
Hay unas escaleritas.
There was a ladder.
Subimos muy rápido.
And we climbed up very quick.
Y quise como amarrar los niños.
Vamos a amarrarlos para que no se vayan a caer.
And we passed five days on the train.
On top of the train like that.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, on top of the train.
Cuando pasaba por pueblos, nos lanzaban comida, galletas.
When we went through towns or villages,
people would throw us food or cookies.
Porque fueron momentos en que uno, si se bajaba,
se podía ir el tren y donde quedábamos.
Because we couldn't get down.
Because if we got down, the train could leave
and we'd be stuck.
Ese tren nos movió más de medio México.
That train moved us through half of Mexico.
And the kids, how are they?
Yeah, we tied them on
We tied the children down
One just has to say, I'm going, I'm moving forward
Through the cold at night and the heat during the day
Yamilis and her partner stayed awake
holding on to the children
Falling asleep meant running the risk of being shoved from the train
or simply falling, which could mean instant death
So for five days she hung on
No bathroom, just a pot
No proper food, just what they could catch
And no sleep
In this way, Yamilis spent her birthday
She was turning 34 years old
The train finally stopped in Juarez
People had been killed, children had been taken
People had had their stuff stolen
And I thank God that we were people
that were very blessed
A man who saw the family get off the train
offered to buy them food
Other people gave them drinks
Another man even gave them money
They all ate
And finally, walking distance from the U.S. border
they slept
In the morning, U.S. immigration
admitted Yamilis and the children into the U.S.
They spent the night in a border patrol tent
and were given paperwork to start the asylum process
Eventually, they were placed on a bus to Chicago
Yamilis is now in the U.S.
Yamilis is now in the U.S.
Yamilis' daughter, Indriani, came to greet her
It was Yamilis' first time seeing her daughter
in a year and a half
We just ran to each other and hugged
and I grabbed my grandson
He was so little
Together, they traveled back to Indriani's new home
in Minnesota, where the kids enrolled in school
and eventually, Yamilis found work
cleaning houses and offices
Over the years, they settled in
and made a life for themselves
After the break, Yamilis tells me
about her second separation from her daughter and grandson
the night of Julio's shooting
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Yamilis was at work
When she got her daughter's frantic video call
And Riani was telling her that Ice was at the door
It's where she's hidden
With her baby in her arms
Crying
She was hidden with her baby in her arms
Crying
Y diciéndome
Mamá van a entrar, nos van a matar
And she was saying to me
Mamá, if they come in, they're going to kill us
Tear gas had been thrown through the window
And so Yamilis' daughter and grandson got on the ground
They were phoning from under the bed
Mostrar el video
I can show you the video
Puede escuchar todo
You can hear everything
Yamilis pulls out her phone
She had recorded the call
And she shows me the video
They're going to kill us, mom
I'm hearing shots
I asked where Julio and his roommate were
While she was on the phone with her daughter
Turns out they were also on the phone
They were there
And they were talking to their mothers
Porque en ese momento
Ellos pensaban que los iban a matar
Because in that moment
They thought that they were going to kill them
Y querían como despedirse de cada madre
And they wanted to say goodbye to each of their mothers
Yamilis says that her daughter, rightfully,
Didn't open the door
But ice broke the door down
While she's telling this story
A toddler runs in
He's bright-eyed
And wearing a little football jersey
Is this your grandson?
Sí
Hi
Hi
Hello
He's saying the police took his mom
He's talking about how the bomb came through the window
And they shot his dad Julio
He's talking about the
It smelled bad
The gas
It smelled awful
It smelled ugly
It smelled bad
Sí
Did it hurt your eyes?
No le gusta
I didn't like
I didn't like
¿Qué pasó?
¡Todo!
¡Duro!
Sí, decía
¡Tum! ¡Tum! ¡Tum!
They hit the door
They hit the door
¡Tum! ¡Tum! ¡Tum!
Hard
Yamilis says
Her grandson keeps talking about that night
He still has nightmares
Y yo escucho
Él duerme conmigo
He sleeps with me
And I hear
Yo escucho cuando él se despierta de noche
When he wakes up at night
Llora, llora
Crying
Mom, he's smaller
To flee political persecution from one country
The family underwent a death-defying journey to another country
Only to be persecuted by that new country's government
Could you ever have imagined that it would get this bad?
That it would get like this?
No
Estados Unidos me parece
Yeah
The United States
A beautiful country
En sus cuatro estaciones
In its four seasons
En el frío, en el calor
The cold, the heat
Me gusta más el calor
I like the heat more
That first winter, Yamilis wore gloves and hats indoors
Wherever she went, she carried around a space heater that had been gifted to her
But seeing how much the kids enjoyed the snow, the winter has grown on her
Yo me siento bien aquí
I feel good here
Y yo me siento bien aquí
Y vinimos a trabajar
We came to work
Vinimos por un bienestar para nuestros hijos
We came for the good of our children
Ah, por cierto, están invitados a un verano, el próximo verano, venir a comer a mi casa
Truly, you guys, next summer I'm invited to eat at my house
Estoy aquí
If I'm here
Si todo está normal
Vamos a comer muy rico
Vamos, we're going to eat really well
On Tuesday, Julio appeared in court
To counter the federal government's narrative, lawyers presented photographs showing a bullet hole through the front door of Julio's house
And a bullet hole in one of the bedrooms, between a mattress and a crib
The judge ordered Julio's release
But when Julio left the courthouse, ICE agents were waiting for him outside
He's now back in detention
Indriani was released last week
On the morning she returned, her son was still sleeping
When she woke him, he didn't recognize her at first
but then he hugged her. Now he doesn't want to leave her side. He's afraid Ice will take her
again. Yamilis still hasn't left the house, and her kids have yet to return to school.
This episode was produced by Emily Condon and me, Jonathan Goldstein, as well as supervising
producer Stevie Lane and senior producer Kalila Holt. Fact-checking by Andrea Lopez Cruzado.
My interpreter at Yamilis' house was Eric Day. Editorial help from Nadia Raymond. Special thanks
to Melissa Redfield, Ben Natafhafri, and Daphne Chan. Sarah Bruguere mixed the episode with music
by Emma Munger. We'll be back in your feed in a few weeks.
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Key Points:
ChatGPT can assist with complex projects by generating plans, analyses, trackers, or workflows when given a goal and relevant data, while users maintain control through review and approval.
The podcast highlights the human impact of ICE raids in Minneapolis, including the shooting of Renee Goode and Julio César Sosa Celis, and the resulting trauma on families and communities.
Yamilis, a Venezuelan migrant, shares her harrowing journey across Central America to reach the U.S., describing dangers like armed men, violence, and the deadly "La Bestia" train.
After the raids, Yamilis and her family live in constant fear, with children staying home from school and the family avoiding public spaces due to ICE threats.
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S. due to ICE activity. Children remain home from school, and the family lives in constant fear, with even small acts—like a child’s nightmares—reflecting deep emotional scars.
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Hosted by Niall Rogers, this podcast follows artists across the country as they share the personal moments that shaped their careers and led to their breakthroughs.
The narrator witnessed ICE agents conducting a raid on a residential street, including breaking a car window, forcibly removing a woman from her vehicle, and pepper-spraying a man on the ground. The incident involved a family and led to emotional and traumatic reactions.
Julio, a Venezuelan man with no criminal record, was shot by ICE agents during a confrontation that was disputed. The FBI found no evidence of a chase or self-defense, and the incident raised concerns about immigration enforcement targeting vulnerable individuals.
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