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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 …

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called for a dramatic reduction in legal immigration, telling students at the University of Mississippi that the United States must “get the overall numbers way, way down” to allow the country’s “own society to cohere.” Speaking at an event organized by Turning Point USA, …

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 …

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order imposing a $100,000 application fee on H-1B visas, in one of his administration’s most sweeping efforts yet to restrict legal immigration and push companies to hire more American workers. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said the policy would “ensure we …

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to federalize the Washington, D.C., police force again if the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) refuses to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The warning came just days after Trump’s 30-day emergency takeover of the city expired. In August, the president placed the …

A federal judge on Friday blocked a major Trump administration initiative to expand fast-track deportations nationwide, ruling that the policy violates the constitutional rights of migrants who have lived in the United States for years. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of President Joe Biden, issued the ruling in …

The Department of Homeland Security has begun transferring detainees out of Florida’s controversial state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” days after a federal judge ordered parts of the facility dismantled. In a statement Wednesday, DHS said detainees were being moved to other centers across the country in response …

Federal immigration officials plan to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, his attorneys said Saturday, after the Maryland man rejected an offer to instead relocate to Costa Rica in exchange for pleading guilty to human smuggling charges. The decision marks the latest turn in a years-long legal and political battle …

A federal judge late Friday ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold federal funding from Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and more than 30 other cities and counties over their policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge William Orrick, sitting in San Francisco, extended a preliminary injunction that …