‘My hands were really shaky’: high-school journalist documents ICE raids

Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds – their presence has jolted Minneapolis’s young people

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hen immigration enforcement agents came on to her Minneapolis high school’s grounds on 7 January, Lila Dominguez was in the school’s basement working on an article about an ICE agent shooting Renee Good earlier that day.

The high school junior was glued to her phone watching videos from outside the school.

“I was kind of pacing around. My hands were really shaky,” she said. “I was just very overstimulated, and not really sure what to do in that moment for the people that I was with, or the people outside or my family.”