MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration has issued a new order that could lead to the arrest of tens of thousands of refugees who are in the United States legally but do not yet have permanent residency, undoing years of legal and immigration safeguards. A memo filed by the Department of Homeland Security ahead of … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores across the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer to take a public stand against a 5-week immigration crackdown in his home state of Minnesota. ICE Out Minnesota, a coalition of community groups, faith leaders, unions and other critics … 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
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the federal government have until next Thursday to reach an agreement with human rights advocates seeking to ensure the right to counsel for people detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, a judge said Friday. Advocates said people held at the facility on the outskirts of Minneapolis … Read more
A widely covered Minnesota court hearing in which a federal prosecutor told a judge “this job sucks” saw the same judge reveal that “hundreds” of people brought before him for immigration proceedings during Operation Metro Surge have a legal right to live in the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Jerry W. Blackwell said 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
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who led an anti-immigration protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday, just as Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the state. Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post X days after protesters, during Sunday … Read more
