The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…
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The resistance to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis was a courageous response to our nation’s ongoing moral crisis in immigration policy. Acts of civil disobedience over the last couple months have raised public consciousness of corporate collusion with state violence, encouraged people to take risks in defense of their neighbors, and even elevated the role of love in resistance.
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Fascism depends on our compliance. Authoritarians know they cannot sustain rule by individually repressing each person in the country. They use threats and violence to inflict fear — a primary weapon to force compliance. If fear is their strategy for compliance, then we need a strategy for sustaining dissent. Amid Trump’s unjustified and illegal war on Iran, many of us need space to…
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A new poll shows a majority of Americans support calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Economist/YouGov survey, conducted from February 27 through March 2, asked respondents whether they had any confidence in ICE. Only 39 percent said they had a “great deal” or “some” confidence in the agency, while 56 percent said they had “only a little” or “none at all” in ICE to…
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As the US Department of Homeland Security remains partially shut down, DHS chief Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and repeatedly refused to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti, who was recently killed by immigration agents in Minnesota. “Two of my constituents, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who is running for…
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Under Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started appearing ever more like a private militia, unleashing brutal violence against families and displaying sycophantic loyalty to Trump as he mandates the dehumanizing treatment of immigrants. In the days since January, when federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti and 37…
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