President Donald Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) just hours before she was assaulted on Tuesday evening, with the president mocking her and relishing in violence against Somalis at a campaign rally. As Omar spoke during a town hall on Trump’s militarized raid of Minnesota, a man suddenly lunged at her and sprayed her with an unknown substance in a syringe. Video of the attack…
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin has said that the federal officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been put on administrative leave, marking a reversal from previous statements as the agency faces increased pressure and a funding battle in Congress. News outlets have also cited a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson saying that the…
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Vice President JD Vance has absurdly complained that agents for ICE and other agencies don’t “feel safe” calling 911 as they raid the streets of American cities, apparently shooting and killing people at will. In a post on social media Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reiterated the city’s position that the role of police is not to enforce immigration laws or “hunting down a working…
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Months before ICE agents’ tactics were put in the national spotlight by the deaths of two civilians in Minneapolis, José Castro-Rivera, a young man from Honduras, was hit by a vehicle on a busy interstate highway in Virginia. He was running to escape arrest during what ICE officers described as a “targeted, intelligence-based immigration enforcement operation.” Castro-Rivera, 25…
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Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry filed a formal note of protest on Tuesday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to enter the South American nation’s consulate in Minneapolis before being stopped by a staffer inside the building. In a statement released following the incident, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said an ICE agent “attempted to enter the consulate premises,”…
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