Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is warning that the Trump administration has crossed a “terrifying line” with its use of federal immigration enforcement agents to brutalize and abduct people in his city. In an interview with the New York Times published Saturday, Frey described operations that have taken place in his city as “marauding gangs of guys just walking down the street indiscriminately…
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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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A federal judge has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Minneapolis resident and Ecuadorian immigrant, and his father, who are both being detained in a Texas prison by immigration authorities. Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents earlier this month…
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Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who President Donald Trump frequently relies on to shape immigration policy, was noticeably absent at an important meeting between several administration officials and the president himself on Monday evening. The meeting, which lasted for at least two hours, included Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem…
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As Minnesota residents and people across the U.S. were reeling from the killing of protester Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents on Saturday — the second fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in the city in less than three weeks — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz, telling him it is in his power to “restore the rule of law” in his state.
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As a federal court weighs the legality of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, new polling shows that the American public is deeply skeptical of the White House’s ability to be the sole investigative authority in the latest killing of a Minneapolis resident by immigration agents. According to a YouGov survey conducted on Sunday, only 24 percent of…
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