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Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are continuing to scare, intimidate and disrupt day-to-day life for Minnesota’s parents, students and teachers, despite the Trump administration announcing a drawdown of agents earlier this month, local school officials told Minnesota Public Radio.

“I had to cancel school because of all of our staff that were not feeling safe to come to work,” Fridley Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Lewis told MPR News during a recent tour of her district, located just north of Minneapolis.

Lewis said she used to only see ICE hanging around her schools during student arrival and dismissal times, a tactic that she believes was meant to intimidate and “let us know that they were there.”

“Then it started to elevate into me being followed two times in one day, it also elevated that same day into ICE sitting outside of three board members’ homes that day and a board member being followed,” she said.

At one point, she said, ICE agents dressed up like members of the press, wearing fake orange press bands on their arms, and stood outside one of her schools yelling and screaming at parents and staff while recording and taking pictures.

The district’s safety and security coordinator, Steve Monsrud, called the agents’ behavior unlike anything he’s ever seen from law enforcement.

“They seem to be pretty aggressive and short-tempered, and maybe not the best trained,” he said.

Read the full story at MPR News.