The federal killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis this month, captured from multiple angles by witnesses recording on their cell phones, kicked off a dizzying day here and in Washington. Democratic politicians and ordinary Americans reacted with a mix of outrage and incredulousness, backfooting the Trump administration as the …
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A federal immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis man during a protest Saturday, marking the second fatal shooting involving immigration officers in the state this month and intensifying tensions between Minnesota officials and the Trump administration over aggressive federal enforcement tactics. The man, identified by family as Alex …
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A small group of moderate House Democrats broke with their party on Thursday to help Republicans pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, overcoming fierce opposition from most Democrats angered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive operations in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities. The DHS funding measure …
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A federal judge on Friday sharply limited the tactics federal law enforcement officers may use while policing protests in Minneapolis sparked by the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement resources to the city. In an 83-page order, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez barred federal agents from using pepper spray or …
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A federal immigration agent shot a man Wednesday evening after a scuffle in north Minneapolis, drawing a crowd of protesters blowing whistles and engaging in minor skirmishes with law enforcement who deployed chemical irritants. The shooting comes one week after the killing of Renee Good by federal immigration officer Jonathan …
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Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration to stop its latest immigration enforcement surge, alleging that the increased federal actions are unconstitutional and a violation of federal law. Attorney General Keith Ellison at a Monday press conference called the immigration enforcement surge an “invasion.” “The deployment of …
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Federal immigration authorities intensified a weekslong operation in the Twin Cities over the weekend following the Wednesday killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Residents pushed back, led by a growing network of rapid responders hounding U.S. ICE and Border Patrol vehicles and agents across the metro …
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The Department of Homeland Security has again imposed a requirement that members of Congress provide advance notice before inspecting immigration detention facilities, issuing a new policy designed to sidestep a federal court order that blocked similar restrictions last month. The policy, dated Jan. 8 and submitted Saturday in federal court, …
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An ICE officer fatally shot a woman driving an SUV through her car window in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The deadly confrontation immediately ratcheted up the intensity of what was already a brutal crackdown on Minnesota and its immigrants by the Trump administration — and in a community with …
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A federal judge early Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, issuing an emergency order only hours after she had directed his release from an immigration facility in Pennsylvania. The move marks the latest legal setback in the government’s attempts to deport the 30-year-old, whose case …
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More than one-third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal history, according to newly released internal data that offers one of the clearest views yet of the government’s expanded immigration enforcement strategy. The …
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The Trump administration on Wednesday launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis, expanding a crackdown that has been accompanied by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric from the president and heightened fear in immigrant communities. The Department of Homeland Security said the New Orleans operation was aimed at “criminal aliens roaming …
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Federal immigration raids in Chicago have escalated into chaotic scenes of helicopters, chemical agents and mass detentions, sparking outrage from Illinois officials and civil rights advocates who say the Trump administration’s tactics resemble a “military invasion” of U.S. neighborhoods. Residents awoke last week to federal agents rappelling from helicopters onto …
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The gunman who opened fire on a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Wednesday hated the U.S. government and wanted to “cause terror” by killing federal agents, authorities said Thursday, revealing new details about the deadly attack. Federal investigators identified the shooter as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who …
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A deadly shooting at a federal immigration facility in Dallas on Wednesday left two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees dead and one critically injured, prompting an FBI investigation into what officials described as an act of targeted violence. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. No …
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