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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani

‘These are people’s livelihoods’: Minnesota’s economy in crisis amid ICE surge

A customer browses the selection at a bakery
A customer browses baked goods at Panaderia San Miguel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The bakery closed for three weeks due to federal activity in the area. Photograph: Bridget Bennett/The Guardian

A man walked into Soleil Ramirez’s restaurant last month and started to ask strange questions: How many people do you have on staff? Why are you so small? “Stuff nobody asks,” she said.

The man then started talking loudly into his phone. “I’m here doing a dip in a restaurant. There’s not a lot of people here, so I don’t know if it’s worth coming,” Ramirez recalled him saying. The encounter left her unnerved.

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