How are businesses impacted by protests in Minneapolis?

明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市的抗议活动如何影响企业?

World Business Report

2026-01-27

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The Trump administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to step up the removal of undocumented migrants more than six weeks ago, triggering large scale protests across the US. Rahul Tandon speaks to business owners who say staff are too frightened to come into work. In France, the government moves a step closer to banning social media for children under 15s. And as a deadly winter storm batters the US and Canada, a farmer explains how he keeps his animals safe in extreme conditions. [Photo: Protests in Minneapolis. Credit:CRAIG LASSIG/EPA/Shutterstock]
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  • Latinos aren't here shopping, drivers are afraid, the risk for us is really scary.

  • It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Rahul Tandon.

  • How do you run a company when some of your staff are too frightened to come to work?

  • We'll find out.

  • And the French Parliament debates banning social media for children under 15.

  • That's a sound we've been hearing a lot of here on the BBC World Service

  • because there have been large protests in the US city of Minneapolis despite temperatures being as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius.

  • That of course follows the shooting dead of another US citizen by ICE agents sent by President Trump to remove illegal immigrants.

  • The BBC's Tom Bateman has been on the streets of Minneapolis.

  • It really feels like a standoff now between this Democrat city and the Trump administration,

  • it represents a much wider story about the battle for contemporary America.

  • A Trump administration that says it is delivering on its elected pledge to carry out a mass deportation campaign accusing people here of inciting an insurrection.

  • And the protesters and the Democrats here saying that they are seeing their city occupied by agents geared up more for war than carrying out immigration enforcement.