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Minneapolis clinic counters the health fallout of immigration enforcement
Plenary: The cost of fear: The short- and long-term health consequences of aggressive immigration enforcement Moderator: Renuka Rayasam, senior correspondent, KFF Health News Munira Maalimisaq, CEO, Inspire Change Clinic Georges C. Benjamin, M.D., executive director, American Public Health Association By Lindsay Lee Wallace, Connecticut Health Journalism 2026 fellow Munira Maalimisaq, CEO of Inspire Change Clinic,…
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How to avoid bias when covering ICE shootings
As President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration campaign sweeps across the country, gun violence tends to follow, according to reporting by The Trace. That violence came to a head in January when two U.S. citizens were fatally shot in the streets of Minneapolis during “Operation Metro Surge,” a mobilization of the federal agencies Immigration and Customs…
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Letter from Minneapolis: No ‘normal’ in journalism, right now
When ICE arrived here before the holidays, they brought a sense of foreboding. At first, there were distractions: the holidays, kids home from college. But a few weeks in, on a run around Bde Maka Ska, the lake near my house, my Mexican-born running partner broke into tears. She’d been carrying her passport everywhere she…
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AHCJ stands with Minneapolis
This week has brought profound sorrow and alarm following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents — another tragedy that has shaken health workers, journalists and the public alike. More than a dozen people have been shot by federal agents nationwide since September; four were killed, including Pretti, Renee Macklin Good,…
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How journalists can stay safe covering protests
Protests in America have been fairly constant in the past year. Per the Crowd Counting Consortium, the number rose from 4,588 in 2017 (Trump’s first year in office) to 10,700 in 2025 (the President’s first year of his second term). From No Kings marches to protests against ICE, Americans have taken to the streets to…
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