Minneapolis, Minnesota — Tear gas filled the air outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on January 9 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers led two demonstrators away in handcuffs. For hours on Friday, caravans of ICE vehicles passed in front of the pop-up protests, carrying immigrants to be processed for deportation. Amid a mass influx of federal immigration agents to…
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The Trump administration’s Department of Labor sparked outcry this weekend after using language on social media that many observers pointed out echoes a phrase commonly used in Nazi propaganda — following months of post after post from the agency espousing white nationalist sentiments. On Saturday, the Labor Department wrote on social media: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
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On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued an order to once again limit congressional visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, just a day after an immigration agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. In a memo, Noem directed ICE to bar congressional visits to ICE detention centers unless they request the visit seven days in advance.
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Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that Americans outraged by the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis should actually be thanking, not criticizing, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who shot the 37-year-old mother of three. In a press conference in the White House the day after Good was killed, Vance repeated the lie that Good hit the officer…
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Minnesota officials said Thursday that the Trump administration has barred them from assisting in the investigation into an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, marking an extreme step in the GOP’s seeming all-out efforts to prevent accountability for the shooter. The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state’s investigations agency…
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A House Democrat has announced that she is moving to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois said on Wednesday that she is planning to introduce articles of impeachment against Noem, who she calls “a disgrace to our democracy.
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