by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo | Jan 16, 2026 | Community organizing, Donald Trump, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kristi Noem, National Lawyers Guild, Op-Ed, Protests, Renee Nicole Good
Renee Nicole Good’s tragic murder in Minneapolis at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has become a turning point in the criminalization of community-based resistance to the Trump administration’s campaign of neo-fascist state repression. Vice President JD Vance has gone so far as to lionize Good’s alleged killer, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 15, 2026 | Fascism, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Minneapolis, News, Renee Nicole Good, Stephen Miller
A federal officer has shot a second person in Minneapolis, just days after Trump immigration hawk Stephen Miller told ICE agents that they have “federal immunity” to act as they like — and that anyone obstructing them will face prosecution from the federal government. In a Fox News segment shared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on X, Miller falsely said that it was a “felony” to…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 15, 2026 | Donald Trump, Fascism, First Amendment, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mahmoud Khalil, News, Palestine
A federal appeals court has reversed a June court decision to release pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, marking a major win for the Trump administration amid its ongoing push to deport him. In a two-to-one decision on Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that the lower federal court did not have jurisdiction over the immigration…
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by Chris Walker | Jan 15, 2026 | Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Insurrection Act, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Renee Nicole Good
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…
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by Truthout | Jan 15, 2026 | Donald Trump, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Polls, Renee Nicole Good
New polling indicates that a majority of Americans believe the killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was not justified, and do not trust the federal government to conduct its own investigation into the matter. A CNN/SSRS poll published on Wednesday shows that 52 percent of Americans believe that the Trump administration’s…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 14, 2026 | Department of Justice, Donald Trump, FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Renee Nicole Good
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say. According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
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