Tag Archives: Immigration

Democrats have opened tentative talks with the White House over demands for sweeping new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown, just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire and another partial government shutdown threatens. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that …

A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday laid bare the extraordinary strain that the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement push has placed on federal prosecutors, judges and the court system in Minnesota — and the growing frustration of judges who say their orders are repeatedly ignored. The hearing before …

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to sweeping changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign. With DHS funding set to expire next week, Democratic leaders say they will withhold …

U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday detailed the “common sense” changes they want to implement for federal immigration enforcement, saying reforms must be added to a funding package that needs to become law before the weekend to avoid a partial government shutdown. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after a closed-door …

A person was shot Tuesday morning during an encounter involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona, authorities said, marking the latest shooting tied to federal immigration enforcement as scrutiny intensifies nationwide over the use of force by Department of Homeland Security officers. The shooting occurred around 7:30 a.m. near …

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 …

Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald Trump. The demonstration took place …

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 …

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into Minnesota officials, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over allegations they conspired to impede federal immigration agents, marking a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s confrontation with state and local leaders in Minnesota, according to multiple sources familiar …

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 …

The Trump administration is halting immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia and Somalia, in the latest and most far-reaching step yet to restrict legal immigration pathways to the United States. The indefinite pause, which takes effect Jan. 21, is intended to limit applicants deemed …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Trump administration has set the U.S. refugee admissions cap at just 7,500 for the new fiscal year, the lowest in modern history, while prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa under a controversial new policy announced Thursday in a memo published in the Federal Register. The Sept. 30 memo, signed …