While President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda separates families and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now. This whiplash between the pride of United States competitors and the national shame of the federal government is common. Even the U.S. Olympians … Read more
A relatively short but lucrative ICE crackdown in West Virginia netted about 650 illegal immigrant arrests earlier this month — a two-week operation that state officials say went off with little disruption and now represents a counterpoint to the turmoil surrounding similar enforcement efforts in Minnesota. Between Jan. 5 and Jan. 19, federal agents fanned … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as laborers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and immaculate white hard hats, he noticed, even when they were parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin electrician posted on the … Read more
School drop-off and pick-up in Minneapolis looks a lot different since Immigration and Customs Enforcement came to town. Kate Lundquist, a mother of six and a local teacher, told CNN that these days — as she’s pulling her kids out the door — she finds herself checking to see if her two adopted sons have … Read more
(Fix typo in first subtitle) By Heather Schlitz MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) – When Fabiola, a single mother and naturalized U.S. citizen from Latin America, first learned of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, she said she was heartbroken and terrified. She then joined thousands of others in … Read more
Newly obtained videos of the moments immediately after Wednesday’s incident in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis appear to contradict at least some of ICE’s claims about the events leading up to the shooting. In a statement Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said the … Read more
