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Economic blackout planned in Minnesota to protest ICE

Labor and community groups in Minneapolis are calling for an economic blackout on Friday in protest against weeks of aggressive federal immigration sweeps.

Kieran Knutson, president of the Communications Workers of America Local 7250, one of the unions behind the blackout, joins us.

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