Minneapolis volunteers hide immigrant children separated from parents and sought by federal agents

Описание: (24 Jan 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

++INTERVIEW SHOT IN SILHOUETTE++
++CHILDREN'S FACES COVERED++
++ON-SCREEN ENGLISH SUBTITLES++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis - 17 January 2026
1. Children in safe house
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Migrant from Ecuador:
"I was at work and I received a call saying Migration (ICE) had taken my mother."
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Migrant from Ecuador:
"They could also detain me, my brothers and sisters could fall into the hands of the government and that scares me."
4. Children in safe house
5. Various of Feliza Martinez holding a baby in the safe house
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Feliza Martinez, Source MN Volunteer:
"Right now we are at a safe house that we have created. Right now we have a brother who is 20-years-old who is taking care of his five little siblings, the youngest one is 5-months."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Feliza Martinez, Source MN Volunteer:
"ICE had gone to there door knocking and they were very afraid and they didn't know what to do so we went our there at night and got them and brought them here to the safe house to get them to a safe place."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis - 19 January 2026
8. Various of Minneapolis street scenes

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis - 17 January 2026
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Migrant from Ecuador:
"Minneapolis is a very beautiful state, but what the government is doing is ruining it. Many people are being captured, families are being separated. And the majority people are against that. The situation is only going to get worse."
10. Martinez translating a prayer being said before dinner
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Feliza Martinez, Source MN Volunteer:
"I voted for Trump and I really thought he was just going to take the criminals, the bad people our of here, but being in the front line and what I've experienced and seen I wish I would've never voted for him. Its just not Christianity, what he's doing, its not Christian."
12. Various of little girl playing with puzzle
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Migrant from Ecuador:
"I've told them that my mom is going to be okay, that she's going to come back. They ask me "What happened, where is she?" I keep telling them that she's coming, that she's on her way."






STORYLINE:
As more than 2,000 federal agents surge in Minneapolis in an immigration crackdown and clash with protestors on the streets, residents are also finding ways to covertly disrupt the operation.

Former Trump supporter Feliza Martinez, a devote Christian, is rallying volunteers to support immigrant children with supplies and even safe houses as part of a local food bank program called Source MN.

Last Friday, Martinez brought a family of 10 — including eight children — to a safe house in south Minneapolis after their Ecuadorian mother, Melida Rita Wampash Tuntuam, was detained earlier this month and federal agents pursued her children.

The oldest siblings fear they will be separated from their five-month-old brother.

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