By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Brad Heath WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly stopped by unmarked vehicles. At least half a dozen masked officers jumped in to arrest her, one pounding on her … Read more
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Like many Donald Trump voters, Miranda Niedermeier isn’t opposed to immigration enforcement. She was encouraged by the Republican president’s initial moves in his second term that she saw as targeting immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes. But Niedermeier, 35, has grown increasingly disenchanted with Trump. … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved quickly this week to negotiate with Democrats to try to avoid a lengthy government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, a sharp departure from last year’s record impasse when he refused to budge for weeks. Some Republicans are frustrated by the deal, raising the possibility … Read more
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has resisted efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut surveillance staff while transferring officers to Minneapolis and other cities, leading to a series of violent clashes. Bystander footage of two fatal shootings of … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The detention of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy with his father outside their Minnesota home has become the latest lightning rod for U.S. immigration divisions under the Trump administration. The versions given by government officials and the family’s lawyer and neighbors offer conflicting accounts of whether the parents were given adequate opportunity to … Read more
The officers and agents the Trump administration has unleashed in Minneapolis and nearby communities have moved to stop U.S. citizens seemingly at random, ask for identification and question them about their citizenship, say residents who recorded the encounters on video. The “show me the papers” meetings are popping up on social media and have even … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Liberian man arrested over the weekend after heavily armed immigration agents used a battering ram to break down the front door of his Minneapolis home has regularly checked in with federal authorities for years, his attorney said Tuesday. The arrest of Garrison Gibson, 37, during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota that … Read more
Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that nobody wanted and apparently doesn’t even work as a national ID. But that’s what the federal government has accomplished with REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers insecure, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or legal … Read more